HLF vs. IPAR, PBH, USNA, NUS, NATR, MED, VERU, EL, PETQ, and BIMI
Should you be buying Herbalife stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Herbalife include Inter Parfums (IPAR), Prestige Consumer Healthcare (PBH), USANA Health Sciences (USNA), Nu Skin Enterprises (NUS), Nature's Sunshine Products (NATR), Medifast (MED), Veru (VERU), Estée Lauder Companies (EL), PetIQ (PETQ), and BIMI (BIMI).
Inter Parfums (NASDAQ:IPAR) and Herbalife (NYSE:HLF) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking and risk.
Inter Parfums has a net margin of 10.50% compared to Inter Parfums' net margin of 2.70%. Herbalife's return on equity of 15.85% beat Inter Parfums' return on equity.
Inter Parfums has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Herbalife. Herbalife is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Inter Parfums, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
55.6% of Inter Parfums shares are owned by institutional investors. 43.9% of Inter Parfums shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Herbalife shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Inter Parfums has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Herbalife has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Inter Parfums currently has a consensus target price of $178.67, indicating a potential upside of 53.36%. Herbalife has a consensus target price of $10.70, indicating a potential downside of 4.72%. Given Herbalife's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Inter Parfums is more favorable than Herbalife.
In the previous week, Herbalife had 4 more articles in the media than Inter Parfums. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Herbalife and 3 mentions for Inter Parfums. Herbalife's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Inter Parfums' score of 0.31 indicating that Inter Parfums is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Herbalife received 260 more outperform votes than Inter Parfums when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.59% of users gave Herbalife an outperform vote while only 64.22% of users gave Inter Parfums an outperform vote.
Summary
Inter Parfums beats Herbalife on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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