HLF vs. IPAR, PBH, USNA, NUS, NATR, MED, VERU, EL, PETQ, and HWH
Should you be buying Herbalife stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Herbalife include Inter Parfums (IPAR), Prestige Consumer Healthcare (PBH), USANA Health Sciences (USNA), Nu Skin Enterprises (NUS), Nature's Sunshine Products (NATR), Medifast (MED), Veru (VERU), Estée Lauder Companies (EL), PetIQ (PETQ), and HWH International (HWH).
Inter Parfums (NASDAQ:IPAR) and Herbalife (NYSE:HLF) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking and valuation.
In the previous week, Inter Parfums and Inter Parfums both had 6 articles in the media. Inter Parfums' average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Herbalife's score of 0.58 indicating that Herbalife is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Herbalife received 259 more outperform votes than Inter Parfums when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.62% of users gave Herbalife an outperform vote while only 64.32% of users gave Inter Parfums an outperform vote.
Inter Parfums presently has a consensus price target of $178.67, indicating a potential upside of 49.16%. Herbalife has a consensus price target of $10.50, indicating a potential upside of 1.94%. Given Herbalife's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Inter Parfums is more favorable than Herbalife.
55.6% of Inter Parfums shares are held by institutional investors. 43.9% of Inter Parfums shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Herbalife shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Inter Parfums has a beta of 1.19, meaning that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Herbalife has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Inter Parfums has a net margin of 10.50% compared to Inter Parfums' net margin of 2.70%. Herbalife's return on equity of 15.85% beat Inter Parfums' return on equity.
Inter Parfums has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Herbalife. Herbalife is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Inter Parfums, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Inter Parfums beats Herbalife on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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