EPC vs. OLPX, WALD, IPAR, NTCOY, GO, DNUT, WLYB, WLY, TR, and ENR
Should you be buying Edgewell Personal Care stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Edgewell Personal Care include Olaplex (OLPX), Waldencast (WALD), Inter Parfums (IPAR), Natura &Co (NTCOY), Grocery Outlet (GO), Krispy Kreme (DNUT), John Wiley & Sons (WLYB), John Wiley & Sons (WLY), Tootsie Roll Industries (TR), and Energizer (ENR). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Olaplex (NASDAQ:OLPX) and Edgewell Personal Care (NYSE:EPC) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, valuation, earnings, community ranking and dividends.
87.4% of Olaplex shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.9% of Edgewell Personal Care shares are held by institutional investors. 4.2% of Olaplex shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of Edgewell Personal Care shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Olaplex currently has a consensus price target of $2.51, suggesting a potential upside of 55.09%. Edgewell Personal Care has a consensus price target of $42.25, suggesting a potential upside of 4.63%. Given Edgewell Personal Care's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Olaplex is more favorable than Edgewell Personal Care.
Edgewell Personal Care received 450 more outperform votes than Olaplex when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.56% of users gave Edgewell Personal Care an outperform vote while only 34.12% of users gave Olaplex an outperform vote.
Olaplex has a beta of 2.34, suggesting that its stock price is 134% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Edgewell Personal Care has a beta of 0.95, suggesting that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Olaplex has a net margin of 10.91% compared to Olaplex's net margin of 5.40%. Edgewell Personal Care's return on equity of 11.61% beat Olaplex's return on equity.
In the previous week, Edgewell Personal Care had 4 more articles in the media than Olaplex. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Edgewell Personal Care and 1 mentions for Olaplex. Olaplex's average media sentiment score of 1.64 beat Edgewell Personal Care's score of 0.63 indicating that Edgewell Personal Care is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Edgewell Personal Care has higher revenue and earnings than Olaplex. Edgewell Personal Care is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Olaplex, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Edgewell Personal Care beats Olaplex on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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