NATR vs. VRCA, VSTM, CMRX, FBIO, HLF, USNA, NUS, MED, VERU, and EL
Should you be buying Nature's Sunshine Products stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nature's Sunshine Products include Verrica Pharmaceuticals (VRCA), Verastem (VSTM), Chimerix (CMRX), Fortress Biotech (FBIO), Herbalife (HLF), USANA Health Sciences (USNA), Nu Skin Enterprises (NUS), Medifast (MED), Veru (VERU), and Estée Lauder Companies (EL).
Verrica Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:VRCA) and Nature's Sunshine Products (NASDAQ:NATR) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and profitability.
Verrica Pharmaceuticals currently has a consensus target price of $13.50, indicating a potential upside of 58.64%. Nature's Sunshine Products has a consensus target price of $24.00, indicating a potential upside of 56.66%. Given Nature's Sunshine Products' higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Verrica Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than Nature's Sunshine Products.
Nature's Sunshine Products has higher revenue and earnings than Verrica Pharmaceuticals. Verrica Pharmaceuticals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nature's Sunshine Products, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Nature's Sunshine Products had 3 more articles in the media than Verrica Pharmaceuticals. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Nature's Sunshine Products and 3 mentions for Verrica Pharmaceuticals. Verrica Pharmaceuticals' average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat Nature's Sunshine Products' score of 0.38 indicating that Nature's Sunshine Products is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Nature's Sunshine Products has a net margin of 3.69% compared to Nature's Sunshine Products' net margin of -905.83%. Verrica Pharmaceuticals' return on equity of 10.59% beat Nature's Sunshine Products' return on equity.
Verrica Pharmaceuticals received 2 more outperform votes than Nature's Sunshine Products when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.94% of users gave Verrica Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 62.89% of users gave Nature's Sunshine Products an outperform vote.
Verrica Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 1.82, meaning that its share price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nature's Sunshine Products has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
42.5% of Verrica Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.4% of Nature's Sunshine Products shares are owned by institutional investors. 42.6% of Verrica Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.7% of Nature's Sunshine Products shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Nature's Sunshine Products beats Verrica Pharmaceuticals on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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