HLN vs. ULVR, SN, SGE, WHR, CLX, ANP, TPX, PNPL, LEG, and HIK
Should you be buying Haleon stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Haleon include Unilever (ULVR), Smith & Nephew (SN), The Sage Group (SGE), Warehouse REIT (WHR), Calnex Solutions (CLX), Anpario (ANP), TPXimpact (TPX), Pineapple Power (PNPL), Legendary Investments (LEG), and Hikma Pharmaceuticals (HIK).
Haleon (LON:HLN) and Unilever (LON:ULVR) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, valuation and dividends.
Unilever received 1003 more outperform votes than Haleon when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.18% of users gave Unilever an outperform vote while only 29.73% of users gave Haleon an outperform vote.
39.1% of Haleon shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.7% of Unilever shares are owned by institutional investors. 18.3% of Haleon shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Unilever shares are owned 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.
Unilever has a net margin of 11.01% compared to Haleon's net margin of 9.66%. Unilever's return on equity of 32.37% beat Haleon's return on equity.
Haleon has a beta of 0.16, indicating that its stock price is 84% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Unilever has a beta of 0.22, indicating that its stock price is 78% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Haleon presently has a consensus target price of GBX 367.50, indicating a potential downside of 5.70%. Unilever has a consensus target price of GBX 4,665, indicating a potential downside of 6.42%. Given Haleon's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Haleon is more favorable than Unilever.
In the previous week, Unilever had 5 more articles in the media than Haleon. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Unilever and 1 mentions for Haleon. Unilever's average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat Haleon's score of 0.10 indicating that Unilever is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Haleon pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Unilever pays an annual dividend of GBX 147 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Haleon pays out 5,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Unilever pays out 6,621.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Unilever has higher revenue and earnings than Haleon. Unilever is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Haleon, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Unilever beats Haleon on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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