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Updated: Mar 12, 2026

Stock Analysis

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Honest Co
NASDAQ:HNST
$2.71
-$0.11 |-4.08%
Day Range:
$2.69 - $2.82
Market Cap:
313.08M
P/E Ratio:
0.0000
Avg Value:
$3.81
Year Range:
$2.07 - $5.55
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General Information
The Honest Co Inc is a personal care company dedicated to creating cleanly-formulated and sustainably-designed products for everyone from babies to adults.

By combining thoughtful design with science-based innovation, the company delivers personal care products for everyone from babies to adults, spanning categories across wipes, personal care, diapers, and beauty. It has three product categories namely; Diapers and Wipes, Skin and Personal Care, and Household and Wellness, out of which the majority of its revenue is generated from the sale of diapers and wipes. The company operates only in the United States.

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Honest Co (HNST) Stock Graph
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How We Grade Honest Co (HNST)

We grade stocks based on past performance, their future growth potential, intrinsic value, dividend history, and overall financial health.

The chart below shows how we grade Honest Co (HNST) across the board compared to its closest peers.

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Benzinga Edge Rankings

Benzinga Edge stock rankings give you four critical scores to help you identify the strongest and weakest stocks to buy and sell.

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Peer Ratings

See how Honest Co compares to its peers in these key performance metrics from Benzinga Rankings.

Top Peers
Value
Quality
Growth
Momentum
Short
Medium
Long
USNAUsana Health Sciences
90.8
0
0
3.38
NUSNu Skin Enterprises
99.49
43.37
0
10.4
NAGENiagen Bioscience
59.05
0
0
0
YSGYatsen Holding
0
0
0
7.24
Short: price trend over the last couple of months
Medium: price trend over the last couple of quarters
Long: price trend over the past year
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Financial Health
What is the current state of the company's financial situation?

We measure the health of a company based on how profitable they are and their ability to cover both their short-term and long-term debts. The key indicators that we use are the Operating Margin, Quick Ratio, and Debt-to-Equity ratio relative to the companies peers

Operational Margin -0.2273

The operating margin measures how much profit a company makes after it spends money on wages, materials or other administrative expenses but before interest and taxes. It is a good representation of how efficiently a company is able to generate profit from its core operations.

Quick Ratio 2.4271

The quick ratio measures how much of a company's debt, that is due in less than 1 year, can be covered using its cash equivalents, marketable securities, and money that is currently owed to them (accounts receivables).

A company with a quick ratio of less than 1.00 does not, in many cases, have the capital on hand to meet its short-term obligations if they were all due at once, while a quick ratio greater than one indicates the company has the financial resources to remain solvent in the short term.

Debt-to-Equity 0.3285

Debt-to-equity is calculated by dividing a company's total liabilities by its shareholders equity. It is a measure of the degree to which a company is financing its operations through debt versus wholly owned funds. Generally speaking, a D/E ratio below 1.0 would be seen as relatively safe, whereas ratios of 2.0 or higher would be considered risky.

The chart above shows Honest Co (HNST) operating margin, quick ratio, and debt-to-equity ratio compared to its peers. The black markers represent the peer averages for each ratio and the blue bars represent Honest Co (HNST) ratio values.
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Past Performance
How has Honest Co (HNST) performed over the past 5 years?

The two main factors that we consider when analyzing past performance is overall return and volatility

Using these two metrics, we can determine if this stock gave its investors enough return for the risk that they took on by owning it. This is measured by the sharpe ratio, which has been used as a primary measure of risk/reward trade-off for almost 60 years.

This ratio can be interpreted as the amount of return an investor has received for the amount of risk that they took on by owning the stock over that timeframe.

Honest Co (HNST) sharpe ratio over the past 5 years is -0.3528 which is considered to be above average compared to the peer average of -0.4986