NATR vs. HLF, USNA, NUS, MED, VERU, EL, PBH, IPAR, SNDX, and PCRX
Should you be buying Nature's Sunshine Products stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nature's Sunshine Products include Herbalife (HLF), USANA Health Sciences (USNA), Nu Skin Enterprises (NUS), Medifast (MED), Veru (VERU), Estée Lauder Companies (EL), Prestige Consumer Healthcare (PBH), Inter Parfums (IPAR), Syndax Pharmaceuticals (SNDX), and Pacira BioSciences (PCRX).
Nature's Sunshine Products vs.
Nature's Sunshine Products (NASDAQ:NATR) and Herbalife (NYSE:HLF) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, risk, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership and dividends.
Herbalife received 549 more outperform votes than Nature's Sunshine Products when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.20% of users gave Herbalife an outperform vote while only 63.60% of users gave Nature's Sunshine Products an outperform vote.
Nature's Sunshine Products currently has a consensus target price of $19.00, suggesting a potential upside of 46.27%. Herbalife has a consensus target price of $9.90, suggesting a potential upside of 17.58%. Given Nature's Sunshine Products' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Nature's Sunshine Products is more favorable than Herbalife.
Herbalife has a net margin of 5.09% compared to Nature's Sunshine Products' net margin of 3.81%. Nature's Sunshine Products' return on equity of 11.08% beat Herbalife's return on equity.
79.4% of Nature's Sunshine Products shares are held by institutional investors. 4.7% of Nature's Sunshine Products shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Herbalife shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Nature's Sunshine Products pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Herbalife pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.3%. Nature's Sunshine Products pays out 100.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Herbalife pays out 48.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Herbalife is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Nature's Sunshine Products had 3 more articles in the media than Herbalife. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Nature's Sunshine Products and 12 mentions for Herbalife. Nature's Sunshine Products' average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat Herbalife's score of 0.61 indicating that Nature's Sunshine Products is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Herbalife has higher revenue and earnings than Nature's Sunshine Products. Herbalife 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.
Nature's Sunshine Products has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Herbalife has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Nature's Sunshine Products and Herbalife tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:NATR) was last updated on 3/17/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
