NATR vs. HLF, USNA, NUS, MED, VERU, EL, IPAR, PBH, AUPH, and ARDX
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), Estee Lauder Companies (EL), Interparfums (IPAR), Prestige Consumer Healthcare (PBH), Aurinia Pharmaceuticals (AUPH), and Ardelyx (ARDX).
Nature's Sunshine Products vs. Its Competitors
Nature's Sunshine Products (NASDAQ:NATR) and Herbalife (NYSE:HLF) are both small-cap personal products companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Herbalife had 6 more articles in the media than Nature's Sunshine Products. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Herbalife and 2 mentions for Nature's Sunshine Products. Nature's Sunshine Products' average media sentiment score of 1.59 beat Herbalife's score of 0.65 indicating that Nature's Sunshine Products is being referred to more favorably in the media.
79.4% of Nature's Sunshine Products shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.7% of Nature's Sunshine Products shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Herbalife shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Nature's Sunshine Products currently has a consensus target price of $18.33, suggesting a potential upside of 17.37%. Herbalife has a consensus target price of $11.50, suggesting a potential upside of 13.19%. Given Nature's Sunshine Products' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Nature's Sunshine Products is more favorable than Herbalife.
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 1.14, suggesting that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Herbalife has a beta of 0.89, suggesting that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Herbalife has a net margin of 5.66% compared to Nature's Sunshine Products' net margin of 2.22%. Nature's Sunshine Products' return on equity of 6.98% beat Herbalife's return on equity.
Summary
Nature's Sunshine Products beats Herbalife on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NASDAQ:NATR) was last updated on 7/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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