Haleon plc vs INTERPARFUMS, INC., two Household Products stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Haleon sells consumer-health staples like Sensodyne and Advil, earning 15.23% net margin at $83.0B. Inter Parfums makes and licenses fragrances, thinner at 11.33% margin and much smaller at $3.5B. Price parts them sharply: Haleon trades at 39.25 times earnings, Inter Parfums at 20.5, roughly half. Inter Parfums generates more free cash relative to its size, 5.72% against 3.53%, and pays a slightly higher 2.96% dividend. Haleon returns 10.19% on equity while Inter Parfums earns a stronger 15.21%. Both run light on debt, Haleon at zero and Inter Parfums at 0.14. A large health-brand book against a nimble fragrance house, the smaller one cheaper and more efficient with capital.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | HLN | IPAR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.77 | $119.30 |
| Market cap | $87.8B | $3.8B |
| Sector | Household Products | Household Products |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +16.2% | +4.4% |
| P/E | 41.5 | 22.6 |
| P/B | 4.21 | 3.43 |
| P/S | 6.29 | 2.56 |
| EV/EBITDA | 24.5 | 13.5 |
| Revenue growth | +3.9% | +1.8% |
| Gross margin | 64.2% | 65.1% |
| Operating margin | 21.9% | 21.5% |
| Net margin | 15.2% | 11.3% |
| Return on equity | 10.2% | 15.2% |
| Return on assets | 5.2% | 11.0% |
| Return on invested capital | 11.4% | 16.8% |
| FCF yield | 3.3% | 5.2% |
| Dividend yield | — | 2.7% |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 0.14 |
| Current ratio | 0.92 | 3.26 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 4.34 | 8.43 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 6 / 9 |
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