Yunhong Green CTI (NASDAQ:YHGJ – Get Free Report) and Edgewell Personal Care (NYSE:EPC – Get Free Report) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk and institutional ownership.
Volatility & Risk
Yunhong Green CTI has a beta of 0.38, suggesting that its share price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Edgewell Personal Care has a beta of 0.52, suggesting that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for Yunhong Green CTI and Edgewell Personal Care, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Yunhong Green CTI | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
| Edgewell Personal Care | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2.25 |
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Yunhong Green CTI and Edgewell Personal Care”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Yunhong Green CTI | $19.70 million | 0.42 | -$2.53 million | ($1.04) | -3.04 |
| Edgewell Personal Care | $2.22 billion | 0.49 | $25.40 million | ($0.85) | -27.52 |
Edgewell Personal Care has higher revenue and earnings than Yunhong Green CTI. Edgewell Personal Care is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Yunhong Green CTI, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares Yunhong Green CTI and Edgewell Personal Care’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Yunhong Green CTI | -12.84% | -28.77% | -11.01% |
| Edgewell Personal Care | -1.76% | 7.16% | 2.90% |
Institutional & Insider Ownership
2.1% of Yunhong Green CTI shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.9% of Edgewell Personal Care shares are owned by institutional investors. 44.8% of Yunhong Green CTI shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 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 stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Edgewell Personal Care beats Yunhong Green CTI on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Yunhong Green CTI
Yunhong Green CTI Ltd. develops, produces, distributes, and sells consumer products in the United States and internationally. It offers novelty products, including foil balloons; latex balloons under the Partyloons name; and toy balloon products, which include punch balls, water bombs, and balloons twisted into shapes, as well as other inflatable toy items. The company also offers packaging films and custom film products for food, and other commercial and packaging applications; and container products, as well as assembles and sells Candy Blossom product line. It primarily serves various retail outlets, including general merchandise stores, discount and drugstore chains, grocery chains, card and gift shops, party goods stores, and florists and balloon decorators. The company sells its products directly, as well as through a network of distributors and wholesalers, retail chains, and independent sales representatives. The company was formerly known as Yunhong CTI Ltd. and changed its name to Yunhong Green CTI Ltd. in August 2023. Yunhong Green CTI Ltd. was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Lake Barrington, Illinois.
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.
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