NUS vs. HLF, USNA, NATR, MED, VERU, EL, IPAR, PBH, PETQ, 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), Inter Parfums (IPAR), Prestige Consumer Healthcare (PBH), PetIQ (PETQ), and HWH International (HWH).
Herbalife (NYSE:HLF) and Nu Skin Enterprises (NYSE:NUS) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability and community ranking.
Herbalife presently has a consensus target price of $10.50, suggesting a potential upside of 1.94%. Nu Skin Enterprises has a consensus target price of $20.83, suggesting a potential upside of 56.05%. Given Herbalife's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Nu Skin Enterprises is more favorable than Herbalife.
Herbalife received 196 more outperform votes than Nu Skin Enterprises when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.62% of users gave Herbalife an outperform vote while only 64.23% of users gave Nu Skin Enterprises an outperform vote.
82.8% of Nu Skin Enterprises shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Herbalife shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Nu Skin Enterprises shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Herbalife has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nu Skin Enterprises has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Herbalife had 2 more articles in the media than Nu Skin Enterprises. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Herbalife and 4 mentions for Nu Skin Enterprises. Herbalife's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Nu Skin Enterprises' score of 0.79 indicating that Nu Skin Enterprises is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Herbalife has a net margin of 2.70% compared to Herbalife's net margin of -0.17%. Herbalife's return on equity of 9.28% beat Nu Skin Enterprises' return on equity.
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.
Summary
Herbalife beats Nu Skin Enterprises on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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