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).
Nu Skin Enterprises (NYSE:NUS) and Herbalife (NYSE:HLF) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation and profitability.
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. Nu Skin Enterprises' average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat Herbalife's score of 0.64 indicating that Nu Skin Enterprises is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Nu Skin Enterprises has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Herbalife has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Herbalife has a net margin of 2.70% compared to Nu Skin Enterprises' net margin of -0.17%. Nu Skin Enterprises' return on equity of 9.28% beat Herbalife's 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.
82.8% of Nu Skin Enterprises shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of Nu Skin Enterprises shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Herbalife shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Nu Skin Enterprises presently has a consensus target price of $20.83, suggesting a potential upside of 56.05%. Herbalife has a consensus target price of $10.50, suggesting a potential upside of 1.94%. Given Nu Skin Enterprises' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities 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.
Summary
Herbalife beats Nu Skin Enterprises on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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