e.l.f. Beauty, Inc. vs UNILEVER PLC, two Household Products stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where ELF and UL diverge most: on revenue growth, ELF reads +30.6% and UL reads -0.4%; on debt / equity, ELF reads 0.71 and UL reads 0.00. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. What ELF's price implies is a somewhat stretched bet versus history (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | ELF | UL |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $96.77 | $62.02 |
| Market cap | $5.8B | $135.5B |
| Sector | Household Products | Household Products |
| Stage | Growth | Mature |
| P/E | 96.8 | 13.2 |
| P/B | 4.94 | 7.09 |
| P/S | 3.28 | 2.47 |
| EV/EBITDA | 40.9 | 11.7 |
| Revenue growth | +30.6% | -0.4% |
| Gross margin | 83.2% | 47.0% |
| Operating margin | 21.4% | 17.9% |
| Net margin | 3.4% | 19.8% |
| Return on equity | 5.1% | 56.9% |
| Return on assets | 2.4% | 14.2% |
| Return on invested capital | 4.5% | 36.7% |
| FCF yield | 4.8% | 5.6% |
| Dividend yield | 1.9% | — |
| Debt / equity | 0.71 | 0.00 |
| Current ratio | 2.55 | 0.79 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 3.74 | 2.48 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 7 / 9 | 7 / 9 |
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