COTY vs. ELF, NTCOY, IPAR, ODD, EPC, OLPX, WALD, YSG, SHOT, and UG
Should you be buying Coty stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Coty include e.l.f. Beauty (ELF), Natura &Co (NTCOY), Inter Parfums (IPAR), Oddity Tech (ODD), Edgewell Personal Care (EPC), Olaplex (OLPX), Waldencast (WALD), Yatsen (YSG), Safety Shot (SHOT), and United-Guardian (UG). These companies are all part of the "toilet preparations" industry.
Coty (NYSE:COTY) and e.l.f. Beauty (NYSE:ELF) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk, valuation and profitability.
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 hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Coty has a beta of 1.83, suggesting that its share price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, e.l.f. Beauty has a beta of 1.6, suggesting that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, e.l.f. Beauty had 14 more articles in the media than Coty. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for e.l.f. Beauty and 6 mentions for Coty. e.l.f. Beauty's average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat Coty's score of 0.91 indicating that e.l.f. Beauty is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Coty received 122 more outperform votes than e.l.f. Beauty when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.45% of users gave e.l.f. Beauty an outperform vote while only 54.98% of users gave Coty an outperform vote.
Coty currently has a consensus target price of $13.21, suggesting a potential upside of 27.52%. e.l.f. Beauty has a consensus target price of $184.54, suggesting a potential downside of 1.27%. Given Coty's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Coty is more favorable than e.l.f. Beauty.
e.l.f. Beauty has a net margin of 12.47% compared to Coty's net margin of 3.59%. e.l.f. Beauty's return on equity of 26.64% beat Coty'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.
Summary
e.l.f. Beauty beats Coty on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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