VERU vs. NATR, MED, XERS, EL, IPAR, PBH, HLF, USNA, NUS, and SVRA
Should you be buying Veru stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Veru include Nature's Sunshine Products (NATR), Medifast (MED), Xeris Biopharma (XERS), Estée Lauder Companies (EL), Inter Parfums (IPAR), Prestige Consumer Healthcare (PBH), Herbalife (HLF), USANA Health Sciences (USNA), Nu Skin Enterprises (NUS), and Savara (SVRA).
Veru (NASDAQ:VERU) and Nature's Sunshine Products (NASDAQ:NATR) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Veru presently has a consensus target price of $4.00, suggesting a potential upside of 296.04%. Nature's Sunshine Products has a consensus target price of $24.00, suggesting a potential upside of 56.66%. Given Veru's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Veru is more favorable than Nature's Sunshine Products.
Veru received 109 more outperform votes than Nature's Sunshine Products when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.59% of users gave Veru an outperform vote while only 62.89% of users gave Nature's Sunshine Products an outperform vote.
Veru has a beta of -0.47, suggesting that its stock price is 147% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nature's Sunshine Products has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Nature's Sunshine Products had 4 more articles in the media than Veru. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Nature's Sunshine Products and 2 mentions for Veru. Nature's Sunshine Products' average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat Veru's score of 1.04 indicating that Nature's Sunshine Products is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Nature's Sunshine Products has a net margin of 3.69% compared to Veru's net margin of -265.27%. Nature's Sunshine Products' return on equity of 10.59% beat Veru's return on equity.
Nature's Sunshine Products has higher revenue and earnings than Veru. Veru is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nature's Sunshine Products, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
47.2% of Veru shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.4% of Nature's Sunshine Products shares are held by institutional investors. 14.2% of Veru shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.7% of Nature's Sunshine Products shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Nature's Sunshine Products beats Veru on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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