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

Should you be buying Nu Skin Enterprises stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nu Skin Enterprises include Herbalife (HLF), USANA Health Sciences (USNA), 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).

Nu Skin Enterprises vs.

Nu Skin Enterprises (NYSE:NUS) and Herbalife (NYSE:HLF) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, risk, community ranking, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.

Herbalife has a net margin of 5.09% compared to Nu Skin Enterprises' net margin of -8.46%. Nu Skin Enterprises' return on equity of 5.86% beat Herbalife's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Nu Skin Enterprises-8.46% 5.86% 2.62%
Herbalife 5.09%-20.78%7.48%

Nu Skin Enterprises pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Herbalife pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 18.1%. Nu Skin Enterprises pays out -8.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Herbalife pays out 48.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.

Nu Skin Enterprises presently has a consensus price target of $6.88, suggesting a potential upside of 11.72%. Herbalife has a consensus price target of $11.50, suggesting a potential upside of 73.45%. Given Herbalife's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Herbalife is more favorable than Nu Skin Enterprises.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Nu Skin Enterprises
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

In the previous week, Herbalife had 26 more articles in the media than Nu Skin Enterprises. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Herbalife and 1 mentions for Nu Skin Enterprises. Nu Skin Enterprises' average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Herbalife's score of 0.47 indicating that Nu Skin Enterprises is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Nu Skin Enterprises
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Herbalife
3 Very Positive mention(s)
7 Positive mention(s)
12 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

82.8% of Nu Skin Enterprises shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of Nu Skin Enterprises shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Herbalife shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Herbalife received 207 more outperform votes than Nu Skin Enterprises when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.35% of users gave Herbalife an outperform vote while only 63.81% of users gave Nu Skin Enterprises an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Nu Skin EnterprisesOutperform Votes
513
63.81%
Underperform Votes
291
36.19%
HerbalifeOutperform Votes
720
67.35%
Underperform Votes
349
32.65%

Nu Skin Enterprises has a beta of 1.1, meaning that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Herbalife has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Nu Skin Enterprises$1.73B0.18-$146.59M-$2.95-2.09
Herbalife$4.99B0.13$142.20M$2.492.66

Summary

Herbalife beats Nu Skin Enterprises on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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NUS vs. The Competition

MetricNu Skin EnterprisesDrugs, proprietaries, & sundries IndustryStaples SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$306.00M$22.95B$17.29B$18.96B
Dividend Yield4.11%1.52%2.92%4.01%
P/E Ratio-2.0912.8315.5032.87
Price / Sales0.189.864.1028.03
Price / Cash3.4412.9516.3917.52
Price / Book0.4733.146.284.47
Net Income-$146.59M$785.39M$731.54M$1.02B
7 Day Performance6.84%1.53%0.86%0.59%
1 Month Performance-13.93%-2.81%-0.83%-3.54%
1 Year Performance-49.35%-9.43%-2.92%3.80%

Nu Skin Enterprises Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
NUS
Nu Skin Enterprises
3.8172 of 5 stars
$6.15
-2.8%
$6.88
+11.7%
-47.9%$306.00M$1.73B-2.0913,400Upcoming Earnings
HLF
Herbalife
4.5116 of 5 stars
$6.90
+3.4%
$12.00
+73.9%
-23.6%$699.25M$4.99B2.7710,100Earnings Report
Analyst Downgrade
Gap Down
USNA
USANA Health Sciences
4.6207 of 5 stars
$27.47
+1.1%
$36.00
+31.1%
-38.5%$518.08M$876.24M9.711,900
NATR
Nature's Sunshine Products
3.0784 of 5 stars
$11.82
+3.1%
$19.00
+60.7%
-36.4%$218.48M$454.36M13.43850Upcoming Earnings
Positive News
High Trading Volume
MED
Medifast
3.87 of 5 stars
$12.56
+1.8%
$16.50
+31.4%
-50.7%$137.38M$602.46M69.78870Earnings Report
Analyst Upgrade
VERU
Veru
2.2858 of 5 stars
$0.52
-2.6%
$4.33
+727.1%
-64.8%$76.69M$16.89M-2.02230Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
Positive News
EL
Estée Lauder Companies
4.7674 of 5 stars
$59.10
-0.5%
$81.57
+38.0%
-53.9%$21.22B$15.18B-30.3163,000Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
PBH
Prestige Consumer Healthcare
4.0682 of 5 stars
$81.00
+0.6%
$93.33
+15.2%
+16.0%$4.01B$1.12B18.97540Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Upgrade
Positive News
IPAR
Inter Parfums
4.0047 of 5 stars
$108.12
-0.3%
$157.60
+45.8%
-5.7%$3.47B$1.45B23.20530Upcoming Earnings
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
COSM
Cosmos Health
2.4975 of 5 stars
$0.42
-1.2%
N/A-30.8%$11.35M$54.43M-0.17100Short Interest ↓
Positive News
HWH
HWH International
N/A$1.16
-3.3%
N/A-88.9%$7.51M$1.25M0.00N/A

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