ELF vs. HLN, KVUE, COTY, NTCOY, IPAR, ODD, EPC, OLPX, WALD, and YSG
Should you be buying e.l.f. Beauty stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of e.l.f. Beauty include Haleon (HLN), Kenvue (KVUE), Coty (COTY), Natura &Co (NTCOY), Inter Parfums (IPAR), Oddity Tech (ODD), Edgewell Personal Care (EPC), Olaplex (OLPX), Waldencast (WALD), and Yatsen (YSG). These companies are all part of the "toilet preparations" industry.
e.l.f. Beauty (NYSE:ELF) and Haleon (NYSE:HLN) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, earnings and media sentiment.
Haleon has higher revenue and earnings than e.l.f. Beauty. Haleon 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.
e.l.f. Beauty has a net margin of 12.47% compared to Haleon's net margin of 9.68%. e.l.f. Beauty's return on equity of 26.64% beat Haleon's return on equity.
In the previous week, e.l.f. Beauty had 38 more articles in the media than Haleon. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for e.l.f. Beauty and 2 mentions for Haleon. e.l.f. Beauty's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Haleon's score of 0.57 indicating that e.l.f. Beauty is being referred to more favorably in the media.
e.l.f. Beauty has a beta of 1.6, indicating that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Haleon has a beta of 0.28, indicating that its stock price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500.
e.l.f. Beauty received 397 more outperform votes than Haleon when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.45% of users gave e.l.f. Beauty an outperform vote while only 39.29% of users gave Haleon an outperform vote.
e.l.f. Beauty presently has a consensus price target of $184.54, suggesting a potential upside of 0.36%. Given e.l.f. Beauty's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe e.l.f. Beauty is more favorable than Haleon.
92.4% of e.l.f. Beauty shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.7% of Haleon shares are held by institutional investors. 5.2% of e.l.f. Beauty shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
e.l.f. Beauty beats Haleon on 17 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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