Edgewell Personal Care (EPC) Competitors

Edgewell Personal Care (NYSE:EPC) and e.l.f. Beauty (NYSE:ELF) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations and profitability.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in EPC or ELF?

Edgewell Personal Care received 24 more outperform votes than e.l.f. Beauty when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.43% of users gave e.l.f. Beauty an outperform vote while only 57.59% of users gave Edgewell Personal Care an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Edgewell Personal Care	Outperform Votes 493 57.59%	Underperform Votes 363 42.41%
e.l.f. Beauty	Outperform Votes 469 66.43%	Underperform Votes 237 33.57%

Do analysts rate EPC or ELF?

Edgewell Personal Care presently has a consensus target price of $33.00, suggesting a potential upside of 16.40%. e.l.f. Beauty has a consensus target price of $112.47, suggesting a potential upside of 38.03%. Given e.l.f. Beauty's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe e.l.f. Beauty is more favorable than Edgewell Personal Care.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Edgewell Personal Care	1 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.43
e.l.f. Beauty	0 Sell rating(s)	5 Hold rating(s)	11 Buy rating(s)	2 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.83

Which has higher earnings and valuation, EPC or ELF?

e.l.f. Beauty has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Edgewell Personal Care. Edgewell Personal Care 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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Edgewell Personal Care	$2.22B	0.60	$98.60M	$1.71	16.58
e.l.f. Beauty	$1.30B	3.53	$127.66M	$1.69	48.21

Do insiders and institutionals have more ownership in EPC or ELF?

91.9% of Edgewell Personal Care shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.4% of e.l.f. Beauty shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.0% of Edgewell Personal Care shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.5% of e.l.f. Beauty 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.

Which has more volatility and risk, EPC or ELF?

Edgewell Personal Care has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, e.l.f. Beauty has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Is EPC or ELF more profitable?

e.l.f. Beauty has a net margin of 7.55% compared to Edgewell Personal Care's net margin of 4.09%. e.l.f. Beauty's return on equity of 16.88% beat Edgewell Personal Care's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Edgewell Personal Care	4.09%	9.29%	3.87%
e.l.f. Beauty	7.55%	16.88%	9.92%

Does the media prefer EPC or ELF?

In the previous week, e.l.f. Beauty had 7 more articles in the media than Edgewell Personal Care. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for e.l.f. Beauty and 12 mentions for Edgewell Personal Care. Edgewell Personal Care's average media sentiment score of 1.52 beat e.l.f. Beauty's score of 1.42 indicating that Edgewell Personal Care is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Edgewell Personal Care	10 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive
e.l.f. Beauty	15 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

e.l.f. Beauty beats Edgewell Personal Care on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.