UG vs. SHOT, REV, CL, EL, HLN, KVUE, ELF, COTY, NTCOY, and IPAR
Should you be buying United-Guardian stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of United-Guardian include Safety Shot (SHOT), Revlon (REV), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Estée Lauder Companies (EL), Haleon (HLN), Kenvue (KVUE), e.l.f. Beauty (ELF), Coty (COTY), Natura &Co (NTCOY), and Inter Parfums (IPAR). These companies are all part of the "toilet preparations" industry.
Safety Shot (NASDAQ:SHOT) and United-Guardian (NASDAQ:UG) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and valuation.
In the previous week, Safety Shot had 5 more articles in the media than United-Guardian. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Safety Shot and 4 mentions for United-Guardian. Safety Shot's average media sentiment score of -0.01 beat United-Guardian's score of -0.16 indicating that United-Guardian is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
United-Guardian has higher revenue and earnings than Safety Shot. Safety Shot is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than United-Guardian, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
12.6% of Safety Shot shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 23.2% of United-Guardian shares are held by institutional investors. 23.1% of Safety Shot shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 29.0% of United-Guardian 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.
United-Guardian has a net margin of 23.77% compared to United-Guardian's net margin of -367.77%. Safety Shot's return on equity of 25.18% beat United-Guardian's return on equity.
Safety Shot has a beta of 1.9, indicating that its stock price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, United-Guardian has a beta of 0.69, indicating that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
United-Guardian received 183 more outperform votes than Safety Shot when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
United-Guardian beats Safety Shot on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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