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 $6.9B against $2.5B — 2.8× the size. Newell Brands Inc. has negative trailing earnings, so its P/E is not meaningful; e.l.f. Beauty trades at 113×. e.l.f. Beauty grew revenue faster over the last twelve months: 31.2% against −2.04%. e.l.f. Beauty has the higher net margin (3.38% vs −3.05%) and the higher return on invested capital (4.72% vs 1.41%). Across the 21 metrics below, e.l.f. Beauty leads on 14 and Newell Brands Inc. on 7.

Valuation

Metric ELF NWL Household & Personal Products median
P/E 113.45 n/m 23.53
P/S 3.81 0.33 1.58
P/B 5.74 0.98 3.36
Price to free cash flow 23.95 20.40 19.95
EV/EBITDA 32.64 8.74 13.02
EV/Sales 4.10 0.99 1.42
Earnings yield 0.88% (9.36%) 0.25%
Free cash flow yield 4.18% 4.90% 3.66%

Profitability

Metric ELF NWL Household & Personal Products median
Gross margin 74.44% 35.45% 47.14%
Operating margin 7.23% 2.26% 1.31%
Net margin 3.38% (3.05%) 0.61%
Free cash flow margin 15.90% 1.63% 2.89%
Return on equity 6.04% (8.59%) 2.12%
Return on assets 3.16% (1.96%) 0.00%
Return on invested capital 4.72% 1.41% 0.24%

Growth

Metric ELF NWL Household & Personal Products median
Revenue growth (TTM) 31.23% (2.04%) 2.93%
EPS growth (last fiscal year) (77.08%) (30.77%) (12.73%)
Revenue growth, 5-year CAGR 38.76% (5.15%) 2.03%
Net income growth, 5-year CAGR 33.39% 0.00% 0.00%

Health

Metric ELF NWL Household & Personal Products median
Debt to equity 0.74 2.04 0.46
Current ratio 2.55 1.11 1.59
Net debt to EBITDA 3.73 6.42 1.37

Dividend

Metric ELF NWL Household & Personal Products median
Dividend yield — 4.95% 2.79%
Payout ratio — — 0.87

Size

Metric ELF NWL Household & Personal Products median
Market cap 6.85b 2.46b 620.01m

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