EL vs. PBH, IPAR, HLF, USNA, NUS, NATR, MED, VERU, CL, and HLN
Should you be buying Estée Lauder Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Estée Lauder Companies include Prestige Consumer Healthcare (PBH), Inter Parfums (IPAR), Herbalife (HLF), USANA Health Sciences (USNA), Nu Skin Enterprises (NUS), Nature's Sunshine Products (NATR), Medifast (MED), Veru (VERU), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), and Haleon (HLN).
Estée Lauder Companies vs.
Prestige Consumer Healthcare (NYSE:PBH) and Estée Lauder Companies (NYSE:EL) are both medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
Prestige Consumer Healthcare has a beta of 0.44, meaning that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Estée Lauder Companies has a beta of 1.12, meaning that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Estée Lauder Companies received 701 more outperform votes than Prestige Consumer Healthcare when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.14% of users gave Prestige Consumer Healthcare an outperform vote while only 67.63% of users gave Estée Lauder Companies an outperform vote.
Estée Lauder Companies has higher revenue and earnings than Prestige Consumer Healthcare. Estée Lauder Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Prestige Consumer Healthcare, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Prestige Consumer Healthcare pays an annual dividend of $1.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Estée Lauder Companies pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Prestige Consumer Healthcare pays out 44.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Estée Lauder Companies pays out -57.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
In the previous week, Estée Lauder Companies had 20 more articles in the media than Prestige Consumer Healthcare. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Estée Lauder Companies and 9 mentions for Prestige Consumer Healthcare. Prestige Consumer Healthcare's average media sentiment score of 1.31 beat Estée Lauder Companies' score of 1.25 indicating that Prestige Consumer Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Prestige Consumer Healthcare presently has a consensus target price of $93.33, indicating a potential upside of 9.95%. Estée Lauder Companies has a consensus target price of $75.20, indicating a potential upside of 16.65%. Given Estée Lauder Companies' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Estée Lauder Companies is more favorable than Prestige Consumer Healthcare.
99.9% of Prestige Consumer Healthcare shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.2% of Estée Lauder Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of Prestige Consumer Healthcare shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.8% of Estée Lauder Companies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Prestige Consumer Healthcare has a net margin of 19.13% compared to Estée Lauder Companies' net margin of -4.61%. Estée Lauder Companies' return on equity of 16.82% beat Prestige Consumer Healthcare's return on equity.
Summary
Prestige Consumer Healthcare and Estée Lauder Companies tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:EL) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff