NATR vs. USNA, HLF, NUS, MED, VERU, EL, IPAR, PBH, ELVN, and COLL
Should you be buying Nature's Sunshine Products stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nature's Sunshine Products include USANA Health Sciences (USNA), Herbalife (HLF), Nu Skin Enterprises (NUS), Medifast (MED), Veru (VERU), Estée Lauder Companies (EL), Inter Parfums (IPAR), Prestige Consumer Healthcare (PBH), Enliven Therapeutics (ELVN), and Collegium Pharmaceutical (COLL).
Nature's Sunshine Products vs.
USANA Health Sciences (NYSE:USNA) and Nature's Sunshine Products (NASDAQ:NATR) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.
USANA Health Sciences has a net margin of 6.30% compared to Nature's Sunshine Products' net margin of 3.81%. Nature's Sunshine Products' return on equity of 11.08% beat USANA Health Sciences' return on equity.
54.3% of USANA Health Sciences shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.4% of Nature's Sunshine Products shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of USANA Health Sciences shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.7% of Nature's Sunshine Products shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
USANA Health Sciences currently has a consensus target price of $38.00, indicating a potential upside of 19.32%. Nature's Sunshine Products has a consensus target price of $19.00, indicating a potential upside of 39.40%. Given Nature's Sunshine Products' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Nature's Sunshine Products is more favorable than USANA Health Sciences.
In the previous week, USANA Health Sciences had 9 more articles in the media than Nature's Sunshine Products. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for USANA Health Sciences and 1 mentions for Nature's Sunshine Products. Nature's Sunshine Products' average media sentiment score of 1.85 beat USANA Health Sciences' score of 0.08 indicating that Nature's Sunshine Products is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
USANA Health Sciences received 233 more outperform votes than Nature's Sunshine Products when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.60% of users gave Nature's Sunshine Products an outperform vote while only 60.45% of users gave USANA Health Sciences an outperform vote.
USANA Health Sciences has higher revenue and earnings than Nature's Sunshine Products. USANA Health Sciences 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.
USANA Health Sciences has a beta of 0.87, meaning that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nature's Sunshine Products has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Nature's Sunshine Products beats USANA Health Sciences on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:NATR) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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