COTY vs. ELF, NTCOY, IPAR, KVUE, SCI, ACI, PPC, LW, TAP, and SJM
Should you be buying Coty stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Coty include e.l.f. Beauty (ELF), Natura &Co (NTCOY), Inter Parfums (IPAR), Kenvue (KVUE), Service Co. International (SCI), Albertsons Companies (ACI), Pilgrim's Pride (PPC), Lamb Weston (LW), Molson Coors Beverage (TAP), and J. M. Smucker (SJM). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
e.l.f. Beauty (NYSE:ELF) and Coty (NYSE:COTY) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, risk and community ranking.
e.l.f. Beauty has a beta of 1.6, meaning that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Coty has a beta of 1.83, meaning that its share price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500.
e.l.f. Beauty has a net margin of 14.53% compared to e.l.f. Beauty's net margin of 5.39%. Coty's return on equity of 28.98% beat e.l.f. Beauty's return on equity.
In the previous week, e.l.f. Beauty had 4 more articles in the media than Coty. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for e.l.f. Beauty and 10 mentions for Coty. Coty's average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat e.l.f. Beauty's score of 0.32 indicating that e.l.f. Beauty is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Coty has higher revenue and earnings than e.l.f. Beauty. Coty 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.
Coty received 128 more outperform votes than e.l.f. Beauty when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.16% of users gave e.l.f. Beauty an outperform vote while only 54.93% of users gave Coty an outperform vote.
92.4% of e.l.f. Beauty shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.4% of Coty shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.2% of e.l.f. Beauty shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.8% of Coty shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
e.l.f. Beauty presently has a consensus price target of $184.33, indicating a potential upside of 16.50%. Coty has a consensus price target of $13.20, indicating a potential upside of 14.46%. Given Coty's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe e.l.f. Beauty is more favorable than Coty.
Summary
e.l.f. Beauty beats Coty on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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