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NUS vs. HLF, USNA, NATR, MED, VERU, EL, PBH, IPAR, COSM, and HWH

Should you be buying Nu Skin Enterprises stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nu Skin Enterprises include Herbalife (HLF), USANA Health Sciences (USNA), 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).

Nu Skin Enterprises vs.

Herbalife (NYSE:HLF) and Nu Skin Enterprises (NYSE:NUS) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, earnings, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment and profitability.

82.8% of Nu Skin Enterprises shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of Herbalife shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Nu Skin Enterprises shares are owned by company 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 has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nu Skin Enterprises has a beta of 1.06, suggesting that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Herbalife presently has a consensus target price of $12.00, indicating a potential upside of 41.76%. Nu Skin Enterprises has a consensus target price of $6.88, indicating a potential upside of 0.44%. Given Herbalife's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Herbalife is more favorable than Nu Skin Enterprises.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Herbalife
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.75
Nu Skin Enterprises
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

Herbalife received 204 more outperform votes than Nu Skin Enterprises when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.26% of users gave Herbalife an outperform vote while only 63.89% of users gave Nu Skin Enterprises an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
HerbalifeOutperform Votes
717
67.26%
Underperform Votes
349
32.74%
Nu Skin EnterprisesOutperform Votes
513
63.89%
Underperform Votes
290
36.11%

Herbalife pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.2%. Nu Skin Enterprises pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Herbalife pays out 48.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Nu Skin Enterprises pays out -8.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.

In the previous week, Herbalife had 2 more articles in the media than Nu Skin Enterprises. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Herbalife and 2 mentions for Nu Skin Enterprises. Nu Skin Enterprises' average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Herbalife's score of 0.73 indicating that Nu Skin Enterprises is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Herbalife
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Nu Skin Enterprises
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Herbalife has a net margin of 5.09% compared to Nu Skin Enterprises' net margin of -8.46%. Nu Skin Enterprises' return on equity of 5.86% beat Herbalife's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Herbalife5.09% -20.78% 7.48%
Nu Skin Enterprises -8.46%5.86%2.62%

Herbalife has higher revenue and earnings than Nu Skin Enterprises. Nu Skin Enterprises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Herbalife, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Herbalife$4.99B0.17$142.20M$2.493.40
Nu Skin Enterprises$1.73B0.20-$146.59M-$2.95-2.32

Summary

Herbalife beats Nu Skin Enterprises on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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NUS vs. The Competition

MetricNu Skin EnterprisesDrugs, proprietaries, & sundries IndustryStaples SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$340.35M$20.91B$17.10B$18.88B
Dividend Yield3.20%1.26%2.87%3.79%
P/E Ratio-2.3212.0015.9331.43
Price / Sales0.209.962.4725.45
Price / Cash3.4412.9516.3917.54
Price / Book0.5232.826.664.36
Net Income-$146.59M$785.39M$731.75M$1.02B
7 Day Performance-8.90%-4.97%-3.01%-5.42%
1 Month Performance-10.76%-7.78%-2.71%-5.81%
1 Year Performance-46.90%-14.95%-1.05%-0.44%

Nu Skin Enterprises Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
NUS
Nu Skin Enterprises
2.8555 of 5 stars
$6.85
-4.0%
$6.88
+0.4%
-45.6%$340.35M$1.73B-2.323,700Gap Down
HLF
Herbalife
4.4543 of 5 stars
$8.66
+1.1%
$12.00
+38.6%
+5.6%$877.71M$4.99B3.4810,100News Coverage
USNA
USANA Health Sciences
4.6355 of 5 stars
$26.98
-2.9%
$36.00
+33.4%
-41.7%$510.06M$854.50M9.531,900
NATR
Nature's Sunshine Products
2.965 of 5 stars
$12.55
-0.8%
$19.00
+51.4%
-40.0%$231.97M$454.36M14.26850Short Interest ↑
High Trading Volume
MED
Medifast
3.9545 of 5 stars
$13.51
-2.3%
$16.50
+22.2%
-60.9%$147.72M$602.46M75.03870Gap Down
VERU
Veru
1.4366 of 5 stars
$0.49
-3.5%
$4.33
+784.2%
-18.0%$71.74M$16.89M-1.89230Gap Down
EL
Estée Lauder Companies
4.7714 of 5 stars
$66.01
+0.9%
$86.00
+30.3%
-55.0%$23.70B$15.18B-33.8563,000Positive News
Gap Down
PBH
Prestige Consumer Healthcare
4.0674 of 5 stars
$86.07
+1.2%
$93.33
+8.4%
+23.3%$4.26B$1.12B20.16540Positive News
IPAR
Inter Parfums
4.5276 of 5 stars
$113.87
-2.9%
$162.80
+43.0%
-15.3%$3.66B$1.45B24.44530Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
COSM
Cosmos Health
1.5113 of 5 stars
$0.44
-3.3%
N/A-38.5%$10.14M$56.04M-0.18100Short Interest ↓
Positive News
HWH
HWH International
N/A$1.24
-8.8%
N/A-84.0%$7.72MN/A0.00N/APositive News
Gap Down
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This page (NYSE:NUS) was last updated on 4/3/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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