CHURCH & DWIGHT CO., INC. vs UNILEVER PLC, two Household Products stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Church & Dwight runs a focused shelf of American household names and earns 11.81% net margin. Unilever spans the globe with food, cleaning, and personal-care brands, wider at 19.82% margin and vastly larger at $132.2B against $23.7B. Price is where they diverge hardest: Church & Dwight fetches 32.71 times earnings while Unilever sits at 12.87, roughly a two-and-a-half-fold gap for similar staples businesses. Cash generosity favors the giant too, Unilever yielding 5.7% of market value in free cash versus a scant 0.16% at Church & Dwight. Unilever carries no net debt (d/e 0); Church & Dwight runs a moderate 0.53. Both are steady consumer-goods compounders, priced very differently.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | CHD | UL |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $96.34 | $61.73 |
| Market cap | $22.9B | $134.8B |
| Sector | Household Products | Household Products |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +5.8% | — |
| P/E | 31.7 | 13.1 |
| P/B | 5.48 | 7.05 |
| P/S | 3.70 | 2.46 |
| EV/EBITDA | 18.6 | 11.6 |
| Revenue growth | +2.2% | -0.4% |
| Gross margin | 46.4% | 47.0% |
| Operating margin | 19.8% | 17.9% |
| Net margin | 11.8% | 19.8% |
| Return on equity | 17.5% | 56.9% |
| Return on assets | 8.1% | 14.2% |
| Return on invested capital | 13.3% | 36.7% |
| FCF yield | 0.2% | 5.6% |
| Dividend yield | 1.2% | — |
| Debt / equity | 0.53 | 0.00 |
| Current ratio | 1.22 | 0.79 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 4.77 | 2.47 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 6 / 9 | 7 / 9 |
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