Beauty Health (NASDAQ:SKIN – Get Free Report) and Avantor (NYSE:AVTR – Get Free Report) are both medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, risk, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Risk and Volatility
Beauty Health has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Avantor has a beta of 1, indicating that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of current recommendations for Beauty Health and Avantor, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Beauty Health | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Avantor | 0 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 2.27 |
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Beauty Health and Avantor”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Beauty Health | $334.30 million | 0.50 | -$29.10 million | ($0.22) | -5.93 |
| Avantor | $6.78 billion | 1.15 | $711.50 million | ($0.13) | -88.19 |
Avantor has higher revenue and earnings than Beauty Health. Avantor is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Beauty Health, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares Beauty Health and Avantor’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Beauty Health | -3.87% | -19.70% | -1.97% |
| Avantor | -1.25% | 10.91% | 5.34% |
Insider & Institutional Ownership
93.3% of Beauty Health shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.1% of Avantor shares are owned by institutional investors. 41.0% of Beauty Health shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Avantor shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Avantor beats Beauty Health 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 Avantor
Avantor, Inc. engages in the provision of mission-critical products and services to customers in the biopharma, healthcare, education and government, advanced technologies, and applied materials industries in the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. The company offers materials and consumables, such as purity chemicals and reagents, lab products and supplies, formulated silicone materials, customized excipients, customized single-use assemblies, process chromatography resins and columns, analytical sample prep kits, education and microbiology products, clinical trial kits, peristaltic pumps, and fluid handling tips. It also provides equipment and instrumentation products, including filtration systems, virus inactivation systems, incubators, analytical instruments, evaporators, ultra-low-temperature freezers, biological safety cabinets, and critical environment supplies. In addition, the company offers services and specialty procurements comprising onsite lab and production, clinical, equipment, procurement and sourcing, and biopharmaceutical material scale-up and development services. Further, it provides scientific research support services, such as DNA extraction, bioreactor servicing, clinical and biorepository, and compound management services. The company was founded in 1904 and is headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania.
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