YSG vs. OLPX, WALD, SHOT, UG, CL, EL, HLN, KVUE, ELF, and COTY
Should you be buying Yatsen stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Yatsen include Olaplex (OLPX), Waldencast (WALD), Safety Shot (SHOT), United-Guardian (UG), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Estée Lauder Companies (EL), Haleon (HLN), Kenvue (KVUE), e.l.f. Beauty (ELF), and Coty (COTY). These companies are all part of the "toilet preparations" industry.
Olaplex (NASDAQ:OLPX) and Yatsen (NYSE:YSG) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, community ranking, dividends and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Olaplex had 5 more articles in the media than Yatsen. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Olaplex and 0 mentions for Yatsen. Olaplex's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Yatsen's score of 0.85 indicating that Yatsen is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Olaplex presently has a consensus target price of $2.51, indicating a potential upside of 41.15%. Given Yatsen's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Olaplex is more favorable than Yatsen.
Olaplex has a net margin of 10.91% compared to Olaplex's net margin of -27.06%. Yatsen's return on equity of 11.61% beat Olaplex's return on equity.
87.4% of Olaplex shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.2% of Olaplex shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 29.0% of Yatsen shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Olaplex has a beta of 2.34, suggesting that its stock price is 134% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Yatsen has a beta of -2.73, suggesting that its stock price is 373% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Olaplex has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Yatsen. Yatsen is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Olaplex, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Olaplex received 21 more outperform votes than Yatsen when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 36.36% of users gave Yatsen an outperform vote while only 34.12% of users gave Olaplex an outperform vote.
Summary
Olaplex beats Yatsen on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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