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.
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.
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.
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.
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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This page (NYSE:ELF) was last updated on 10/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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