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Herbalife (HLF) Competitors

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$6.27 -0.29 (-4.42%)
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HLF vs. USNA, NUS, NATR, MED, VERU, EL, PBH, IPAR, 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), Prestige Consumer Healthcare (PBH), Inter Parfums (IPAR), Cosmos Health (COSM), and HWH International (HWH).

Herbalife vs.

USANA Health Sciences (NYSE:USNA) and Herbalife (NYSE:HLF) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations and earnings.

USANA Health Sciences has a net margin of 6.30% compared to Herbalife's net margin of 5.09%. USANA Health Sciences' return on equity of 10.64% beat Herbalife's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
USANA Health Sciences6.30% 10.64% 8.48%
Herbalife 5.09%-20.78%7.48%

54.3% of USANA Health Sciences shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of USANA Health Sciences shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Herbalife shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

USANA Health Sciences presently has a consensus price target of $36.00, indicating a potential upside of 51.69%. Herbalife has a consensus price target of $12.00, indicating a potential upside of 86.19%. Given Herbalife's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Herbalife is more favorable than USANA Health Sciences.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
USANA Health Sciences
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Herbalife
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.75

In the previous week, USANA Health Sciences had 4 more articles in the media than Herbalife. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for USANA Health Sciences and 6 mentions for Herbalife. Herbalife's average media sentiment score of 1.36 beat USANA Health Sciences' score of 0.70 indicating that Herbalife is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
USANA Health Sciences
4 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Herbalife
5 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
USANA Health Sciences$854.50M0.53$63.79M$2.1910.84
Herbalife$4.99B0.13$142.20M$2.492.59

USANA Health Sciences has a beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Herbalife has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Herbalife received 318 more outperform votes than USANA Health Sciences when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.26% of users gave Herbalife an outperform vote while only 60.36% of users gave USANA Health Sciences an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
USANA Health SciencesOutperform Votes
399
60.36%
Underperform Votes
262
39.64%
HerbalifeOutperform Votes
717
67.26%
Underperform Votes
349
32.74%

Summary

Herbalife beats USANA Health Sciences on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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HLF vs. The Competition

MetricHerbalifeDrugs, proprietaries, & sundries IndustryRetail SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$653.14M$21.01B$22.82B$18.49B
Dividend YieldN/A1.56%170.20%4.23%
P/E Ratio2.5911.8421.4931.15
Price / Sales0.139.474.0225.57
Price / Cash2.5212.9519.4117.53
Price / Book-0.8132.265.624.29
Net Income$142.20M$785.39M$781.29M$1.02B
7 Day Performance-12.31%-0.73%-1.72%-0.80%
1 Month Performance-19.99%-11.53%-5.32%-6.88%
1 Year Performance-21.40%-15.19%2.10%1.68%

Herbalife Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
HLF
Herbalife
4.4016 of 5 stars
$6.27
-4.4%
$12.00
+91.4%
-20.8%$635.41M$4.99B2.5210,100Positive News
USNA
USANA Health Sciences
4.7805 of 5 stars
$24.71
-3.0%
$36.00
+45.7%
-44.6%$466.52M$854.50M8.721,900Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
NUS
Nu Skin Enterprises
3.5608 of 5 stars
$6.25
-3.0%
$6.88
+10.1%
-50.5%$310.07M$1.73B-2.113,700News Coverage
Positive News
NATR
Nature's Sunshine Products
3.5407 of 5 stars
$11.47
-2.7%
$19.00
+65.7%
-35.0%$211.09M$454.36M12.98850Analyst Upgrade
Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
Gap Down
MED
Medifast
3.8034 of 5 stars
$13.04
-1.2%
$16.50
+26.6%
-60.5%$142.85M$602.46M72.56870Positive News
VERU
Veru
2.0879 of 5 stars
$0.57
+0.0%
$4.33
+660.2%
-65.7%$83.44M$16.89M-2.19230News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Down
EL
Estée Lauder Companies
4.7599 of 5 stars
$53.09
+0.3%
$86.00
+62.0%
-60.4%$19.04B$15.18B-27.2063,000Analyst Forecast
PBH
Prestige Consumer Healthcare
4.1656 of 5 stars
$81.67
-1.4%
$93.33
+14.3%
+18.7%$4.04B$1.12B19.10540News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Down
IPAR
Inter Parfums
3.9211 of 5 stars
$103.31
-0.8%
$162.80
+57.6%
-16.3%$3.32B$1.45B22.20530Short Interest ↑
Positive News
COSM
Cosmos Health
1.7859 of 5 stars
$0.35
-0.4%
N/A-47.3%$8.12M$56.04M-0.14100Earnings Report
News Coverage
HWH
HWH International
N/A$0.96
-11.6%
N/A-80.3%$6.19M$1.25M0.00N/AShort Interest ↑
Positive News
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