NATR vs. HLF, USNA, NUS, MED, VERU, EL, PBH, IPAR, RCUS, and RCKT
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), Prestige Consumer Healthcare (PBH), Inter Parfums (IPAR), Arcus Biosciences (RCUS), and Rocket Pharmaceuticals (RCKT).
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 companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking and media sentiment.
Herbalife currently has a consensus price target of $12.00, indicating a potential upside of 47.15%. Nature's Sunshine Products has a consensus price target of $19.00, indicating a potential upside of 52.18%. Given Nature's Sunshine Products' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Nature's Sunshine Products is more favorable than Herbalife.
In the previous week, Herbalife had 19 more articles in the media than Nature's Sunshine Products. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Herbalife and 1 mentions for Nature's Sunshine Products. Nature's Sunshine Products' average media sentiment score of 1.90 beat Herbalife's score of 0.62 indicating that Nature's Sunshine Products is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
79.4% of Nature's Sunshine Products shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Herbalife shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.7% of Nature's Sunshine Products shares are held 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.
Herbalife received 551 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 has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nature's Sunshine Products has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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 net margin of 5.09% compared to Nature's Sunshine Products' net margin of 3.81%. Nature's Sunshine Products' return on equity of 11.08% beat Herbalife's return on equity.
Herbalife pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.7%. Nature's Sunshine Products pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Herbalife pays out 48.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Nature's Sunshine Products pays out 100.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Herbalife is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Herbalife beats Nature's Sunshine Products on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:NATR) was last updated on 3/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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