WALD vs. YSG, OLPX, EPC, NUS, AFRI, UNFI, OTLY, HAIN, EWCZ, and LVRO
Should you be buying Waldencast stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Waldencast include Yatsen (YSG), Olaplex (OLPX), Edgewell Personal Care (EPC), Nu Skin Enterprises (NUS), Forafric Global (AFRI), United Natural Foods (UNFI), Oatly Group (OTLY), The Hain Celestial Group (HAIN), European Wax Center (EWCZ), and Lavoro (LVRO). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Yatsen (NYSE:YSG) and Waldencast (NASDAQ:WALD) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.
In the previous week, Waldencast had 4 more articles in the media than Yatsen. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Waldencast and 0 mentions for Yatsen. Yatsen's average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat Waldencast's score of 0.00 indicating that Waldencast is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
42.0% of Waldencast shares are owned by institutional investors. 29.0% of Yatsen shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.9% of Waldencast shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Waldencast has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Waldencast's net margin of -21.70%. Yatsen's return on equity of 0.00% beat Waldencast's return on equity.
Waldencast has a consensus price target of $10.00, suggesting a potential upside of 86.57%. Given Yatsen's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Waldencast is more favorable than Yatsen.
Yatsen has higher revenue and earnings than Waldencast.
Yatsen has a beta of -2.19, indicating that its stock price is 319% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Waldencast has a beta of -0.53, indicating that its stock price is 153% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Waldencast received 1 more outperform votes than Yatsen when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 90.00% of users gave Waldencast an outperform vote while only 36.36% of users gave Yatsen an outperform vote.
Summary
Waldencast beats Yatsen on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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