ELF vs. COTY, NTCOY, IPAR, COKE, ARMK, PPC, NYT, INGR, SCI, 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), Aramark (ARMK), Pilgrim's Pride (PPC), New York Times (NYT), Ingredion (INGR), Service Co. International (SCI), and Darling Ingredients (DAR). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
e.l.f. Beauty (NYSE:ELF) and Coty (NYSE:COTY) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations and risk.
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 insiders. Comparatively, 5.8% of Coty shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
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, 64.22% of users gave e.l.f. Beauty an outperform vote while only 54.98% of users gave Coty an outperform vote.
In the previous week, e.l.f. Beauty had 13 more articles in the media than Coty. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for e.l.f. Beauty and 7 mentions for Coty. e.l.f. Beauty's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Coty's score of -0.07 indicating that e.l.f. Beauty is being referred to more favorably in the media.
e.l.f. Beauty has a beta of 1.6, suggesting that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Coty has a beta of 1.83, suggesting that its share price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500.
e.l.f. Beauty currently has a consensus target price of $183.33, suggesting a potential upside of 15.70%. Coty has a consensus target price of $13.21, suggesting a potential upside of 23.93%. Given Coty's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Coty is more favorable than e.l.f. Beauty.
e.l.f. Beauty has a net margin of 14.53% compared to Coty's net margin of 3.59%. e.l.f. Beauty's return on equity of 28.98% beat Coty's return on equity.
Summary
e.l.f. Beauty beats Coty on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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