UL vs. HLN, KVUE, SN, ELF, COTY, ODD, IMAX, MBC, FOXF, and LVWR
Should you be buying Unilever stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Unilever include Haleon (HLN), Kenvue (KVUE), SharkNinja (SN), e.l.f. Beauty (ELF), Coty (COTY), Oddity Tech (ODD), IMAX (IMAX), MasterBrand (MBC), Fox Factory (FOXF), and LiveWire Group (LVWR). These companies are all part of the "consumer goods" industry.
Unilever vs. Its Competitors
Haleon (NYSE:HLN) and Unilever (NYSE:UL) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, dividends, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Haleon has a net margin of 12.86% compared to Unilever's net margin of 0.00%. Haleon's return on equity of 17.65% beat Unilever's return on equity.
In the previous week, Unilever had 20 more articles in the media than Haleon. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Unilever and 3 mentions for Haleon. Unilever's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Haleon's score of 0.77 indicating that Unilever is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Haleon pays an annual dividend of $0.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Unilever pays an annual dividend of $2.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Haleon pays out 64.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Unilever pays out 59.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Unilever is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Haleon presently has a consensus target price of $12.33, indicating a potential upside of 18.57%. Unilever has a consensus target price of $70.67, indicating a potential upside of 15.53%. Given Haleon's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Haleon is more favorable than Unilever.
Unilever received 479 more outperform votes than Haleon when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 51.66% of users gave Unilever an outperform vote while only 45.45% of users gave Haleon an outperform vote.
Haleon has a beta of 0.31, indicating that its share price is 69% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Unilever has a beta of 0.43, indicating that its share price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500.
6.7% of Haleon shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.7% of Unilever shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Unilever shares are held 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.
Unilever has higher revenue and earnings than Haleon. Unilever is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Haleon, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Unilever beats Haleon on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:UL) was last updated on 6/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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