COTY vs. ELF, NTCOY, IPAR, SCI, PPC, COKE, ARMK, NYT, INGR, and ACI Should you be buying Coty stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Coty include e.l.f. Beauty (ELF), Natura &Co (NTCOY), Inter Parfums (IPAR), Service Co. International (SCI), Pilgrim's Pride (PPC), Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE), Aramark (ARMK), New York Times (NYT), Ingredion (INGR), and Albertsons Companies (ACI). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Coty (NYSE:COTY ) and e.l.f. Beauty (NYSE:ELF ) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.
Coty received 128 more outperform votes than e.l.f. Beauty when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.22% of users gave e.l.f. Beauty an outperform vote while only 54.98% of users gave Coty an outperform vote.
e.l.f. Beauty has a net margin of 14.53% compared to Coty's net margin of 3.59%. e.l.f. Beauty's return on equity of 28.98% beat Coty's return on equity.
Coty currently has a consensus target price of $13.21, suggesting a potential upside of 23.93%. e.l.f. Beauty has a consensus target price of $183.33, suggesting a potential upside of 15.70%. Given Coty's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Coty is more favorable than e.l.f. Beauty.
In the previous week, e.l.f. Beauty had 10 more articles in the media than Coty. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for e.l.f. Beauty and 7 mentions for Coty. e.l.f. Beauty's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Coty's score of 0.12 indicating that e.l.f. Beauty is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Coty has a beta of 1.83, indicating that its stock price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, e.l.f. Beauty has a beta of 1.6, indicating that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.
42.4% of Coty shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.4% of e.l.f. Beauty shares are held by institutional investors. 5.8% of Coty shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.2% of e.l.f. Beauty shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Coty has higher revenue and earnings than e.l.f. Beauty. Coty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than e.l.f. Beauty, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary e.l.f. Beauty beats Coty on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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