WALD vs. EPC, OLPX, YSG, SHOT, UG, CL, EL, HLN, KVUE, and ELF
Should you be buying Waldencast stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Waldencast include Edgewell Personal Care (EPC), Olaplex (OLPX), Yatsen (YSG), Safety Shot (SHOT), United-Guardian (UG), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Estée Lauder Companies (EL), Haleon (HLN), Kenvue (KVUE), and e.l.f. Beauty (ELF). These companies are all part of the "toilet preparations" industry.
Edgewell Personal Care (NYSE:EPC) and Waldencast (NASDAQ:WALD) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends and valuation.
91.9% of Edgewell Personal Care shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.0% of Waldencast shares are held by institutional investors. 2.4% of Edgewell Personal Care shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.9% of Waldencast shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Edgewell Personal Care has higher revenue and earnings than Waldencast.
Edgewell Personal Care currently has a consensus target price of $42.25, suggesting a potential upside of 9.51%. Waldencast has a consensus target price of $7.25, suggesting a potential upside of 70.19%. Given Edgewell Personal Care's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Waldencast is more favorable than Edgewell Personal Care.
Edgewell Personal Care has a beta of 0.95, indicating that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Waldencast has a beta of -0.38, indicating that its stock price is 138% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Waldencast had 3 more articles in the media than Edgewell Personal Care. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Waldencast and 5 mentions for Edgewell Personal Care. Waldencast's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Edgewell Personal Care's score of 0.41 indicating that Edgewell Personal Care is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Edgewell Personal Care has a net margin of 5.40% compared to Edgewell Personal Care's net margin of 0.00%. Waldencast's return on equity of 9.29% beat Edgewell Personal Care's return on equity.
Edgewell Personal Care received 467 more outperform votes than Waldencast when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 92.86% of users gave Waldencast an outperform vote while only 58.54% of users gave Edgewell Personal Care an outperform vote.
Summary
Edgewell Personal Care beats Waldencast on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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