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Coty vs Edgewell Personal Care

COTY and EPC side by side, both in soap, detergents, and cleaning preparations; perfumes, cosmetics, and other toilet preparations. Figures are trailing twelve months unless noted, from SEC filings and end-of-day prices.

How COTY and EPC compare

Coty is the larger company, worth 2.3 times as much as Edgewell Personal Care ($3.0B against $1.3B).

Edgewell Personal Care grew revenue faster over the last twelve months (11.6% versus −1.5% for Coty).

Edgewell Personal Care keeps more of each dollar of sales as profit, with a net margin of −4.2% compared with −10.4% at Coty.

Edgewell Personal Care pays a dividend yielding 2.1%; Coty does not pay one.

Edgewell Personal Care scores higher on the StockData Score (7 against 4 for Coty), which adds up 30 checks on valuation, growth, past performance, financial health and dividends.

Key numbers

A dot marks the better figure where higher or lower is clearly better.

MetricCOTYEPC
Size and price
Market cap$3.0B$1.3B
Share price$3.40$28.57
Change, 1 year−13.9%50.7%
Change, 5 years−63.4%−25.6%
Beta (5Y)1.050.67
Employees11K6,700
StockData Score
Total score47 (better)
Valuation score3 (better)1
Growth score02 (better)
Performance score00
Health score12 (better)
Dividend score02 (better)
Valuation
P/S0.5× (better)0.6×
P/B1.0×0.9× (better)
EV/EBITDA15.1× (better)21.6×
P/FCF8.6× (better)25.1×
FCF yield11.6% (better)4.0%
Fair value$4.42–
Margin of safety23.2%–
Growth
Revenue growth (TTM)−1.5%11.6% (better)
Revenue growth, 5Y average4.6% (better)2.7%
Net income growth (TTM)–−244%
EPS growth (TTM)–−247%
EPS growth, 5Y average–−15.6%
Profitability
Gross margin62.9% (better)39.5%
Operating margin−1.4%0.80% (better)
Net margin−10.4%−4.2% (better)
FCF margin6.0% (better)2.3%
Return on equity−18.5%−6.2% (better)
Return on invested capital−0.98%0.56% (better)
Financial health
Debt / equity1.020.85 (better)
Net debt / EBITDA7.17 (better)8.47
Interest coverage−0.4×0.3× (better)
Current ratio0.751.84 (better)
Altman Z-score−0.071.60 (better)
Piotroski F-score35 (better)
Dividends and buybacks
Dividend yield–2.1%
Buyback yield–1.2%
Shareholder yield0.00%3.3% (better)
Ownership
Held by institutions44.1%117%
Held by insiders61.5%1.5%
Insider net buying, 12 months$213K (better)−$5.7K
Superinvestors holding1–
Short interest, % of float12.0%10.4%

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