HLF vs. PBH, IPAR, NUS, USNA, NATR, MED, VERU, EL, NSIT, and TGLS
Should you be buying Herbalife stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Herbalife include Prestige Consumer Healthcare (PBH), Interparfums (IPAR), Nu Skin Enterprises (NUS), USANA Health Sciences (USNA), Nature's Sunshine Products (NATR), MEDIFAST (MED), Veru (VERU), Estee Lauder Companies (EL), Insight Enterprises (NSIT), and Tecnoglass (TGLS).
Herbalife vs. Its Competitors
Herbalife (NYSE:HLF) and Prestige Consumer Healthcare (NYSE:PBH) are both personal products companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Herbalife has higher revenue and earnings than Prestige Consumer Healthcare. Herbalife is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Prestige Consumer Healthcare, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Herbalife has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Prestige Consumer Healthcare has a beta of 0.44, suggesting that its share price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Herbalife presently has a consensus target price of $11.50, suggesting a potential upside of 33.18%. Prestige Consumer Healthcare has a consensus target price of $94.80, suggesting a potential upside of 53.05%. Given Prestige Consumer Healthcare's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Prestige Consumer Healthcare is more favorable than Herbalife.
100.0% of Prestige Consumer Healthcare shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of Herbalife shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Prestige Consumer Healthcare shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Prestige Consumer Healthcare has a net margin of 19.02% compared to Herbalife's net margin of 6.59%. Prestige Consumer Healthcare's return on equity of 12.69% beat Herbalife's return on equity.
In the previous week, Prestige Consumer Healthcare had 8 more articles in the media than Herbalife. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Prestige Consumer Healthcare and 4 mentions for Herbalife. Prestige Consumer Healthcare's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Herbalife's score of 0.65 indicating that Prestige Consumer Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Prestige Consumer Healthcare beats Herbalife on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:HLF) was last updated on 10/17/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff