OLPX vs. WALD, YSG, EPC, HELE, IPAR, LESL, SCHL, BRCC, WEST, and AGRO
Should you be buying Olaplex stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Olaplex include Waldencast (WALD), Yatsen (YSG), Edgewell Personal Care (EPC), Helen of Troy (HELE), Inter Parfums (IPAR), Leslie's (LESL), Scholastic (SCHL), BRC (BRCC), Westrock Coffee (WEST), and Adecoagro (AGRO). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Waldencast (NASDAQ:WALD) and Olaplex (NASDAQ:OLPX) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends and community ranking.
42.0% of Waldencast shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.4% of Olaplex shares are held by institutional investors. 5.9% of Waldencast shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of Olaplex shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Olaplex has a net margin of 10.91% compared to Olaplex's net margin of 0.00%. Waldencast's return on equity of 11.61% beat Olaplex's return on equity.
Olaplex has higher revenue and earnings than Waldencast.
Olaplex received 18 more outperform votes than Waldencast when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 91.67% of users gave Waldencast an outperform vote while only 34.12% of users gave Olaplex an outperform vote.
Waldencast presently has a consensus target price of $8.00, indicating a potential upside of 83.91%. Olaplex has a consensus target price of $2.51, indicating a potential upside of 55.09%. Given Olaplex's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Waldencast is more favorable than Olaplex.
Waldencast has a beta of -0.38, suggesting that its share price is 138% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Olaplex has a beta of 2.34, suggesting that its share price is 134% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Waldencast had 2 more articles in the media than Olaplex. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Waldencast and 1 mentions for Olaplex. Olaplex's average media sentiment score of 1.55 beat Waldencast's score of 0.63 indicating that Waldencast is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Olaplex beats Waldencast on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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