Head to Head Comparison: Church & Dwight (NYSE:CHD) versus Synergy CHC (NASDAQ:SNYR)

Synergy CHC (NASDAQ:SNYR) and Church & Dwight (NYSE:CHD) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends and earnings.

Volatility & Risk

Synergy CHC has a beta of 3.48, suggesting that its share price is 248% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Church & Dwight has a beta of 0.46, suggesting that its share price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

86.6% of Church & Dwight shares are held by institutional investors. 56.6% of Synergy CHC shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Church & Dwight shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations for Synergy CHC and Church & Dwight, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Synergy CHC	0	1	1	0	2.50
Church & Dwight	4	7	10	0	2.29

Synergy CHC presently has a consensus price target of $7.00, indicating a potential upside of 274.33%. Church & Dwight has a consensus price target of $98.85, indicating a potential upside of 2.65%. Given Synergy CHC’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Synergy CHC is more favorable than Church & Dwight.

Profitability

This table compares Synergy CHC and Church & Dwight’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Synergy CHC	7.77%	-19.51%	14.25%
Church & Dwight	12.74%	19.32%	9.47%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Synergy CHC and Church & Dwight”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Synergy CHC	$34.83 million	0.60	$2.12 million	$0.29	6.45
Church & Dwight	$6.11 billion	3.79	$585.30 million	$3.18	30.28

Church & Dwight has higher revenue and earnings than Synergy CHC. Synergy CHC is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Church & Dwight, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Church & Dwight beats Synergy CHC on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Synergy CHC

Synergy CHC Corp. engages in the marketing and distribution of branded health and wellness products. The company was founded on December 29, 2010 and is headquartered in Westbrook, ME.

About Church & Dwight

Church & Dwight Co., Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of household, personal care, and specialty products. It operates through the following segments: Consumer Domestic, Consumer International, Specialty Products Division (SPD), and Corporate. The Consumer Domestic segment offers household products, such as laundry detergents, fabric softener sheets, cat litter, household cleaning products, and personal care products including antiperspirants, oral care products, depilatories, reproductive health products, oral analgesics, nasal saline moisturizers, and dietary supplements. The Consumer International segment is involved in the personal care, household and over-the-counter products in international subsidiary markets, including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, China, and the United Kingdom. The SPD segment consists of sales to businesses and participates in three product areas namely, animal nutrition, specialty chemicals, and commercial and professional. The Corporate segment includes equity in earnings of affiliates. The company was founded by Dwight John and Austin Church in 1846 and is headquartered in Ewing, NJ.