WALD vs. YSG, OLPX, EPC, DJCO, BYND, LND, CVGW, CRESY, TPB, and UNFI
Should you be buying Waldencast stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Waldencast include Yatsen (YSG), Olaplex (OLPX), Edgewell Personal Care (EPC), Daily Journal (DJCO), Beyond Meat (BYND), BrasilAgro - Companhia Brasileira de Propriedades Agrícolas (LND), Calavo Growers (CVGW), Cresud Sociedad Anónima, Comercial, Inmobiliaria, Financiera y Agropecuaria (CRESY), Turning Point Brands (TPB), and United Natural Foods (UNFI). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Yatsen (NYSE:YSG) and Waldencast (NASDAQ:WALD) 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 profitability, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, dividends and media sentiment.
Waldencast has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Waldencast's net margin of -21.70%. Yatsen's return on equity of 0.00% beat Waldencast's return on equity.
Yatsen has a beta of -2.73, meaning that its stock price is 373% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Waldencast has a beta of -0.38, meaning that its stock price is 138% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Waldencast has a consensus target price of $8.00, suggesting a potential upside of 83.91%. Given Yatsen's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Waldencast is more favorable than Yatsen.
Waldencast received 3 more outperform votes than Yatsen when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 91.67% of users gave Waldencast an outperform vote while only 36.36% of users gave Yatsen an outperform vote.
42.0% of Waldencast shares are held by institutional investors. 29.0% of Yatsen shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.9% of Waldencast shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Waldencast has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Yatsen.
In the previous week, Yatsen and Yatsen both had 3 articles in the media. Yatsen's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Waldencast's score of 0.48 indicating that Waldencast is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Waldencast beats Yatsen on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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