Beauty Health (NASDAQ:SKIN – Get Free Report) and Natural Alternatives International (NASDAQ:NAII – Get Free Report) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation and institutional ownership.
Profitability
This table compares Beauty Health and Natural Alternatives International’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Beauty Health | -9.79% | -47.83% | -5.79% |
| Natural Alternatives International | -10.13% | -12.21% | -5.30% |
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for Beauty Health and Natural Alternatives International, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Beauty Health | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Natural Alternatives International | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares Beauty Health and Natural Alternatives International”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Beauty Health | $300.80 million | 0.30 | -$9.52 million | ($0.22) | -3.14 |
| Natural Alternatives International | $129.86 million | 0.10 | -$13.57 million | ($2.39) | -0.84 |
Beauty Health has higher revenue and earnings than Natural Alternatives International. Beauty Health is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Natural Alternatives International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Volatility and Risk
Beauty Health has a beta of 1, indicating that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Natural Alternatives International has a beta of 0.36, indicating that its share price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
93.3% of Beauty Health shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.4% of Natural Alternatives International shares are held by institutional investors. 35.5% of Beauty Health shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 20.8% of Natural Alternatives International shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Beauty Health beats Natural Alternatives International on 11 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 Natural Alternatives International
Natural Alternatives International, Inc. engages in formulating, manufacturing, and marketing nutritional supplements in the United States, Europe, Australia, Asia, Mexico, and Canada. The company operates in two segments, Private-Label Contract Manufacturing, and Patent and Trademark Licensing. It offers private-label contract manufacturing services to companies that market and distribute vitamins, minerals, herbal, and other nutritional supplements, as well as other health care products. The company also provides strategic partnering services, such as customized product formulation, clinical study design and support, manufacturing, marketing support, international regulatory and label law compliance, international product registration, packaging in multiple formats and labeling design, scientific research, proprietary ingredients, customer-specific nutritional product formulation, product testing and evaluation, marketing management, packaging and delivery system design, regulatory review, and international product registration assistance. In addition, it sells beta-alanine ingredient under the CarnoSyn and SR CarnoSyn names. The company manufactures products in various forms, including capsules, tablets, chewable wafers, and powders. Its private-label contract manufacturing customers include companies that market nutritional supplements through direct sales marketing channels, direct to consumer e-commerce channels, and retail stores. The company was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, California.
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