Haleon plc vs UNILEVER PLC, two Household Products stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Haleon focuses on consumer-health brands like Sensodyne and Advil, earning 15.23% margin at $83.0B. Unilever is a broader staples house spanning food and personal care, a shade wider at 19.82% margin and larger at $132.2B. Price is the sharp divide: Haleon trades at 39.25 times earnings, Unilever at 12.87, a threefold gap for two well-run consumer businesses. Free cash tilts to Unilever, 5.7% against 3.53%. Both keep clean balance sheets with no net debt. Haleon's book multiple sits at 3.98 while its return on equity runs 10.19%. Similar in quality and cash generation, yet the market pays far more per dollar of Haleon's profit than Unilever's.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | HLN | UL |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.77 | $61.73 |
| Market cap | $87.8B | $134.8B |
| Sector | Household Products | Household Products |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +16.2% | — |
| P/E | 41.5 | 13.1 |
| P/B | 4.21 | 7.05 |
| P/S | 6.29 | 2.46 |
| EV/EBITDA | 24.5 | 11.6 |
| Revenue growth | +3.9% | -0.4% |
| Gross margin | 64.2% | 47.0% |
| Operating margin | 21.9% | 17.9% |
| Net margin | 15.2% | 19.8% |
| Return on equity | 10.2% | 56.9% |
| Return on assets | 5.2% | 14.2% |
| Return on invested capital | 11.4% | 36.7% |
| FCF yield | 3.3% | 5.6% |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Current ratio | 0.92 | 0.79 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 4.34 | 2.47 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 7 / 9 |
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