EPC vs. NTCOY, IPAR, ODD, OLPX, WALD, YSG, SHOT, UG, CL, and EL
Should you be buying Edgewell Personal Care stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Edgewell Personal Care include Natura &Co (NTCOY), Inter Parfums (IPAR), Oddity Tech (ODD), Olaplex (OLPX), Waldencast (WALD), Yatsen (YSG), Safety Shot (SHOT), United-Guardian (UG), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), and Estée Lauder Companies (EL). These companies are all part of the "toilet preparations" industry.
Natura &Co (NYSE:NTCOY) and Edgewell Personal Care (NYSE:EPC) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, earnings, risk, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership and profitability.
Natura &Co has a net margin of 10.29% compared to Natura &Co's net margin of 5.40%. Natura &Co's return on equity of 9.29% beat Edgewell Personal Care's return on equity.
Natura &Co pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Edgewell Personal Care pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Edgewell Personal Care pays out 25.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Natura &Co has a beta of 2.02, meaning that its stock price is 102% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Edgewell Personal Care has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
6.1% of Natura &Co shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.9% of Edgewell Personal Care shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Natura &Co shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of Edgewell Personal Care shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Natura &Co has higher revenue and earnings than Edgewell Personal Care.
In the previous week, Edgewell Personal Care had 5 more articles in the media than Natura &Co. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Edgewell Personal Care and 0 mentions for Natura &Co. Natura &Co's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Edgewell Personal Care's score of 0.00 indicating that Edgewell Personal Care is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Edgewell Personal Care received 480 more outperform votes than Natura &Co when rated by MarketBeat users.
Edgewell Personal Care has a consensus target price of $42.25, indicating a potential upside of 9.51%. Given Natura &Co's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Edgewell Personal Care is more favorable than Natura &Co.
Summary
Edgewell Personal Care beats Natura &Co on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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