ELF vs. COTY, NTCOY, IPAR, KVUE, PPC, ARMK, COKE, SCI, INGR, and NYT
Should you be buying e.l.f. Beauty stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of e.l.f. Beauty include Coty (COTY), Natura &Co (NTCOY), Inter Parfums (IPAR), Kenvue (KVUE), Pilgrim's Pride (PPC), Aramark (ARMK), Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE), Service Co. International (SCI), Ingredion (INGR), and New York Times (NYT). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
e.l.f. Beauty (NYSE:ELF) and Coty (NYSE:COTY) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.
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.
In the previous week, e.l.f. Beauty and e.l.f. Beauty both had 10 articles in the media. e.l.f. Beauty's average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat Coty's score of 0.16 indicating that e.l.f. Beauty is being referred to more favorably in the media.
e.l.f. Beauty has a beta of 1.6, meaning that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Coty has a beta of 1.83, meaning that its stock price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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 presently has a consensus price target of $184.33, suggesting a potential upside of 15.12%. Coty has a consensus price target of $13.20, suggesting a potential upside of 13.77%. Given e.l.f. Beauty's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe e.l.f. Beauty is more favorable than Coty.
92.4% of e.l.f. Beauty shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.4% of Coty shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.2% of e.l.f. Beauty shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.8% of Coty shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
e.l.f. Beauty has a net margin of 14.53% compared to Coty's net margin of 5.39%. e.l.f. Beauty's return on equity of 28.98% beat Coty's return on equity.
Summary
e.l.f. Beauty beats Coty on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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