EPC vs. OLPX, WALD, IPAR, NTCOY, THS, MGPI, KLG, ENR, WLYB, and WLY
Should you be buying Edgewell Personal Care stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Edgewell Personal Care include Olaplex (OLPX), Waldencast (WALD), Inter Parfums (IPAR), Natura &Co (NTCOY), TreeHouse Foods (THS), MGP Ingredients (MGPI), WK Kellogg (KLG), Energizer (ENR), John Wiley & Sons (WLYB), and John Wiley & Sons (WLY). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Edgewell Personal Care (NYSE:EPC) and Olaplex (NASDAQ:OLPX) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, risk and analyst recommendations.
Edgewell Personal Care has higher revenue and earnings than Olaplex. Olaplex is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Edgewell Personal Care, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Edgewell Personal Care presently has a consensus price target of $37.67, indicating a potential upside of 0.63%. Olaplex has a consensus price target of $2.59, indicating a potential upside of 93.62%. Given Olaplex's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Olaplex is more favorable than Edgewell Personal Care.
In the previous week, Olaplex had 6 more articles in the media than Edgewell Personal Care. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Olaplex and 3 mentions for Edgewell Personal Care. Edgewell Personal Care's average media sentiment score of 1.88 beat Olaplex's score of 0.05 indicating that Edgewell Personal Care is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Edgewell Personal Care has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Olaplex has a beta of 2.28, meaning that its share price is 128% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Edgewell Personal Care received 449 more outperform votes than Olaplex when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.58% of users gave Edgewell Personal Care an outperform vote while only 34.52% of users gave Olaplex an outperform vote.
Olaplex has a net margin of 13.44% compared to Edgewell Personal Care's net margin of 4.66%. Olaplex's return on equity of 13.09% beat Edgewell Personal Care's return on equity.
91.9% of Edgewell Personal Care shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.4% of Olaplex shares are held by institutional investors. 2.4% of Edgewell Personal Care shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.1% of Olaplex shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Olaplex beats Edgewell Personal Care on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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