COTY vs. ELF, NTCOY, IPAR, KVUE, SCI, ACI, LW, USFD, PPC, and SJM
Should you be buying Coty stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Coty include e.l.f. Beauty (ELF), Natura &Co (NTCOY), Inter Parfums (IPAR), Kenvue (KVUE), Service Co. International (SCI), Albertsons Companies (ACI), Lamb Weston (LW), US Foods (USFD), Pilgrim's Pride (PPC), and J. M. Smucker (SJM). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
e.l.f. Beauty (NYSE:ELF) and Coty (NYSE:COTY) are both consumer defensive companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and community ranking.
Coty received 128 more outperform votes than e.l.f. Beauty when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.16% of users gave e.l.f. Beauty an outperform vote while only 54.93% of users gave Coty an outperform vote.
e.l.f. Beauty has a beta of 1.57, suggesting that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Coty has a beta of 1.82, suggesting that its stock price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, e.l.f. Beauty had 10 more articles in the media than Coty. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for e.l.f. Beauty and 10 mentions for Coty. Coty's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat e.l.f. Beauty's score of 0.53 indicating that e.l.f. Beauty is being referred to more favorably in the media.
e.l.f. Beauty presently has a consensus target price of $184.33, indicating a potential upside of 2.62%. Coty has a consensus target price of $13.19, indicating a potential upside of 15.06%. Given e.l.f. Beauty's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Coty is more favorable than e.l.f. Beauty.
e.l.f. Beauty has a net margin of 14.53% compared to e.l.f. Beauty's net margin of 5.39%. Coty's return on equity of 28.98% beat e.l.f. Beauty's return on equity.
92.4% of e.l.f. Beauty shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.4% of Coty shares are held by institutional investors. 5.2% of e.l.f. Beauty shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.8% of Coty shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
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.
Summary
e.l.f. Beauty beats Coty on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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