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 better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings and profitability.
Valuation and Earnings
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 |
Profitability
This table compares Beauty Health and Prenetics Global’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Beauty Health | -2.03% | -9.38% | -1.21% |
| Prenetics Global | -62.45% | -20.33% | -15.42% |
Risk and Volatility
Beauty Health has a beta of 1.07, suggesting that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Prenetics Global has a beta of 0.26, suggesting that its share price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of current ratings and price targets 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, research analysts clearly believe Beauty Health is more favorable than Prenetics Global.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
93.3% of Beauty Health shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 25.0% of Prenetics Global shares are owned by institutional investors. 40.3% of Beauty Health shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.8% of Prenetics Global shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
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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