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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Summary
Herbalife beats USANA Health Sciences on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:HLF) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
