e.l.f. Beauty (ELF) vs Newell Brands Inc. (NWL)

e.l.f. Beauty and Newell Brands Inc. are both Household & Personal Products companies. e.l.f. Beauty is the larger, with a market value of $6.5B against $2.3B — 2.8× the size. Newell Brands Inc. has negative trailing earnings, so its P/E is not meaningful; e.l.f. Beauty trades at 79.8×. e.l.f. Beauty grew revenue faster over the last twelve months: 39.9% against 0.79%. e.l.f. Beauty has the higher net margin (4.47% vs −4.42%) and the higher return on invested capital (6.22% vs 0.65%). Across the 21 metrics below, e.l.f. Beauty leads on 16 and Newell Brands Inc. on 5.

Valuation

Metric ELF NWL Household & Personal Products median
P/E 79.77 n/m 24.47
P/S 3.54 0.32 1.19
P/B 5.60 0.98 3.30
Price to free cash flow 24.92 43.72 18.07
EV/EBITDA 33.30 8.86 13.95
EV/Sales 3.80 1.01 1.27
Earnings yield 1.25% (14.16%) 1.09%
Free cash flow yield 4.01% 2.29% 3.78%

Profitability

Metric ELF NWL Household & Personal Products median
Gross margin 74.42% 35.58% 46.90%
Operating margin 8.87% 0.98% 1.31%
Net margin 4.47% (4.42%) 2.32%
Free cash flow margin 14.22% 0.72% 4.87%
Return on equity 7.33% (12.76%) 4.67%
Return on assets 3.55% (2.91%) 0.00%
Return on invested capital 6.22% 0.65% 0.57%

Growth

Metric ELF NWL Household & Personal Products median
Revenue growth (TTM) 39.93% 0.79% 2.91%
EPS growth (last fiscal year) (77.08%) (30.77%) (5.01%)
Revenue growth, 5-year CAGR 38.76% (5.15%) 1.39%
Net income growth, 5-year CAGR 33.39% 0.00% 0.00%

Health

Metric ELF NWL Household & Personal Products median
Debt to equity 0.70 2.05 0.43
Current ratio 2.57 1.27 1.75
Net debt to EBITDA 3.73 6.42 1.37

Dividend

Metric ELF NWL Household & Personal Products median
Dividend yield — 5.15% 2.49%
Payout ratio — — 0.62

Size

Metric ELF NWL Household & Personal Products median
Market cap 6.48b 2.34b 679.91m

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