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).
Herbalife (NYSE:HLF) and Inter Parfums (NASDAQ:IPAR) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, profitability and dividends.
In the previous week, Herbalife had 1 more articles in the media than Inter Parfums. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Herbalife and 5 mentions for Inter Parfums. Inter Parfums' average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Herbalife's score of 0.35 indicating that Inter Parfums is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Inter Parfums has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
Inter Parfums has a net margin of 10.50% compared to Herbalife's net margin of 2.70%. Inter Parfums' return on equity of 15.85% beat Herbalife's return on equity.
Herbalife has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Inter Parfums has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
55.6% of Inter Parfums shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Herbalife shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 43.9% of Inter Parfums shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Herbalife currently has a consensus target price of $10.70, indicating a potential downside of 4.72%. Inter Parfums has a consensus target price of $178.67, indicating a potential upside of 52.99%. Given Inter Parfums' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Inter Parfums is more favorable than Herbalife.
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 64.32% 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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