Beauty Health (NASDAQ:SKIN – Get Free Report) and Prenetics Global (NASDAQ:PRE – Get Free Report) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for Beauty Health and Prenetics Global, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Beauty Health | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Prenetics Global | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2.60 |
Beauty Health presently has a consensus target price of $1.52, suggesting a potential upside of 98.62%. Prenetics Global has a consensus target price of $34.25, suggesting a potential upside of 91.77%. Given Beauty Health’s higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Beauty Health is more favorable than Prenetics Global.
Profitability
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Beauty Health | -2.03% | -9.38% | -1.21% |
| Prenetics Global | -62.45% | -20.33% | -15.42% |
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Beauty Health and Prenetics Global”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Beauty Health | $300.80 million | 0.33 | -$9.52 million | ($0.17) | -4.52 |
| Prenetics Global | $92.39 million | 3.26 | -$37.71 million | ($4.58) | -3.90 |
Beauty Health has higher revenue and earnings than Prenetics Global. Beauty Health is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Prenetics Global, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
93.3% of Beauty Health shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 25.0% of Prenetics Global shares are held by institutional investors. 40.3% of Beauty Health shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.8% of Prenetics Global shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Volatility & Risk
Beauty Health has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Prenetics Global has a beta of 0.26, meaning that its share price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Beauty Health beats Prenetics Global on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Beauty Health
The Beauty Health Company designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and sells aesthetic technologies and products worldwide. The company's flagship product includes HydraFacial that enhance the skin to cleanse, extract, and hydrate the skin with proprietary solutions and serums. Its products also comprise Syndeo, a Delivery System designs to connects providers to the consumer's preferences to create a more personalized experience; consumables, such as single-use tips, solutions, and serums used to provide a hydrafacial treatment; SkinStylus SteriLock Microsystem, a microneedling device used for the treatment of enhancing appearance of surgical or traumatic hypertrophic scars on the abdomen and facial acne scarring in Fitzpatrick skin types I, II, and III; and Keravive, a treatment for scalp health. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Long Beach, California.
About Prenetics Global
Prenetics Global Limited, a genomics-driven health sciences company, engages in revolutionizing prevention, early detection, and treatment. It offers CircleDNA, a prevention arm that uses whole exome sequencing to offer comprehensive consumer DNA test. The company also, through its joint venture, Insighta, engages in pioneering multi-cancer early detection technologies. In addition, the company, through its equity interests in ACT Genomics Holdings Company Limited, is involved in genomic profiling of solid tumors through ACTOnco. Prenetics Global Limited was founded in 2007 and is based in Quarry Bay, Hong Kong.
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