HLF vs. SBH, KRUS, CBRL, FWRG, HIBB, JACK, FVRR, CARS, FIGS, and SCVL
Should you be buying Herbalife stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Herbalife include Sally Beauty (SBH), Kura Sushi USA (KRUS), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), First Watch Restaurant Group (FWRG), Hibbett (HIBB), Jack in the Box (JACK), Fiverr International (FVRR), Cars.com (CARS), FIGS (FIGS), and Shoe Carnival (SCVL). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Herbalife (NYSE:HLF) and Sally Beauty (NYSE:SBH) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation and profitability.
Sally Beauty has a net margin of 4.36% compared to Herbalife's net margin of 2.70%. Sally Beauty's return on equity of 34.23% beat Herbalife's return on equity.
Herbalife currently has a consensus price target of $10.50, indicating a potential downside of 2.33%. Sally Beauty has a consensus price target of $12.00, indicating a potential upside of 7.14%. Given Sally Beauty's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Sally Beauty is more favorable than Herbalife.
Herbalife has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sally Beauty has a beta of 1.49, indicating that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sally Beauty has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Herbalife. Sally Beauty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Herbalife, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Herbalife received 275 more outperform votes than Sally Beauty when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.59% of users gave Herbalife an outperform vote while only 55.63% of users gave Sally Beauty an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Herbalife had 3 more articles in the media than Sally Beauty. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Herbalife and 2 mentions for Sally Beauty. Sally Beauty's average media sentiment score of 1.82 beat Herbalife's score of 1.24 indicating that Sally Beauty is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Sally Beauty beats Herbalife on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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