HLF vs. USNA, NUS, NATR, MED, VERU, EL, IPAR, PBH, COSM, and HWH
Should you be buying Herbalife stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Herbalife include USANA Health Sciences (USNA), Nu Skin Enterprises (NUS), Nature's Sunshine Products (NATR), Medifast (MED), Veru (VERU), Estée Lauder Companies (EL), Inter Parfums (IPAR), Prestige Consumer Healthcare (PBH), Cosmos Health (COSM), and HWH International (HWH).
Herbalife vs.
Herbalife (NYSE:HLF) and USANA Health Sciences (NYSE:USNA) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.
In the previous week, Herbalife had 5 more articles in the media than USANA Health Sciences. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Herbalife and 0 mentions for USANA Health Sciences. USANA Health Sciences' average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Herbalife's score of 0.21 indicating that USANA Health Sciences is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Herbalife has higher revenue and earnings than USANA Health Sciences. Herbalife is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than USANA Health Sciences, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
USANA Health Sciences has a net margin of 6.30% compared to Herbalife's net margin of 1.73%. USANA Health Sciences' return on equity of 10.64% beat Herbalife's return on equity.
Herbalife has a beta of 1.18, meaning that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, USANA Health Sciences has a beta of 0.89, meaning that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Herbalife currently has a consensus target price of $9.90, suggesting a potential upside of 50.80%. USANA Health Sciences has a consensus target price of $38.00, suggesting a potential upside of 11.72%. Given Herbalife's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Herbalife is more favorable than USANA Health Sciences.
54.3% of USANA Health Sciences shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Herbalife shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of USANA Health Sciences shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Herbalife received 317 more outperform votes than USANA Health Sciences when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.26% of users gave Herbalife an outperform vote while only 60.49% of users gave USANA Health Sciences an outperform vote.
Summary
Herbalife beats USANA Health Sciences on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:HLF) was last updated on 1/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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