HLN vs. CL, EL, KVUE, ELF, COTY, NTCOY, IPAR, ODD, EPC, and OLPX
Should you be buying Haleon stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Haleon include Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Estée Lauder Companies (EL), Kenvue (KVUE), e.l.f. Beauty (ELF), Coty (COTY), Natura &Co (NTCOY), Inter Parfums (IPAR), Oddity Tech (ODD), Edgewell Personal Care (EPC), and Olaplex (OLPX). These companies are all part of the "toilet preparations" industry.
Haleon (NYSE:HLN) and Colgate-Palmolive (NYSE:CL) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Colgate-Palmolive has a consensus target price of $92.94, indicating a potential upside of 1.82%. Given Colgate-Palmolive's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Colgate-Palmolive is more favorable than Haleon.
Haleon pays an annual dividend of $0.21 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Colgate-Palmolive pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Haleon pays out 70.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Colgate-Palmolive pays out 63.3% 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.
Colgate-Palmolive has a net margin of 13.22% compared to Haleon's net margin of 9.68%. Colgate-Palmolive's return on equity of 485.40% beat Haleon's return on equity.
Colgate-Palmolive received 519 more outperform votes than Haleon when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 50.33% of users gave Colgate-Palmolive an outperform vote while only 39.29% of users gave Haleon an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Colgate-Palmolive had 7 more articles in the media than Haleon. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Colgate-Palmolive and 2 mentions for Haleon. Colgate-Palmolive's average media sentiment score of 1.09 beat Haleon's score of 0.57 indicating that Colgate-Palmolive is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Colgate-Palmolive has higher revenue and earnings than Haleon. Haleon is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Colgate-Palmolive, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
6.7% of Haleon shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.4% of Colgate-Palmolive shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Colgate-Palmolive shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Haleon has a beta of 0.28, suggesting that its stock price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Colgate-Palmolive has a beta of 0.4, suggesting that its stock price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Colgate-Palmolive beats Haleon on 19 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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