ELF vs. COTY, NTCOY, IPAR, COKE, ARMK, PPC, NYT, INGR, SCI, and DAR Should you be buying e.l.f. Beauty stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of e.l.f. Beauty include Coty (COTY), Natura &Co (NTCOY), Inter Parfums (IPAR), Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE), Aramark (ARMK), Pilgrim's Pride (PPC), New York Times (NYT), Ingredion (INGR), Service Co. International (SCI), and Darling Ingredients (DAR). 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 stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk and valuation.
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.
In the previous week, e.l.f. Beauty had 11 more articles in the media than Coty. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for e.l.f. Beauty and 7 mentions for Coty. Coty's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat e.l.f. Beauty's score of 0.12 indicating that e.l.f. Beauty is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Coty presently has a consensus price target of $13.21, suggesting a potential upside of 23.93%. e.l.f. Beauty has a consensus price target of $183.33, suggesting a potential upside of 15.70%. Given e.l.f. Beauty's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Coty is more favorable than e.l.f. Beauty.
Coty has a beta of 1.83, indicating that its share price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, e.l.f. Beauty has a beta of 1.6, indicating that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
42.4% of Coty shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.4% of e.l.f. Beauty shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.8% of Coty shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.2% of e.l.f. Beauty shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
e.l.f. Beauty has a net margin of 14.53% compared to e.l.f. Beauty's net margin of 3.59%. Coty's return on equity of 28.98% beat e.l.f. Beauty's return on equity.
Summary e.l.f. Beauty beats Coty on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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