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ELF vs. LW, KVUE, SN, COTY, ODD, IMAX, MBC, LVWR, FOXF, and EPC

Should you be buying e.l.f. Beauty stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of e.l.f. Beauty include Lamb Weston (LW), Kenvue (KVUE), SharkNinja (SN), Coty (COTY), ODDITY Tech (ODD), IMAX (IMAX), MasterBrand (MBC), LiveWire Group (LVWR), Fox Factory (FOXF), and Edgewell Personal Care (EPC).

e.l.f. Beauty vs. Its Competitors

Lamb Weston (NYSE:LW) and e.l.f. Beauty (NYSE:ELF) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.

Lamb Weston has higher revenue and earnings than e.l.f. Beauty. Lamb Weston is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than e.l.f. Beauty, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Lamb Weston$6.45B1.40$357.20M$2.0930.94
e.l.f. Beauty$1.31B5.58$112.09M$1.7072.69

Lamb Weston has a beta of 0.52, indicating that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, e.l.f. Beauty has a beta of 1.57, indicating that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Lamb Weston presently has a consensus price target of $65.70, indicating a potential upside of 1.59%. e.l.f. Beauty has a consensus price target of $142.73, indicating a potential upside of 15.50%. Given e.l.f. Beauty's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe e.l.f. Beauty is more favorable than Lamb Weston.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Lamb Weston
1 Sell rating(s)
8 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.36
e.l.f. Beauty
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
12 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.82

In the previous week, e.l.f. Beauty had 1 more articles in the media than Lamb Weston. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for e.l.f. Beauty and 20 mentions for Lamb Weston. e.l.f. Beauty's average media sentiment score of 1.32 beat Lamb Weston's score of 0.82 indicating that e.l.f. Beauty is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Lamb Weston
9 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
e.l.f. Beauty
15 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

89.6% of Lamb Weston shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.4% of e.l.f. Beauty shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Lamb Weston shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.9% of e.l.f. Beauty shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

e.l.f. Beauty has a net margin of 7.29% compared to Lamb Weston's net margin of 4.56%. Lamb Weston's return on equity of 28.08% beat e.l.f. Beauty's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Lamb Weston4.56% 28.08% 6.47%
e.l.f. Beauty 7.29%16.36%9.89%

Summary

e.l.f. Beauty beats Lamb Weston on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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ELF vs. The Competition

Metrice.l.f. BeautyCOSMETICS&TLTRS IndustryStaples SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$7.54B$3.61B$16.09B$21.97B
Dividend YieldN/A2.37%3.23%3.62%
P/E Ratio72.7017.8917.4732.44
Price / Sales5.583.0947.0579.67
Price / Cash39.1018.3514.5824.33
Price / Book9.164.177.194.60
Net Income$112.09M-$103.99M$675.36M$1.02B
7 Day Performance-8.86%-0.68%2.03%0.53%
1 Month Performance-9.27%5.57%-0.65%-0.49%
1 Year Performance17.08%-17.44%-0.91%11.60%

e.l.f. Beauty Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ELF
e.l.f. Beauty
4.6744 of 5 stars
$123.58
-2.8%
$142.73
+15.5%
+15.9%$7.54B$1.31B72.70300Positive News
Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
LW
Lamb Weston
4.3058 of 5 stars
$65.72
+1.1%
$65.70
0.0%
-16.3%$9.16B$6.45B31.4510,100Analyst Upgrade
KVUE
Kenvue
4.4622 of 5 stars
$15.08
-1.4%
$21.18
+40.5%
-33.7%$28.95B$15.46B20.3922,000
SN
SharkNinja
3.8501 of 5 stars
$93.02
-1.0%
$130.00
+39.8%
-16.7%$13.12B$5.53B25.403,688Positive News
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
COTY
Coty
4.3956 of 5 stars
$4.14
-4.7%
$6.06
+46.6%
-44.5%$3.61B$5.89B-9.4011,636Trending News
ODD
ODDITY Tech
2.5925 of 5 stars
$51.36
+1.0%
$73.90
+43.9%
+25.4%$2.86B$647.04M28.49342Positive News
IMAX
IMAX
3.5189 of 5 stars
$32.49
+0.8%
$35.10
+8.0%
+55.6%$1.75B$352.21M54.12780Trending News
Analyst Revision
MBC
MasterBrand
1.2059 of 5 stars
$12.96
+1.6%
$15.00
+15.8%
-30.7%$1.64B$2.70B17.9813,000
LVWR
LiveWire Group
0.0156 of 5 stars
$5.80
+12.2%
N/A-0.1%$1.18B$26.63M-14.44220
FOXF
Fox Factory
3.4348 of 5 stars
$23.03
+1.9%
$33.00
+43.3%
-36.9%$962.65M$1.39B-3.814,100
EPC
Edgewell Personal Care
4.2208 of 5 stars
$20.03
-1.2%
$26.33
+31.5%
-42.1%$930.87M$2.25B14.846,700Positive News

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