Estée Lauder Companies (EL) Competitors

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.

Which has more volatility and risk, PBH or EL?

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.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer PBH or EL?

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.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Prestige Consumer Healthcare	Outperform Votes 498 70.14%	Underperform Votes 212 29.86%
Estée Lauder Companies	Outperform Votes 1199 67.63%	Underperform Votes 574 32.37%

Which has higher valuation & earnings, PBH or EL?

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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Prestige Consumer Healthcare	$1.14B	3.69	$209.34M	$4.29	19.79
Estée Lauder Companies	$14.79B	1.57	$390M	-$2.42	-26.64

Is PBH or EL a better dividend stock?

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.

Does the media refer more to PBH or EL?

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.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Prestige Consumer Healthcare	7 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Estée Lauder Companies	24 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	3 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Do analysts rate PBH or EL?

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.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Prestige Consumer Healthcare	0 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50
Estée Lauder Companies	0 Sell rating(s)	18 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.18

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of PBH or EL?

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.

Is PBH or EL more profitable?

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.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Prestige Consumer Healthcare	19.13%	12.36%	6.39%
Estée Lauder Companies	-4.61%	16.82%	4.00%

Summary

Prestige Consumer Healthcare and Estée Lauder Companies tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.