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Helen of Troy Ltd
Company Overview
Helen of Troy Limited is a global designer, developer, importer, and distributor of an expanding portfolio of brand-name consumer products. The Company operates in three segments: Personal Care, Housewares and Healthcare. Its Personal Care segment's products include electric hair care, beauty care and wellness appliances; grooming tools and accessories; and liquid, solid- and powder-based personal care and grooming products. Its Housewares segment provides a broad range of consumer products for the home. Product offerings include food preparation, storage, cleaning, organization, and baby products. The Healthcare segment focuses on health care devices, such as thermometers, blood pressure monitors, humidifiers and heating pads.

Investment Summary

Industry
Consumer Discretionary

Target Price $72.39-$60.68
Stock Performance
Current Price $40.00
52 week High $47.51
52 week Low $28.25
Beta 1.55
Market Cap $1.2Billion
Shares Outstanding $32Million
EPS 3.33
Price/Book 1.52
P/E Ratio 14.08
EBITDA 183.33Million

Return on Assets (ttm): 6.19%
Return on Equity (ttm): 11.73%
Sales 1.288 Billion

Helen of Troy Limited has been able to grow revenues from $1.2B USD to $1.3B USD. Most impressively, the company has been able to reduce the percentage of sales devoted to selling, general and administrative costs from 28.70% to 28.68%. This was a driver of bottom line growth from $110.4M to $115.7M.

According to our valuation analysis, we believe that the current stock price of HELE at $40 is undervalued. Our recommendation of BUY is based on this analysis as well as our predictions that Helen of Troy will continue to see an increase in sales and net income. Helen of Troy will appreciate in value as consumer spending increases within the next few years.

Economic Overview
Helen of Troy is dependent upon discretionary consumer demand for most of their products and most of their business operates within mature and

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