Unilever's first-quarter sales update showed underlying sales growth of 4.4%, ahead of company-compiled consensus of 3%. Growth was driven equally by volume and pricing, with the former up 2.2%, driven in turn by beauty's strong outperformance, up 7.4%.
Unilever has always been focused on the need to reduce costs to meet the challenges of an increasingly competitive environment.
Unilever operates in some of the most competitive categories in consumer staples, where new entrants are filling niche gaps in the market and have proved to be better innovators.
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RKT
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PG
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Price/Earnings (Normalized) | 16.45 | 9.61 | 24.89 |
Price/Book Value | 6.15 | 3.68 | 7.79 |
Price/Sales | 1.89 | 2.14 | 4.78 |
Price/Cash Flow | 14.57 | 11.57 | 19.83 |
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RKT
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PG
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Quick Ratio | 0.51 | 0.40 | 0.40 |
Current Ratio | 0.76 | 0.64 | 0.64 |
Interest Coverage | 9.28 | 9.00 | 20.66 |
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RKT
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PG
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Return on Assets (Normalized) | 8.54% | 8.60% | 13.82% |
Return on Equity (Normalized) | 35.06% | 26.61% | 35.61% |
Return on Invested Capital (Normalized) | 13.94% | 14.24% | 20.62% |
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PG
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EL
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KMB
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