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.
Haleon (NYSE:HLN) and e.l.f. Beauty (NYSE:ELF) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, institutional ownership and analyst recommendations.
6.7% of Haleon shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.4% of e.l.f. Beauty shares are held by institutional investors. 5.2% of e.l.f. Beauty shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
e.l.f. Beauty received 396 more outperform votes than Haleon when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.40% of users gave e.l.f. Beauty an outperform vote while only 39.29% of users gave Haleon an outperform vote.
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 e.l.f. Beauty's net margin of 9.68%. Haleon's return on equity of 26.64% beat e.l.f. Beauty's return on equity.
In the previous week, e.l.f. Beauty had 56 more articles in the media than Haleon. MarketBeat recorded 57 mentions for e.l.f. Beauty and 1 mentions for Haleon. Haleon's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat e.l.f. Beauty's score of 0.36 indicating that e.l.f. Beauty is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
e.l.f. Beauty has a consensus target price of $183.77, indicating a potential downside of 0.50%. Given Haleon's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe e.l.f. Beauty is more favorable than Haleon.
Haleon has a beta of 0.28, meaning that its stock price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, e.l.f. Beauty has a beta of 1.6, meaning that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
e.l.f. Beauty beats Haleon on 17 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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