Nu Skin Enterprises Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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May 8, 2024

There are 7 speakers on the call.

Operator

Thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Q1 2024 Nu Skin Enterprise Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. After the speakers' presentation, there will be a question and answer Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded.

Operator

I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Scott Pond, Vice President, Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Speaker 1

Thanks, Michelle, and good afternoon, everyone. Today on the call with me are Ryan Napierski, President and CEO and James Thomas, CFO. On today's call, comments will be made that include some forward looking statements. These statements involve risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially from those discussed or anticipated. Please refer to today's earnings release and our SEC filings for a complete discussion of these risks.

Speaker 1

Also during the call, certain financial numbers may be discussed that differ from comparable numbers obtained in our financial statements. We believe these non GAAP numbers assist in comparing period to period results in a more consistent manner. Please refer to our investor website for any required reconciliation of non GAAP numbers. And now, I'd like to turn the call over to Ryan.

Speaker 2

Thanks, Scott. Hello, everyone. Thanks for joining us today. Having just returned from our top sales leader alignment and activation all in event in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, I'm eager to provide an update on the state of our business as we enter our 40 year anniversary pursuing our mission of being a global force for good by empowering people to look, feel and live better lives. I'll provide a performance summary for Q1 as well as a progress update on our ongoing enterprise transformation vision, strategy and plans.

Speaker 2

Our results for the Q1 were in line with guidance. At a high level, our business is on track with established expectations and we are maintaining our full year outlook. Revenue for the quarter was in the middle of our guidance range despite experiencing more FX pressure than we had anticipated. We were also pleased with our progress on expense reduction initiatives, which helped us deliver 1st quarter non GAAP earnings per share at the high end of our range. Our RISE business delivered another strong quarter with revenues up 57% to more than $62,000,000 dollars led by both our Mabley technology platform and Wasatch Manufacturing business.

Speaker 2

The revenue contribution from RISE accounted for approximately 15% of total enterprise revenue in the Q1 and we continue to expect this segment to account for 20% to 25% of our overall mix by 2025. Looking at the performance of our core Nu Skin business, our new product innovations delivered solid results. AgeLock WellSpa IO and RenuSpa IO, the holistic wellness and beauty devices we launched recently, along with ageLOC TR Me, our personalized weight management system that also launched in 2023 contributed approximately 42,000,000 to our Q1 revenue. Europe and Africa, there was a very favorable response to TRME during Q1. There were also positive trends in a handful of our Southeast Asia Pacific markets and we were encouraged by continued improvements in our sales leader trend in Mainland China despite a generally tepid macroeconomic climate.

Speaker 2

In other regions, we continue to battle macroeconomic challenges, including heavy inflationary pressures on consumer spending for premium goods, which together with our aggressive price increases from a year ago have hampered our customer and affiliate acquisition efforts. In the Americas region, our subscription business in North America continues to be pressured by these factors and we're making the housing market crisis, making it difficult to grow the housing market crisis, making it difficult to grow customers and build the channel. Consumer sentiment is also a factor in Japan in addition to significant FX pressure on our results. So to combat these external factors, we are placing more emphasis on product innovation in the affordable luxury space and we will be introducing several new products at our upcoming West and

Operator

East

Speaker 2

transforming our core Nu Skin business, while building out RISE in our long term beauty, wellness and lifestyle ecosystem. As I mentioned earlier, we just returned from our meetings with our top leaders where there was a palpable level of energy and excitement about the future. We introduced our next major product innovation, Mind 360, a new division targeted at the rapidly growing $10,000,000,000 cognitive health market. Mind360 takes a holistic approach to addressing the interrelated factors of stress, sleep and cognitive performance that are impacting the well-being of consumers in today's busy world. We're excited to preview events in Q3 with planned introductions of MIND360 to follow towards the end of the year and into 2025.

Speaker 2

Channel activation within our core Nu Skin business is a top priority for us and we're pleased to announce the promotion of Justin Kiesl as our new President of Global Sales. Justin has been leading the work to expand our affiliate model across the Americas over the past several years. He has extensive sales leadership experience both at Nu Skin and in prior roles and has demonstrated his commitment to our leader's success. Justin is spearheading our efforts to retool our entire global sales organization and bring a much more rigorous lens to the sales performance management and channel activation. To this end, we recently launched a new series of incentives, including a new customer acquisition and leadership performance program to reenergize the field.

Speaker 2

We anticipate these new initiatives to take root through the remainder of this year. Also, let me quickly give an update on last quarter's announcement of our intent to enter India, one of the fastest growing direct selling markets in the world. We are taking a very new approach to this high potential emerging market that will enable us to reach a much wider array of customers and entrepreneurs. Our product offering, business model and operational footprint will be synchronized to enable broader market mid market appeal. We are just beginning to activate our channel towards a targeted market opening in 2025 with a digital first approach that is more agile and will enable us to scale more quickly throughout the market.

Speaker 2

We see India and our emerging market business model as a gateway to many new markets in the future and anticipate these learnings will help us delve deeper into second and third tier markets within Latin America, Southeast Asia and China. Growing out Rides and our Rides business is a critical element of our overall enterprise vision as we seek to build out the world's leading beauty, wellness and lifestyle ecosystem. Over the past several years, we've constructed essential infrastructure consisting of manufacturing, technology and operations to support Nu Skin's core business, while enabling other brands to grow. We are now applying this ecosystem to BeautyBio to enable it to scale and see additional opportunities to extend our comprehensive suite of services spanning product R and D, production, packaging, cutting edge technology and logistics to the indie beauty and wellness industry for influencers and creators. We see great potential for this influencer incubator over the mid to long term and we are well positioned to capitalize on these opportunities as we lean into the disruption of the beauty and wellness industry due to social influencers and indie brands.

Speaker 2

We are utilizing our capital to invest in additional manufacturing, services, capabilities and opportunities to enable future growth. So in summary, Q1 results were in line with guidance and we are maintaining our 20 24 outlook. From a top line perspective, we are acutely focused on channel activation with new incentives and continue to lean into our product strategy, including the upcoming launch of MYNE 360 as well as affordable luxury. We also continue to invest in our RISE business to accelerate growth and further and transform our enterprise to leverage our competitive advantages within the beauty, wellness and lifestyle industries. Expense prudence remains a critical focus in 2024.

Speaker 2

And while we made significant progress on these initiatives during the Q1, there are still opportunities to drive further efficiency, including our SKU optimization plan to eliminate 25% to 30% of our SKUs by the end of 2025. Despite the challenging conditions in many of our markets in the near to mid term, we remain focused on executing our long term vision of becoming the world's leading integrated beauty and wellness ecosystem. And with that, I'll turn the call over to James to cover the Q1 results in more detail along with our guidance. James?

Speaker 3

Thank you, Ryan, and thanks to all of you for joining today. I'll provide a brief Q1 update and then speak to Q2 and 2024 guidance. For additional details, please visit our Investor Relations website. For the Q1, we posted revenue of $417,300,000 which was at the midpoint of our previous guidance range and included a negative foreign currency impact of 3.8 percent or $18,200,000 which created more pressure from our initial guidance. Reported earnings landed near the top end of our guidance range at negative $0.01 or $0.09 excluding restructuring charges.

Speaker 3

Our gross margin was 70.5% compared to 72.3% in the prior year quarter. Gross margin for the Nu Skin core business improved 50 basis points to 76.9% compared to 76.4% in the prior year quarter due to our SKU rationalization initiatives and targeted promotion mix. Selling expense as a percentage of revenue decreased to 36.8% compared to 39.1% in the prior year quarter. For the Nu Skin core business, selling expense was 41.7%, flat with the prior year. The lower overall gross margin and selling expense is due to growth in our RISE segments, which now accounts for 15% of our business.

Speaker 3

General and administrative expense declined $9,300,000 year over year and as a percentage of revenue was 29.9% compared to 27.8%. The increased percentage can be attributed to lower quarterly revenue levels. As previously discussed, we've been strategically evaluating our Nu Skin core business and better aligning our operating costs to be in line with revenue. In the Q1, we incurred an additional $7,100,000 restructuring charge and we will continue our cost efficiency plan through next quarter with an anticipated $3,000,000 to $8,000,000 of restructuring charges. We continue to expect this cost efficiency plan to deliver annual savings of between $40,000,000 $65,000,000 before taxes.

Speaker 3

We will continue to seek business efficiencies in all areas and believe these actions will help us maximize cash flows, focus on improved margins and enhanced earnings per share going forward. Our operating margin for the quarter was 2.1% or 3.8% excluding restructuring charges, compared to 3.3% or 5.4% excluding restructuring charges in the prior year. Our interest expense was $7,300,000 for the quarter compared to $4,900,000 in the prior year. The other income expense line reflects a $400,000 expense compared to a $3,400,000 gain in the prior year quarter. In the Q1, our cash flow from operations rose to a positive $3,300,000 driven by a concentrated effort on inventory management.

Speaker 3

In contrast with the $22,100,000 cash outflow in the same period last year. Cash from operations is typically the lowest in the first quarter due to lower revenue levels in what is seasonally our slowest quarter. We paid $3,000,000 in dividends and paid down our outstanding debt $20,000,000 in the quarter. We did not repurchase any stock and have $162,400,000 remaining on the current authorization. Our tax rate for the quarter was 148.4 percent or 48.5 percent excluding restructuring charges compared to 22%.

Speaker 3

For the Q2, we anticipate an elevated tax rate in the range of 45% to 55% and anticipate a projected 2024 annual tax rate of 25% to 35%. This annual rate reflects an anticipated higher global effective tax rate, primarily due to the expected geographical mix of earnings during the year and the rate impact from our stock awards in Q1. Shifting focus now to guidance. In light of the continued economic pressures, challenges associated with our transforming our business and increased volatility in foreign exchange rates, we are reiterating 2024 revenue in the 1,730,000,000 dollars to $1,870,000,000 range. We anticipate earnings per share of $0.77 to $1.16 or adjusted earnings of $0.95 to 1 $0.35 Our guidance now assumes an increased foreign currency headwind of approximately 2% to 3%.

Speaker 3

We are projecting 2nd quarter revenue of $420,000,000 to 4 55,000,000 assuming a foreign currency headwind of approximately 3% to 4% with reported earnings per share of $0.01 to 0 point 1 $0.10 or $0.10 to $0.20 excluding restructuring charges. And with that operator, we'll now open the call up for questions.

Operator

Thank Our first question comes from the line of Jason Binder with Citi. Your line is open. Please go ahead.

Speaker 4

Great. Thanks. Afternoon, guys. I wanted to first ask about kind of expectations for the remainder of the year. Looking specifically at the implied year over year currency growth, kind of based on the midpoint of the 2Q and the 2024 guidance, it seems to suggest that you guys are going to go from down 9.25 in the first half to about minus 3 in the second half?

Speaker 4

And if I look at the sales leaders, the customer counts and the affiliate numbers, even when adjusting for that change in qualification for affiliates, the trend looks like it's worsening. So the question is, what's really giving you confidence in confidence in that 2 second half improvement? And maybe can you just dimensionalize any of the initiatives that you expect to contribute to that improvement?

Speaker 2

Yes, Jason. Hey, great question and happy to drive into the high level side of that. And then James, if he has any to add to it, that's great. So really, as I mentioned, we have our as we came out of the top leader sales alignment event in Q2, really got clarity around channel activation plans and incentives built towards the channel, which is exactly what you're highlighting, concerns around those KPIs leading into Q3 when we have our live events. We're really looking at these activation incentives.

Speaker 2

We're looking at continued build of energy around India in open markets, to be clear, not in India itself, but in markets where we are open, where there are local Indian populations or what we call India eligible populations. And then our new products hitting market in both Mine 360 and Affordable Luxury, which are both priced and positioned to help combat the inflationary effects that have been had on kind of customer and affiliate acquisition growth. So we've aligned we've really aligned with the sales force to kind of attack at that level, both at the channel activation level and ensuring that we have the product ammunition to strengthen that as well. So that's kind of what we're looking at. I'd also say with RISE, we continue to expect to see favorable improvements there as well.

Speaker 2

James, anything you'd add?

Speaker 3

Yes. I would just call out that the similar to what you did in the channel activation that we see that we launched at the sales leader event coming on strong in the back half of the year with the in combination with the product introductions. And then seasonally, Q3 and Q4 have been stronger on the back half of the year in the beauty and wellness industry overall. So that's built into our forecast where we're still showing overall decline in Q3, but on the high end guiding towards year over year growth on the high currently.

Speaker 4

Got it. That's helpful. And then just Ryan, staying on your commentary about affordable luxury innovation, I want to give you an opportunity to kind of expand and elaborate on that. Perhaps address what categories and how quickly the products that you're bringing to market are actually going to hit? And I guess also more strategically, can you just give us an update on how you're thinking about the price architecture of the portfolio?

Speaker 4

And whether this makes sense or whether it makes sense to expand the portfolio kind of more meaningfully into this affordable massteeves level like you're doing now?

Speaker 2

Yes. No, exactly. You're right on point there. Maybe I'll start by describing the portfolio architecture, Chase, and then go to kind of what we see in the second half coming. We've really been looking at this for quite some time, obviously, with inflation being pressuring consumers around the globe as we've seen it and the effects that that has on channel growth because if you can't get customers, you can't grow the channel as a new business entrepreneur.

Speaker 2

And so we've really been looking at this, our global product team led by Steve Hatchett has put together a portfolio architecture that really helps us span better from the premium area, which is where we've always been focused from devices and premium goods down to this new tier, which kind of gets to that mass stage or affordable luxury level. We actually our research and development engine here at Nu Skin and with our manufacturing partners is very robust in this area. We manufacture for hundreds of brands. And so we're fairly familiar with the trends that are taking place, what is and isn't selling. And so with utilizing that kind of that expanded data and insights where we've looked at our second half portfolio, there are multiple product innovations that fit within that, call it, the affordable luxury range, which can range really from that $10 to $30 price point.

Speaker 2

And so we really are making intentional effort to expand the portfolio as well as reduce SKUs. So that clearly means we're going after, as we said, that 25% to 30% of overall SKUs, a lot of that is eliminating products that are in that the premium prestige levels that simply aren't selling with today's customers or selling at lower quantities and replacing those with the Masstige or the what we call affordable luxury. So that's kind of how we're approaching the portfolio side. It's a much more robust approach. We think it has much better appeal for the next 3 or 4 years.

Speaker 2

I mean, inflation, while that stabilized, clearly the pressure on the consumer wallet is still high. And so we need to play much better in that area. And that's what we're looking at. Now for second half, again, the good news is that from an R and D perspective, our teams have been cranking on product innovations and have dozens of products at any time that we're able to launch. The challenge is really getting alignment with our sales force so that when we launch a new product, it actually gets the right stage time that it needs for an understanding of how to sell it, the USPs, all of that.

Speaker 2

And so this is important for our live events in both East and West, at those events where we'll have those opportunities to explain these products, how they work, why they work the way they work, what the quality rationale is because clearly while we go to a more of an affordable luxury level, we do not sacrifice on quality. We're taking more of an elements level approach to innovation rather than having comprehensive innovations that might do 6 or 8 different customer benefits, really focusing on the 1 or 2 benefits that matter most, so that we can sustain high quality, sustain innovation, but at a more targeted and price conscious level. And so those products are coming out in Q3.

Speaker 4

Got you. That's really helpful color. And then if I can just sneak in one more. On the cost savings side, it seems like that's one area where you're making some really good progress. And I know you mentioned the SKU rationalization, but I was hoping you could expand on that and maybe contextualize and dimensionalize for us the other areas where you're seeing the biggest savings opportunities.

Speaker 4

And I guess related to that, again, you mentioned RISE as an area of focus, but perhaps expand on how you're thinking about reinvestment and the level of reinvestment in the business as those savings are realized?

Speaker 2

Yes. So really two questions Yes. So really two questions there that we'll approach. Cost savings, SKU rationalization is really, really important obviously. Operating in nearly 50 countries around the globe, it's fairly easy to get SKU proliferation.

Speaker 2

And so again, the same team, the global product team as they do this portfolio analysis, it's going literally product by product, SKU by SKU, market by market to determine which contributions are acceptable and which are not. Looking at R and D and I should be clear on this, our because of this manufacturing entity and Steve Hatchett coming from that world, he has an extremely in-depth view on total cost of fulfillment going all the way to raw goods and leveraging manufacturing capabilities to span not only the Nu Skin business, but drive down raw materials across businesses. And so this is a very comprehensive A to Z approach. Most of that actually Most of that actually has is coming through a more rigorous approach on discounts and promotions. And the SKU optimization will be future forward savings.

Speaker 2

And so I think it's really important to note that the benefits on gross margin are related to SKU optimization, but those benefits I think are forthcoming at a better level as the SKU elimination then rolls through the actual purchasing cycle to inventory, if that makes sense. So we do see SKU reduction. Again, 25% to 30% is our focus, including adding new products in the affordable luxury space in the Mine 360 lines and then being very aggressive on ineffective or less effective discounts and promotions, which by the way don't always work well for the sales force anyways, right. If there's too many promotions, they don't know what to focus on. So that's kind of cost savings side.

Speaker 2

James, anything you would add to that?

Speaker 3

I would you touched on the one, Jason, for you. The savings from the SKU rationalization really is a forward savings because we were trying to mitigate the offset of the inventory levels that we currently have on hand of those existing products and making sure that we have runway for those products. But as we work through them, that's when we'll start to see those additional savings, which we're already starting to see in several of the products that have gone through in the quarter, but more savings to come out past out in through 2025.

Speaker 2

And I think on the RISE side, you had asked about what do we do with the savings. This is the and this is probably James' forte in how he scrutinizes every dollar that we're spending. And James always goes through the philosophy on cash management, but it's the same for the Aviso, reinvest in growth. So wherever we need to grow, that's our top priority. RISE clearly, as we talk about additional infrastructure capability services to build out there.

Speaker 2

We're clearly focusing on investment there. We continue to focus on product innovation. It's the heart of the Nu Skin core business. It's also the heart of what we're doing on RISE. It's all around innovation and new technology.

Speaker 2

So a lot of the cost savings go back to that. And then of course, as we continue to be very focused on shareholder value, we recognize that the stock price has been challenged and pressured as earnings have come down. We're very focused on returning

Operator

Yes.

Speaker 3

Yes. The only other addition that I would add to that, Ryan, is just international market expansion through India. Yes. We should have called that out. For the core to get the core give the core some legs to respond in terms of where we're currently at.

Speaker 3

That's a big part of that go forward with the incentive programs that are in place.

Speaker 2

Yes. And Jason, I will tag on James' point about India because I said that earlier, but truly Nu Skin has always played in a premium and developed market arena, right. Our biggest markets tend to be those that are more developed economically. We are as I said, we are putting intensive focus with our partners locally in India. We manage the Infosys, the deep partnership we have there, we announced last quarter, further going there.

Speaker 2

They're obviously digital experts in the field. We're taking a very intentional approach there to be able to hit the right point in that market, which is grow obviously a very large market, 1,400,000,000 people, growing middle class, very astute, very educated, strong technology prowess. And as we do that, we see those benefits going into developing markets where today we haven't been as successful. Latin America is a great case in point, where there's an enormous opportunity there in our core business and we've yet to tap that. And so how do we expand there?

Speaker 2

Southeast Asia, when you look at Indonesia, Malaysia, when we look at East Europe, when we look at future Africa, Middle East, etcetera, there's just a lot we'll be learning. So we see India as being very much a learning opportunity for us. Of course, in the mid to long term, this is something that we're very focused on, but we're doing the work now that we believe will benefit even in our current markets, developing markets. So, yes, big investment there.

Speaker 4

Got you. Really helpful color. Thanks so much guys. I'll pass it on from there.

Speaker 2

Thank you. Thanks, Jason.

Operator

Thank you. And one moment as we move on to our next question. Our next question is going to come from the line of Sydney Wagner with Jefferies. Your line is open. Please go ahead.

Speaker 5

Hi. This is Sydney on for Ashley. You noted macro pressure weighing on customer and terms of macro related spending behavior from your consumers?

Speaker 2

Yes. It's a really Yes, it's a really interesting market as you know, right, luxury goods continue to move in certain regards in automobiles and bags, handbags the like. Our connected device business continues to do well. It continues to be the number one cited social media, eyeball attraction on social media, obviously for the appeal of the LumiSpa and now RenewSpa and the U. S.

Speaker 2

WellSpa, we get a lot of attraction to that and people really aspire to purchase those. But nobody can really deny, as we look around the globe, pressures in China, pressures in Korea, pressures in Japan, even in the U. S. As we see that real CPI, these reports that are coming out, no one can deny the inflation has been well beyond probably what's reported in some of these reports. And we see that floating through our business as people have to make trade off decisions around utility bills versus the next Nu Skin Innovation.

Speaker 2

And so we're very focused on the affordable luxury place. We've also, by the way, built Mind 360 to be very price conscious. So this is I'm excited about that because these are innovations that are needed by the mass markets, the stress and the needs there at the customer level. So we're being very intentional. We're being very deliberate.

Speaker 2

As we look out to the future, obviously, inflation doesn't increased prices generally don't roll off, right? You see very few companies that roll back pricing as like Walmart, for instance, probably do as a retailer. Most markets, once the pricing of raw goods is in this system, it typically is hard to pull back out. So it's really upon us to figure out how to innovate new solutions to market that feel the customer need at the right price point. And so we see as we're as our ability to impact consumers at a more price appropriate level with new product innovations, we see that alleviating.

Speaker 2

And then at the macro level, obviously, as wages increase over time, which we see that that's continuously going on. We see purchasing capabilities improving around the globe. So our approach right now, control what we can control. What we can control is product innovation. And that's where we're focused on new products coming to market at the right price points to give consumers what they need and do it at a better level.

Speaker 2

All the while, I think devices will continue to be a strong appeal because people, the demand for those are high and the interest on social media continues to be very strong.

Speaker 3

Ryan, I'd add. Thank you. I was going to say, I would just add one point to that on the devices. When we look in current quarter results quarter over quarter, we went from devices made up 14% of our revenue to this quarter 17% of our revenue. So continues to have strong demand for our devices.

Speaker 3

And what we look forward to in the back half of the year is that in combination with affordable luxury to Ryan's point of playing in both market spaces, we hope to garner some traction through that.

Speaker 2

Thanks, Sydney.

Operator

Thank you. And one moment as we move on to our next question. Our next question comes from the line of Linda Bolton Weiser with D. A. Davidson.

Operator

Your line is open. Please go ahead.

Speaker 6

Yes. Hi. So I was wondering, if you could maybe remind us in terms of the beauty device business that you bought, the one that's distributed at retail, I think it's an Ulta. How is that informing your rest of your business, the core business? Like I kind of need a refresher here on what your intent was.

Speaker 6

Like is it to get the technology or the marketing know how? Just, what was the intent there? And how is that going? Are you getting out of it what you wanted in terms of that acquisition? Thanks.

Speaker 2

Yes. Great question, Linda. Good to hear from you as well. Thanks for joining. Yes, so BeautyBio is the name of the company that we acquired last year, and it's we're now in our 3rd quarter with the team.

Speaker 2

So we're still kind of learning that business. It's a really interesting business for a lot of reasons. One, as you mentioned, they have unique IP that we don't have or patents that we didn't have previously. And we continue to aspire to be the beauty device leader across the board. So we want that capability.

Speaker 2

That's great. They also have very good insight into the omni approach. Jamie O'Banion and team are they're a small and agile, but well in formed team across the omni space, which we believe is very helpful across the RISE ecosystem. And so that's really helpful. And the 3rd part of that, and maybe it's a subset of this is, it is an influencer led brand.

Speaker 2

So Jamie her self, the brand was born out of kind of her own views of beauty. And this as you know in the beauty and wellness space for the largest beauty companies is quite an interesting disruption of how influencers are disrupting these traditional beauty brands. We've often felt for a long time, if we could take the best of Nu Skin, which is a bunch of affiliates out there marketing beauty and wellness products and then find indie brands that are founded by influencers themselves to learn how to play across those worlds over time, I think it's the greatest opportunity in beauty and wellness period. So for us, Beauty Bio, it's very much we're learning the business. We're learning a lot of things around Omni and the Ulta, the Sephora relationships, other great retailer partners that are important.

Speaker 2

For me, the most important part of it is this influencer and creator disruption that's happening in beauty and leveraging the insights and the know how there as we continue to build out this I alluded to it or mentioned it in my comments, but this influencer incubator, we think this is a real opportunity for the midterm. And I think beauty brands and wellness brands around the globe need to be paying very particular attention to the influencer segment and how do you help brands stand up in a very competitive red ocean space when they have a captured audience because they're an influencer themselves and all influencers looking to monetize those brands? How do you institutionalize it and or a mechanism to do that? That's what we're calling the RISE influencer incubator business.

Speaker 6

Okay. And then, I just had a question on the MYM360 product line. I guess I'm just wondering, I mean, on your supplement side of your business, I believe you have products that are sort of addressing those needs. Maybe I'm mistaken, but maybe you could describe like how this launch is different. Does it put together several different products in a suite of products that people will buy?

Speaker 6

Or like are these actual in ingestible form products? Like what maybe just give a little more color on what they are?

Speaker 2

No, you hit the nail on the head, Linda. In fact, by the way, I should mention anyone, if you are interested in attending our live event, again, it's a West Live. So it's not our traditional global event because we have challenges with visas now post COVID, but it's a West live event and you're all welcome to come just contact Scott Pond, and he can get you information and we'll certainly help out. The MIN360 itself, yes, very much what is different, we do have Pharmanex R and D and Pharmanex products that address specific concerns in the cognitive health space, sleep, stress, etcetera. We've never had a holistic approach that really an interrelated approach to developing this space.

Speaker 2

And what we mean by that is if you think through the consumer lifestyle, a lack of sleep impacts stress levels. It impacts cognitive performance, memory, recognition, etcetera. So if you're not sleeping well, it has effects on your cognitive performance. If your cognitive performance isn't working well, it impacts your stress, which impacts your sleep. So these products have been developed in a holistic form so that they all interrelate and attack the broader lifestyle comprehensively.

Speaker 2

In terms of delivery form, we're pretty excited about that. They're taking multiple forms. So not only will they be in supplement form, but there will be gummies as part of this, which we know for the 20s 30 year old segments are much more popular. We even have drinkable tea type mix ins. And so it's a pretty customized approach that we're taking.

Speaker 2

And the last thing I'll say about MYND360 is we're taking sustainability to a very to the next level across our business with the packaging. We're taking a wholly new approach, packaging much more sustainable, the economic the implant on the planet is going to be so much better with these products. And so we're excited about that approach as well.

Speaker 6

Okay. Thank you very much.

Speaker 2

Thanks, Linda. Appreciate it. It looks like we are through the questions and I appreciate that additional those questions are helpful for us as well to fine tune what we present on the call. So thank you for the questions. Let me just wrap up by saying that it's been interesting.

Speaker 2

I've been on this journey with Nu Skin now 29 years, but we've been in business for 40 years. And we've been in the business of being a global force for good by empowering people to look, feel and live better lives. I can tell you coming out of Dubai with our sales leader team, the energy, I'm feeling a new sense of energy in the market. The macros are still not great, not favorable, but our sales force is very much aligned and committed to this vision or this mission of the company and our vision of becoming the world's leading beauty, wellness and lifestyle ecosystem as we continue to evolve our Nu Skin core business and expand our capabilities through RISE. We see the world coming together in this ecosystem to be much brighter.

Speaker 2

So I just appreciate your time and attention to Nu Skin and we look forward to providing better and better results and greater shareholder value return as we realize the benefits of this vision. So thank you all. We look forward to updating you next month or next quarter on the call. Bye bye.

Operator

This concludes today's conference call. Thank you for participating. You may now disconnect.

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Key Takeaways

  • Revenue for Q1 matched guidance midpoint at $417.3 M despite a ~3.8% FX headwind, and non-GAAP EPS of $0.09 exceeded the high end of the range.
  • The RISE segment grew 57% year-over-year to $62 M, representing 15% of enterprise revenue, and is on track to comprise 20–25% of total revenue by 2025.
  • New product launches—ageLOC WellSpa IO, RenuSpa IO and ageLOC TR Me—contributed $42 M to Q1 revenue, with strong adoption in Europe, Africa and select Asia-Pacific markets.
  • To combat macroeconomic headwinds, Nu Skin is emphasizing affordable luxury innovations, introducing new customer acquisition and leadership incentives, and promoting Justin Kiesl to President of Global Sales to boost channel activation.
  • Nu Skin unveiled Mind360, a new division targeting the $10 B cognitive health market (launch late 2024/2025), and plans a digital-first entry into India in 2025 to broaden market reach.
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Earnings Conference Call
Nu Skin Enterprises Q1 2024
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