Verdict: Side-by-side breakdown using the Bull Rankings model. PG scored 50.3, ELF scored 49.7 — PG leads.
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PG
The Procter & Gamble Company
Household & Personal Products · Quality-Growth
50.3
$151.23 · $351.3B
fundamentals as of
Score gap
0.6
PG leads
ELF
e.l.f. Beauty, Inc.
Household & Personal Products · Quality-Growth
49.7
$109.23 · $6.4B
fundamentals as of
At a glance · who leads each dimension, on the model's own rules
CheapestPG22.8x
Fastest growthELF+24.6%
Strongest balance sheetPG0.64
Highest qualityPG85 / 100
Side by side · every name on one set of axes
Growth against the P/E multiple. Up and to the right is cheaper and faster — the quality-growth idea in one picture. Points beyond the axis are pinned to the edge and marked off-scale rather than allowed to compress everything else.
The model, pillar by pillar (0–100 each)
PG
stronger →← stronger
ELF
85
Qualityreturns · margins · balance sheet
48
46
Growthrevenue & earnings expansion
87
32
Valuevaluation vs sector peers
30
PG is stronger on 2 of 3 pillars.
Fundamentals, head-to-head
PG
ELF
$15.1bA-
FCF
$280mC
+3.3%C+
Rev
+24.6%A-
0.64B+
D/E
0.80B
22.8xC+
P/E
111.5xD
3.85D
PEG
1.37B
Winner per row is the stronger grade; where grades tie, the better figure breaks it. A true tie or a missing value shows no highlight.
Valuation · DCF cross-check
PG
ELF
58% above
Price vs fair valuelower is cheaper
49% above
~15%/yr
Growth the price impliesyr-1 FCF growth, fading to 4% · lower = less priced in
~26%/yr
-36%
1-yr DCF upside
-48%
-37%
5-yr DCF upside
-33%
-37%
10-yr DCF upside
-5%
The DCF is a cross-check on intrinsic value, separate from the quality-growth score above.
Model signals
PG
Why this score
Durable high returns
ELF
Why this score
Diluting shareholders
The companies
PGThe Procter & Gamble Company
Household & Personal Products · $151.23 · beta 0.38
Why now
Household & Personal Products · market cap $351.3b. 10% off the 52-week high of $167.25. 23 sell-side analysts rate this a Buy with a mean 1-yr target of $161.22 (implying +7% upside).
Moat
Net margin 18% beats the market median by a meaningful margin — the company is keeping more of every revenue dollar than the average S&P constituent. ROE 30% — top-decile capital efficiency. Either pricing leverage, low capital intensity, or aggressive buybacks; the durability story depends on which. $351.3b market cap places it among the largest companies in the sector — distribution, R&D, and customer-acquisition costs amortize across a base peers can't replicate.
Risk
Mature compounder — the risk is paying up for quality at a moment when growth is decelerating. Watch for sequential revenue + margin trends; the inflection from "compounder" to "ex-compounder" is hard to spot until the multiple already started compressing.
ELFe.l.f. Beauty, Inc.
Household & Personal Products · $109.23 · beta 1.60
Why now
Household & Personal Products · market cap $6.4b. Down 23% from 52-week high of $141.50 — deep drawdown territory. Revenue growing +25%, comfortably above the S&P median. 16 sell-side analysts rate this a Buy with a mean 1-yr target of $105.00 (implying -4% upside).
Moat
Free cash flow runs well ahead of reported net income.
Risk
Trailing P/E 111.5x prices in sustained high growth — any quarter that disappoints triggers sharp re-rating. Beta 1.60 implies above-market volatility — position-size to the drawdowns this name will produce in a market correction, not to its bull-case return. Net margin 3.4% is thin — operating leverage cuts both ways; input-cost inflation or pricing pressure hits the bottom line first.
Verdict — model-derived comparison
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Where PG and ELF diverge
On the headline score the gap is 0.6 points in favor of PG. They get there differently, though — each leads on a different pillar, so the better pick depends on which you weight.
GrowthPG 45.9 · ELF 87.1ELF +41.2
QualityPG 85.3 · ELF 47.7PG +37.6
ValuePG 32.5 · ELF 29.6level
Pillars run 0–100. Value is judged against each company's own sector, so a Value score is a statement about a company relative to its own industry rather than to the other name here. A wide Value gap usually means the market already prices the difference in quality or growth — which is the trade-off this comparison comes down to.
Common questions
Is PG or ELF the better stock?
PG scores higher: PG 50.3, ELF 49.7 out of 100 on the Bull Rankings quality-growth score, which blends business quality, growth and valuation into one number. A higher score means a stronger business at a more reasonable price — it is not a price target or a recommendation.
Where do PG and ELF differ most?
The widest gap is growth, where ELF leads by 41 points on the 0–100 pillar scale. Neither name sweeps: they trade the lead across the three pillars, so the comparison is a trade-off rather than one being better on every measure.
How are PG and ELF scored?
Each carries the same 0–100 quality-growth score used everywhere on the site, built from three pillars — quality (profitability and returns on capital), growth (revenue and earnings), and value (what you pay for them) — combined as a geometric mean, so a weak pillar cannot be papered over by a strong one.
How current is this comparison?
The whole universe is re-scored every trading day after the US market close, so the scores and fundamentals here reflect the latest published edition.