Edgewell Personal Care (NYSE:EPC – Get Free Report) and BioHarvest Sciences (NASDAQ:BHST – Get Free Report) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership and risk.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
91.9% of Edgewell Personal Care shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.0% of Edgewell Personal Care shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Volatility & Risk
Edgewell Personal Care has a beta of 0.34, indicating that its share price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BioHarvest Sciences has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent ratings for Edgewell Personal Care and BioHarvest Sciences, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Edgewell Personal Care | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2.25 |
| BioHarvest Sciences | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2.33 |
Edgewell Personal Care presently has a consensus price target of $31.50, suggesting a potential upside of 13.39%. BioHarvest Sciences has a consensus price target of $6.50, suggesting a potential upside of 261.11%. Given BioHarvest Sciences’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe BioHarvest Sciences is more favorable than Edgewell Personal Care.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Edgewell Personal Care and BioHarvest Sciences”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Edgewell Personal Care | $2.22 billion | 0.58 | $25.40 million | ($2.00) | -13.89 |
| BioHarvest Sciences | $34.51 million | 1.02 | -$11.14 million | ($0.52) | -3.46 |
Edgewell Personal Care has higher revenue and earnings than BioHarvest Sciences. Edgewell Personal Care is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BioHarvest Sciences, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares Edgewell Personal Care and BioHarvest Sciences’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Edgewell Personal Care | -4.55% | 5.76% | 2.35% |
| BioHarvest Sciences | -31.21% | -58.30% | -25.60% |
Summary
Edgewell Personal Care beats BioHarvest Sciences on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Edgewell Personal Care
Edgewell Personal Care Company is a manufacturer and marketer of personal care products in the wet shave, sun and skin care, feminine care and infant care categories. As of September 30, 2016, the Company had a portfolio of over 25 brands. It manages its business in four segments: Wet Shave, Sun and Skin Care, Feminine Care and All Other. Its Wet shave products are sold under the Schick, Wilkinson Sword, Edge, Skintimate, Shave Guard and Personna brand names. Its Sun and Skin Care products are sold under the Banana Boat, Hawaiian Tropic, Wet Ones and Playtex brand names and offers Wet Ones, portable hand wipes category, and Playtex household gloves, the branded household glove in the United States. Its Feminine Care segment markets its products under the Playtex, Stayfree, Carefree and o.b. brands and markets pads and liners. Its All Other segment includes infant care, pet care and miscellaneous other products.
About BioHarvest Sciences
BioHarvest Sciences Inc. is a biotech firm. It focused on leveraging its botanical synthesis technology to develop science-based and clinically proven therapeutic solutions, within business verticals nutraceutical health and wellness products such as dietary supplements and development of plant cell-based Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients which focus on specific medical indications. BioHarvest Sciences Inc. is based in Vancouver, Canada.
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