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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 $145.9B against $6.5B — 22.5× the size. Unilever PLC trades at the lower P/E: 11.4× against 76.1×. e.l.f. Beauty grew revenue faster over the last twelve months: 39.9% against 5.30%. Unilever PLC has the higher net margin (12.0% vs 4.47%) and the lower return on invested capital (0.00% vs 6.44%). 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 76.12 11.41 25.45
P/S 3.38 n/m 1.17
P/B 5.35 n/m 2.43
Price to free cash flow 23.80 n/m 20.67
EV/EBITDA 31.90 0.12 13.40
EV/Sales 3.64 0.02 1.24
Earnings yield 1.31% 8.76% 1.13%
Free cash flow yield 4.20% 0.00% 3.81%

Profitability

Metric ELF UL Household & Personal Products median
Gross margin 74.42% 0.00% 46.90%
Operating margin 8.87% 0.00% 1.31%
Net margin 4.47% 12.03% 2.32%
Free cash flow margin 14.22% 0.00% 4.87%
Return on equity 7.33% 0.00% 4.67%
Return on assets 3.55% 0.00% 0.00%
Return on invested capital 6.44% 0.00% 0.57%

Growth

Metric ELF UL Household & Personal Products median
Revenue growth (TTM) 39.93% 5.30% 2.91%
EPS growth (last fiscal year) (77.08%) 75.13% (5.01%)
Revenue growth, 5-year CAGR 38.76% (0.28%) 1.39%
Net income growth, 5-year CAGR 33.39% 10.94% 0.00%

Health

Metric ELF UL Household & Personal Products median
Debt to equity 0.65 0.00 0.44
Current ratio 2.57 0.74 1.75
Net debt to EBITDA 3.73 (0.49) 1.37

Dividend

Metric ELF UL Household & Personal Products median
Dividend yield — 3.29% 2.48%
Payout ratio — — 0.74

Size

Metric ELF UL Household & Personal Products median
Market cap 6.48b 145.87b 671.37m

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