Edgewell Personal Care Company (EPC) vs The Honest Company, Inc. (HNST)

Edgewell Personal Care Company and The Honest Company, Inc. are both Household & Personal Products companies. Edgewell Personal Care Company is the larger, with a market value of $1.3B against $566.5M — 2.2× the size. Edgewell Personal Care Company grew revenue faster over the last twelve months: 11.7% against −12.3%. The Honest Company, Inc. has the higher net margin (−3.56% vs −4.15%) and the lower return on invested capital (−15.3% vs 0.48%). Across the 20 metrics below, Edgewell Personal Care Company leads on 11 and The Honest Company, Inc. on 9.

Valuation

Metric EPC HNST Household & Personal Products median
P/E n/m n/m 22.55
P/S 0.57 1.71 1.13
P/B 0.88 3.51 3.02
Price to free cash flow 24.48 11.11 17.73
EV/EBITDA 21.64 n/m 12.27
EV/Sales 0.96 1.47 1.26
Earnings yield (7.19%) (1.96%) 0.27%
Free cash flow yield 4.09% 9.00% 4.03%

Profitability

Metric EPC HNST Household & Personal Products median
Gross margin 39.48% 35.66% 46.28%
Operating margin 0.79% (4.37%) 0.79%
Net margin (4.15%) (3.56%) 0.61%
Free cash flow margin 2.34% 15.41% 2.89%
Return on equity (6.16%) (6.87%) 2.12%
Return on assets (2.54%) (5.19%) 0.00%
Return on invested capital 0.48% (15.27%) 0.00%

Growth

Metric EPC HNST Household & Personal Products median
Revenue growth (TTM) 11.65% (12.26%) 2.93%
EPS growth (last fiscal year) (73.10%) (133.33%) —
Revenue growth, 5-year CAGR 2.66% 4.32% 2.03%
Net income growth, 5-year CAGR (17.78%) 0.00% 0.00%

Health

Metric EPC HNST Household & Personal Products median
Debt to equity 0.85 0.00 0.46
Current ratio 1.84 3.94 1.64
Net debt to EBITDA 6.24 10.05 1.37

Dividend

Metric EPC HNST Household & Personal Products median
Dividend yield 1.56% — 1.96%
Payout ratio 0.27 0.00 0.49

Size

Metric EPC HNST Household & Personal Products median
Market cap 1.25b 566.46m 625.04m

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