Beauty Health (NASDAQ:SKIN – Get Free Report) and Niagen Bioscience (NASDAQ:NAGE – Get Free Report) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, profitability, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Profitability
This table compares Beauty Health and Niagen Bioscience’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% |
| Niagen Bioscience | 12.39% | 17.95% | 13.17% |
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Beauty Health and Niagen Bioscience, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Beauty Health | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Niagen Bioscience | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3.00 |
Risk & Volatility
Beauty Health has a beta of 1, suggesting that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Niagen Bioscience has a beta of 2.09, suggesting that its stock price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
93.3% of Beauty Health shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.4% of Niagen Bioscience shares are held by institutional investors. 35.5% of Beauty Health shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.0% of Niagen Bioscience shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Beauty Health and Niagen Bioscience”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Beauty Health | $290.05 million | 0.30 | -$9.52 million | ($0.22) | -3.00 |
| Niagen Bioscience | $129.42 million | 1.85 | $17.38 million | $0.18 | 16.72 |
Niagen Bioscience has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Beauty Health. Beauty Health is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Niagen Bioscience, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Niagen Bioscience beats Beauty Health on 12 of the 15 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 Niagen Bioscience
Niagen Bioscience, Inc. is a global bioscience company, which engages in acquiring, developing, and commercializing proprietary-based ingredient technologies. It is pioneering research on nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+). The company’s patent portfolio includes Nicotinamide Riboside (NR) and other NAD+ precursors, which are commercialized as the flagship ingredient Niagen. It operates through the following segments: Consumer Products, Ingredients, and Analytical Reference Standards and Services. The Consumer Products segment provides finished dietary supplement products that contain the firm’s proprietary ingredients directly to consumers as well as to distributors. The Ingredients segment supplies ingredients as raw materials to the manufacturers of consumer products. The Analytical Reference Standards and Services segment includes supply of phytochemical reference standards and other research and development services. The company was founded by Mark S. Germain and Frank L. Jaksch, Jr. in 1999 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.
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