NATR vs. HLF, USNA, NUS, MED, VERU, EL, IPAR, PBH, PCRX, and LQDA
Should you be buying Nature's Sunshine Products stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nature's Sunshine Products include Herbalife (HLF), USANA Health Sciences (USNA), Nu Skin Enterprises (NUS), Medifast (MED), Veru (VERU), Estée Lauder Companies (EL), Inter Parfums (IPAR), Prestige Consumer Healthcare (PBH), Pacira BioSciences (PCRX), and Liquidia (LQDA).
Nature's Sunshine Products vs.
Herbalife (NYSE:HLF) and Nature's Sunshine Products (NASDAQ:NATR) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends, risk, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Herbalife received 549 more outperform votes than Nature's Sunshine Products when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.26% of users gave Herbalife an outperform vote while only 63.60% of users gave Nature's Sunshine Products an outperform vote.
Herbalife currently has a consensus target price of $9.90, suggesting a potential upside of 51.96%. Nature's Sunshine Products has a consensus target price of $19.00, suggesting a potential upside of 32.31%. Given Herbalife's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Herbalife is more favorable than Nature's Sunshine Products.
Nature's Sunshine Products has a net margin of 3.81% compared to Herbalife's net margin of 1.73%. Nature's Sunshine Products' return on equity of 11.08% beat Herbalife's return on equity.
79.4% of Nature's Sunshine Products shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Herbalife shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.9% of Nature's Sunshine Products shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Herbalife had 2 more articles in the media than Nature's Sunshine Products. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Herbalife and 2 mentions for Nature's Sunshine Products. Nature's Sunshine Products' average media sentiment score of 1.79 beat Herbalife's score of 0.28 indicating that Nature's Sunshine Products is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Herbalife has higher revenue and earnings than Nature's Sunshine Products. Herbalife 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.
Herbalife has a beta of 1.18, suggesting that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nature's Sunshine Products has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Nature's Sunshine Products beats Herbalife on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:NATR) was last updated on 1/17/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
