IPAR vs. PBH, EPC, HLF, USNA, NUS, NATR, MED, REV, VERU, and EL
Should you be buying Inter Parfums stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Inter Parfums include Prestige Consumer Healthcare (PBH), Edgewell Personal Care (EPC), Herbalife (HLF), USANA Health Sciences (USNA), Nu Skin Enterprises (NUS), Nature's Sunshine Products (NATR), Medifast (MED), Revlon (REV), Veru (VERU), and Estée Lauder Companies (EL).
Prestige Consumer Healthcare (NYSE:PBH) and Inter Parfums (NASDAQ:IPAR) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and risk.
99.9% of Prestige Consumer Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.6% of Inter Parfums shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of Prestige Consumer Healthcare shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 43.9% of Inter Parfums shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Prestige Consumer Healthcare has a net margin of 18.60% compared to Prestige Consumer Healthcare's net margin of 10.50%. Prestige Consumer Healthcare's return on equity of 15.85% beat Inter Parfums' return on equity.
Prestige Consumer Healthcare received 38 more outperform votes than Inter Parfums when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.70% of users gave Prestige Consumer Healthcare an outperform vote while only 64.32% of users gave Inter Parfums an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Inter Parfums had 5 more articles in the media than Prestige Consumer Healthcare. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Inter Parfums and 1 mentions for Prestige Consumer Healthcare. Inter Parfums' average media sentiment score of 1.91 beat Prestige Consumer Healthcare's score of 0.58 indicating that Prestige Consumer Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Prestige Consumer Healthcare has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Inter Parfums. Prestige Consumer Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Inter Parfums, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Prestige Consumer Healthcare currently has a consensus target price of $91.25, suggesting a potential upside of 41.89%. Inter Parfums has a consensus target price of $178.67, suggesting a potential upside of 49.16%. Given Prestige Consumer Healthcare's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Inter Parfums is more favorable than Prestige Consumer Healthcare.
Prestige Consumer Healthcare has a beta of 0.53, indicating that its stock price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Inter Parfums has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Prestige Consumer Healthcare pays an annual dividend of $1.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Inter Parfums pays an annual dividend of $3.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Prestige Consumer Healthcare pays out 45.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Inter Parfums pays out 69.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Inter Parfums has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Prestige Consumer Healthcare is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Inter Parfums beats Prestige Consumer Healthcare on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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