YSG vs. OLPX, WALD, SHOT, UG, CL, EL, HLN, KVUE, ELF, and COTY
Should you be buying Yatsen stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Yatsen include Olaplex (OLPX), Waldencast (WALD), Safety Shot (SHOT), United-Guardian (UG), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Estée Lauder Companies (EL), Haleon (HLN), Kenvue (KVUE), e.l.f. Beauty (ELF), and Coty (COTY). These companies are all part of the "toilet preparations" industry.
Yatsen (NYSE:YSG) and Olaplex (NASDAQ:OLPX) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation and media sentiment.
In the previous week, Yatsen had 4 more articles in the media than Olaplex. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Yatsen and 6 mentions for Olaplex. Olaplex's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Yatsen's score of -0.28 indicating that Olaplex is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
87.4% of Olaplex shares are owned by institutional investors. 29.0% of Yatsen shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of Olaplex shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Olaplex has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Yatsen. Yatsen is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Olaplex, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Yatsen has a beta of -2.73, suggesting that its share price is 373% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Olaplex has a beta of 2.34, suggesting that its share price is 134% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Olaplex received 21 more outperform votes than Yatsen when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 36.36% of users gave Yatsen an outperform vote while only 34.12% of users gave Olaplex an outperform vote.
Olaplex has a consensus price target of $2.51, suggesting a potential upside of 59.02%. Given Olaplex's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Olaplex is more favorable than Yatsen.
Olaplex has a net margin of 10.91% compared to Yatsen's net margin of -27.06%. Olaplex's return on equity of 11.61% beat Yatsen's return on equity.
Summary
Olaplex beats Yatsen on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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