HLF vs. PTLO, SCVL, ETD, HIBB, FIGS, FVRR, BJRI, CARS, GOOS, and JACK
Should you be buying Herbalife stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Herbalife include Portillo's (PTLO), Shoe Carnival (SCVL), Ethan Allen Interiors (ETD), Hibbett (HIBB), FIGS (FIGS), Fiverr International (FVRR), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), Cars.com (CARS), Canada Goose (GOOS), and Jack in the Box (JACK). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Portillo's (NASDAQ:PTLO) and Herbalife (NYSE:HLF) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, earnings and risk.
In the previous week, Portillo's had 4 more articles in the media than Herbalife. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Portillo's and 6 mentions for Herbalife. Portillo's' average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Herbalife's score of 0.21 indicating that Herbalife is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Portillo's has a beta of 1.85, indicating that its share price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Herbalife has a beta of 1.22, indicating that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Herbalife has higher revenue and earnings than Portillo's. Herbalife is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Portillo's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
98.3% of Portillo's shares are held by institutional investors. 7.2% of Portillo's shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Herbalife shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Herbalife received 686 more outperform votes than Portillo's when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.72% of users gave Herbalife an outperform vote while only 44.19% of users gave Portillo's an outperform vote.
Portillo's currently has a consensus target price of $22.43, suggesting a potential upside of 86.44%. Herbalife has a consensus target price of $10.50, suggesting a potential upside of 19.18%. Given Herbalife's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Portillo's is more favorable than Herbalife.
Herbalife has a net margin of 2.81% compared to Herbalife's net margin of 2.71%. Herbalife's return on equity of 4.79% beat Portillo's' return on equity.
Summary
Portillo's beats Herbalife on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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