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HLF vs. USNA, NUS, NATR, MED, VERU, EL, PBH, IPAR, COSM, and HWH

Should you be buying Herbalife stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Herbalife include USANA Health Sciences (USNA), Nu Skin Enterprises (NUS), Nature's Sunshine Products (NATR), Medifast (MED), Veru (VERU), Estée Lauder Companies (EL), Prestige Consumer Healthcare (PBH), Inter Parfums (IPAR), Cosmos Health (COSM), and HWH International (HWH).

Herbalife vs.

USANA Health Sciences (NYSE:USNA) and Herbalife (NYSE:HLF) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, dividends and community ranking.

USANA Health Sciences presently has a consensus target price of $36.00, indicating a potential upside of 19.74%. Herbalife has a consensus target price of $11.50, indicating a potential upside of 65.23%. Given Herbalife's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Herbalife is more favorable than USANA Health Sciences.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
USANA Health Sciences
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Herbalife
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.75

USANA Health Sciences has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Herbalife has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Herbalife received 320 more outperform votes than USANA Health Sciences when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.29% of users gave Herbalife an outperform vote while only 60.42% of users gave USANA Health Sciences an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
USANA Health SciencesOutperform Votes
400
60.42%
Underperform Votes
262
39.58%
HerbalifeOutperform Votes
720
67.29%
Underperform Votes
350
32.71%

In the previous week, USANA Health Sciences and USANA Health Sciences both had 3 articles in the media. USANA Health Sciences' average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Herbalife's score of 0.97 indicating that USANA Health Sciences is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
USANA Health Sciences
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Herbalife
3 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

54.3% of USANA Health Sciences shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of USANA Health Sciences shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Herbalife shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

USANA Health Sciences has a net margin of 6.30% compared to Herbalife's net margin of 5.09%. USANA Health Sciences' return on equity of 10.64% beat Herbalife's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
USANA Health Sciences6.30% 10.64% 8.48%
Herbalife 5.09%-20.78%7.48%

Herbalife has higher revenue and earnings than USANA Health Sciences. Herbalife is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than USANA Health Sciences, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
USANA Health Sciences$876.24M0.64$63.79M$1.8216.52
Herbalife$4.95B0.14$142.20M$2.742.54

Summary

Herbalife beats USANA Health Sciences on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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HLF vs. The Competition

MetricHerbalifeDrugs, proprietaries, & sundries IndustryRetail SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$708.86M$22.40B$25.20B$19.30B
Dividend YieldN/A1.33%169.81%3.83%
P/E Ratio2.8012.6424.4634.53
Price / Sales0.149.783.9734.84
Price / Cash2.5212.9519.4117.51
Price / Book-0.8832.956.104.69
Net Income$142.20M$785.39M$784.05M$1.02B
7 Day Performance-1.21%-1.12%-1.36%-2.43%
1 Month Performance6.50%7.76%9.31%6.27%
1 Year Performance-35.88%-7.66%9.03%5.78%

Herbalife Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
HLF
Herbalife
4.5012 of 5 stars
$6.96
+2.7%
$11.50
+65.2%
-38.3%$708.86M$4.95B2.8010,100Analyst Downgrade
USNA
USANA Health Sciences
4.2847 of 5 stars
$30.07
-0.7%
$36.00
+19.7%
-38.1%$559.99M$876.24M10.631,900Analyst Upgrade
NUS
Nu Skin Enterprises
3.087 of 5 stars
$7.47
-1.5%
$6.88
-8.0%
-46.2%$371.43M$1.68B-2.5313,400Positive News
NATR
Nature's Sunshine Products
2.7467 of 5 stars
$14.88
+0.1%
$18.33
+23.2%
-7.6%$273.06M$456.62M16.91850
MED
Medifast
3.3694 of 5 stars
$13.98
-0.1%
$16.50
+18.0%
-45.2%$153.65M$543.45M77.67870Positive News
Analyst Revision
VERU
Veru
1.5052 of 5 stars
$0.52
+0.1%
$4.00
+669.4%
-64.2%$76.21M$16.89M-2.00230
EL
Estée Lauder Companies
4.2684 of 5 stars
$65.35
+0.3%
$75.20
+15.1%
-50.7%$23.51B$14.79B-33.5163,000Positive News
PBH
Prestige Consumer Healthcare
3.6948 of 5 stars
$89.01
-0.1%
$93.33
+4.9%
+31.1%$4.40B$1.14B20.85540Positive News
IPAR
Inter Parfums
3.9585 of 5 stars
$128.17
+1.1%
$157.60
+23.0%
+11.0%$4.12B$1.47B27.50530Trending News
Analyst Revision
COSM
Cosmos Health
2.543 of 5 stars
$0.43
flat
N/A-36.7%$11.71M$54.43M-0.18100Positive News
Gap Down
HWH
HWH International
N/A$1.55
+4.0%
N/A-77.3%$10.04M$1.25M0.00N/AGap Down

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This page (NYSE:HLF) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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