WALD vs. EPC, OLPX, YSG, SHOT, UG, CL, EL, HLN, KVUE, and ELF
Should you be buying Waldencast stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Waldencast include Edgewell Personal Care (EPC), Olaplex (OLPX), Yatsen (YSG), Safety Shot (SHOT), United-Guardian (UG), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Estée Lauder Companies (EL), Haleon (HLN), Kenvue (KVUE), and e.l.f. Beauty (ELF). These companies are all part of the "toilet preparations" industry.
Waldencast (NASDAQ:WALD) and Edgewell Personal Care (NYSE:EPC) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings and profitability.
In the previous week, Waldencast had 6 more articles in the media than Edgewell Personal Care. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Waldencast and 2 mentions for Edgewell Personal Care. Edgewell Personal Care's average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat Waldencast's score of 0.37 indicating that Edgewell Personal Care is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Edgewell Personal Care has a net margin of 5.40% compared to Waldencast's net margin of 0.00%. Edgewell Personal Care's return on equity of 9.29% beat Waldencast's return on equity.
Edgewell Personal Care has higher revenue and earnings than Waldencast.
Edgewell Personal Care received 467 more outperform votes than Waldencast when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 92.86% of users gave Waldencast an outperform vote while only 58.61% of users gave Edgewell Personal Care an outperform vote.
Waldencast currently has a consensus target price of $7.25, indicating a potential upside of 73.44%. Edgewell Personal Care has a consensus target price of $42.25, indicating a potential upside of 15.44%. Given Waldencast's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Waldencast is more favorable than Edgewell Personal Care.
Waldencast has a beta of -0.38, meaning that its share price is 138% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Edgewell Personal Care has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
42.0% of Waldencast shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.9% of Edgewell Personal Care shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.4% of Edgewell Personal Care shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Edgewell Personal Care beats Waldencast on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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