UNILEVER PLC vs Yatsen Holding Limited, two Household Products stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Unilever is a global staples empire, $132.2B, earning 19.82% margin and generating 5.7% in free cash from food, cleaning, and personal-care brands sold everywhere. Yatsen is a small Chinese beauty name, $6.0B, losing money, with a slightly negative free-cash yield of -0.33% and no dividend. The two could hardly be more different. Unilever's everyday products sell through any economy and fund dependable returns; Yatsen is still searching for durable profit in a single market. Unilever trades at a modest 12.87 times earnings on real results and carries no net debt, while Yatsen's 13.84 times book prices a story rather than income. Scale and cash against unproven growth.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | UL | YSG |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $61.73 | $3.63 |
| Market cap | $134.8B | $6.8B |
| Sector | Household Products | Household Products |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| P/E | 13.1 | — |
| P/B | 7.05 | 15.70 |
| P/S | 2.46 | 11.00 |
| EV/EBITDA | 11.6 | — |
| Revenue growth | -0.4% | -5.8% |
| Gross margin | 47.0% | 78.2% |
| Operating margin | 17.9% | -4.3% |
| Net margin | 19.8% | -1.9% |
| Return on equity | 56.9% | -2.7% |
| Return on assets | 14.2% | -2.1% |
| Return on invested capital | 36.7% | -4.9% |
| FCF yield | 5.6% | -0.3% |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Current ratio | 0.79 | 3.63 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 2.47 | 4.50 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 7 / 9 | 5 / 9 |
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