e.l.f. Beauty (ELF) vs Unilever PLC (UL)

e.l.f. Beauty and Unilever PLC are both Household & Personal Products companies. Unilever PLC is the larger, with a market value of $134.2B against $5.9B — 22.7× the size. Unilever PLC trades at the lower P/E: 10.5× against 99.5×. e.l.f. Beauty grew revenue faster over the last twelve months: 31.2% against 5.30%. Unilever PLC has the higher net margin (12.0% vs 3.38%) and the lower return on invested capital (0.00% vs 4.72%). Across the 19 metrics below, e.l.f. Beauty leads on 11 and Unilever PLC on 8.

Valuation

Metric ELF UL Household & Personal Products median
P/E 99.51 10.55 22.55
P/S 3.34 n/m 1.13
P/B 5.04 n/m 3.02
Price to free cash flow 21.01 n/m 17.73
EV/EBITDA 28.91 0.76 12.27
EV/Sales 3.63 0.15 1.26
Earnings yield 1.00% 9.48% 0.27%
Free cash flow yield 4.76% 0.00% 4.03%

Profitability

Metric ELF UL Household & Personal Products median
Gross margin 74.44% 0.00% 46.28%
Operating margin 7.23% 0.00% 0.79%
Net margin 3.38% 12.03% 0.61%
Free cash flow margin 15.90% 0.00% 2.89%
Return on equity 6.04% 0.00% 2.12%
Return on assets 3.16% 0.00% 0.00%
Return on invested capital 4.72% 0.00% 0.00%

Growth

Metric ELF UL Household & Personal Products median
Revenue growth (TTM) 31.23% 5.30% 2.93%
EPS growth (last fiscal year) (77.08%) 75.13% —
Revenue growth, 5-year CAGR 38.76% (0.28%) 2.03%
Net income growth, 5-year CAGR 33.39% 10.94% 0.00%

Health

Metric ELF UL Household & Personal Products median
Debt to equity 0.74 0.00 0.46
Current ratio 2.55 0.74 1.64
Net debt to EBITDA 3.73 (0.49) 1.37

Dividend

Metric ELF UL Household & Personal Products median
Dividend yield — 3.86% 1.96%
Payout ratio 0.00 0.52 0.49

Size

Metric ELF UL Household & Personal Products median
Market cap 5.90b 134.15b 625.04m

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