ELF vs. COTY, NTCOY, IPAR, COKE, PPC, SCI, ARMK, INGR, NYT, and DAR
Should you be buying e.l.f. Beauty stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of e.l.f. Beauty include Coty (COTY), Natura &Co (NTCOY), Inter Parfums (IPAR), Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE), Pilgrim's Pride (PPC), Service Co. International (SCI), Aramark (ARMK), Ingredion (INGR), New York Times (NYT), and Darling Ingredients (DAR). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Coty (NYSE:COTY) and e.l.f. Beauty (NYSE:ELF) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, valuation and profitability.
Coty has a beta of 1.83, indicating that its share price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, e.l.f. Beauty has a beta of 1.6, indicating that its share price is 60% 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.
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 129 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 54.98% of users gave Coty an outperform vote.
Coty presently has a consensus target price of $13.21, suggesting a potential upside of 16.29%. e.l.f. Beauty has a consensus target price of $184.33, suggesting a potential upside of 11.06%. Given e.l.f. Beauty's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Coty is more favorable than e.l.f. Beauty.
42.4% of Coty shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.4% of e.l.f. Beauty shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.8% of Coty shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.2% of e.l.f. Beauty shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Coty had 31 more articles in the media than e.l.f. Beauty. MarketBeat recorded 42 mentions for Coty and 11 mentions for e.l.f. Beauty. Coty's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat e.l.f. Beauty's score of 0.39 indicating that e.l.f. Beauty is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
e.l.f. Beauty beats Coty on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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