HLF vs. GOOS, FWRG, SBH, CARS, KRUS, JACK, HIBB, FIGS, FVRR, and CBRL
Should you be buying Herbalife stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Herbalife include Canada Goose (GOOS), First Watch Restaurant Group (FWRG), Sally Beauty (SBH), Cars.com (CARS), Kura Sushi USA (KRUS), Jack in the Box (JACK), Hibbett (HIBB), FIGS (FIGS), Fiverr International (FVRR), and Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Herbalife (NYSE:HLF) and Canada Goose (NYSE:GOOS) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, valuation, dividends and risk.
Herbalife presently has a consensus price target of $10.50, indicating a potential downside of 3.58%. Canada Goose has a consensus price target of $14.42, indicating a potential upside of 8.48%. Given Canada Goose's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Canada Goose is more favorable than Herbalife.
Herbalife has higher revenue and earnings than Canada Goose. Herbalife is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Canada Goose, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Herbalife has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Canada Goose has a beta of 1.46, suggesting that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Canada Goose has a net margin of 4.28% compared to Herbalife's net margin of 2.70%. Canada Goose's return on equity of 26.15% beat Herbalife's return on equity.
Herbalife received 175 more outperform votes than Canada Goose when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.60% of users gave Canada Goose an outperform vote while only 67.59% of users gave Herbalife an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Canada Goose had 40 more articles in the media than Herbalife. MarketBeat recorded 44 mentions for Canada Goose and 4 mentions for Herbalife. Canada Goose's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Herbalife's score of 0.00 indicating that Canada Goose is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
83.6% of Canada Goose shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Herbalife shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Canada Goose shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Canada Goose beats Herbalife on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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