Herbalife Nutrition Stock Buy Hold or Sell Recommendation

HLF Stock  USD 8.59  0.36  4.37%   
Considering the 90-day investment horizon and your above-average risk tolerance, our recommendation regarding Herbalife Nutrition is 'Cautious Hold'. Macroaxis provides Herbalife Nutrition buy-hold-or-sell recommendation only in the context of selected investment horizon and investor attitude towards risk assumed by holding HLF positions. The advice algorithm takes into account all of Herbalife Nutrition's available fundamental, technical, and predictive indicators you will find on this site. Key drivers impacting Herbalife Nutrition's buy or sell advice are summarized below:
Real Value
11.35
Target Price
20.7
Hype Value
8.37
Market Value
8.59
Naive Value
9.3
A buy or sell recommendation provided by Macroaxis is an automated directive regarding whether to purchase or sell Herbalife Nutrition given historical horizon and risk tolerance towards Herbalife Nutrition. When Macroaxis issues a 'buy' or 'sell' recommendation for Herbalife Nutrition, the advice is generated through an automated system that utilizes algorithms and statistical models.
  
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Time Horizon

Risk Tolerance

Execute Advice
Sell Herbalife NutritionBuy Herbalife Nutrition
Cautious Hold

Market Performance

Very WeakDetails

Volatility

Slightly riskyDetails

Hype Condition

Over hypedDetails

Current Valuation

UndervaluedDetails

Odds Of Distress

Very LowDetails

Economic Sensitivity

Follows the market closelyDetails

Investor Sentiment

InterestedDetails

Analyst Consensus

BuyDetails

Financial Strenth (F Score)

HealthyDetails

Financial Leverage

InapplicableDetails

Reporting Quality (M-Score)

Unlikely ManipulatorDetails
For the selected time horizon Herbalife Nutrition has a Mean Deviation of 3.21, Standard Deviation of 5.3 and Variance of 28.08
We provide advice to complement the regular expert consensus on Herbalife Nutrition. Our dynamic recommendation engine utilizes a multidimensional algorithm to analyze the company's potential to grow using all technical and fundamental data available at the time. To make sure Herbalife Nutrition is not overpriced, please check out all Herbalife Nutrition fundamentals, including its book value per share, market capitalization, and the relationship between the cash per share and price to earnings to growth . Given that Herbalife Nutrition has a price to earning of 5.48 X, we strongly advise you to confirm Herbalife Nutrition market performance and probability of bankruptcy to ensure the company can sustain itself in the current economic cycle given your regular risk tolerance and investing horizon.

Herbalife Nutrition Trading Alerts and Improvement Suggestions

Herbalife Nutrition generated a negative expected return over the last 90 days
Herbalife Nutrition has high historical volatility and very poor performance
Over 99.0% of the company shares are owned by institutional investors
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Herbalife Nutrition current analysts advice

We track the performance of the top 100 financial experts across various large and mid-size financial boutiques. Herbalife analyst recommendations are determined by taking all analyst recommendations and averaging them as Strong Buy, Buy, Hold, Strong Sell or Sell. There is no one specific way to measure analysis performance other than comparing it to the past results via a very sophisticated attribution analysis. Herbalife analyst consensus and target price projections should be used in combination with other traditional techniques such as stock price forecasting, technical analysis, earnings estimate, and various momentum models.
Average Consensus Buy
The consensus estimates and target price estimation comprises individual analyst assessments, and may or may not mutch the Macroaxis buy or sell advice. It is determined by taking an average of all analyst recommendations and classifying them as Strong Buy, Buy, Hold, or Sell.

Herbalife Nutrition Returns Distribution Density

The distribution of Herbalife Nutrition's historical returns is an attempt to chart the uncertainty of Herbalife Nutrition's future price movements. The chart of the probability distribution of Herbalife Nutrition daily returns describes the distribution of returns around its average expected value. We use Herbalife Nutrition price's Value At Risk and its Upside Potential as a relative measure of the distribution. The graph of the distribution of Herbalife Nutrition returns is essential to provide solid investment advice for Herbalife Nutrition.
Mean Return
-0.41
Value At Risk
-7.39
Potential Upside
6.12
Standard Deviation
5.30
   Return Density   
       Distribution  
Investment risk management requires an estimate of the probability of extreme price changes. Therefore, the correct representation of the distribution of Herbalife Nutrition historical returns presented in an easy-to-digest graphical form helps investors and money managers understand the risk-reward trade-off of different investement strategies.

Herbalife Stock Institutional Investors

Have you ever been surprised when a price of an equity instrument such as Herbalife Nutrition is soaring high without any particular reason? This is usually happening because many institutional investors are aggressively trading Herbalife Nutrition backward and forwards among themselves. Herbalife Nutrition's institutional investor refers to the entity that pools money to purchase Herbalife Nutrition's securities or originates loans. Institutional investors include commercial and private banks, credit unions, insurance companies, pension funds, hedge funds, endowments, and mutual funds. Operating companies that invest excess capital in these types of assets may also be included in the term and may influence corporate governance by exercising voting rights in their investments.
Shares
Geode Capital Management, Llc2023-12-31
2.3 M
Camber Capital Management Llc2023-12-31
M
Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc2023-12-31
1.9 M
First Pacific Advisors, Lp2023-12-31
1.8 M
Deutsche Bank Ag2023-12-31
1.8 M
Baupost Group Llc2023-12-31
1.7 M
Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management Llc2023-12-31
1.6 M
Millennium Management Llc2023-12-31
1.6 M
Healthcare Of Ontario Pension Plan Trust Fund2023-12-31
1.6 M
Route One Investment Co, Lp2023-09-30
10.8 M
Vanguard Group Inc2023-12-31
10.3 M
Note, although Herbalife Nutrition's institutional investors appear to be way more sophisticated than retail investors, it remains unclear if professional active investment managers can reliably enhance risk-adjusted returns by an amount that exceeds fees and expenses.

Herbalife Nutrition Cash Flow Accounts

201920202021202220232024 (projected)
Capital Expenditures106.1M112M151.4M156.4M135M92.9M
Net Income311M372.6M447.2M321.3M142.2M261.2M
Change To Inventory(68.6M)(76.6M)(129.1M)(68.4M)57.5M60.4M
Change To Netincome65.2M78.9M79.4M23.1M26.6M37.6M
End Period Cash Flow847.5M1.1B610.4M516.3M595.5M570.0M
Change In Cash(367.5M)206.5M(443.6M)(94.1M)79.2M83.2M
Free Cash Flow351.4M516.6M308.9M196.1M222.5M344.7M
Depreciation97.7M100.3M107.6M115.4M113.3M86.5M
Other Non Cash Items57M62.5M103M24.4M47.4M49.8M
Change Receivables(14.4M)(5.8M)9.6M(9.1M)(10.5M)(11.0M)
Net Borrowings(699.5M)599.1M278.5M(122.2M)(110.0M)(104.5M)
Investments(108M)(123.2M)(156.4M)(156.2M)(142.4M)(149.5M)

Herbalife Nutrition Greeks

Most traded equities are subject to two types of risk - systematic (i.e., market) and unsystematic (i.e., nonmarket or company-specific) risk. Unsystematic risk is the risk that events specific to Herbalife Nutrition or Personal Care Products sector will adversely affect the stock's price. This type of risk can be diversified away by owning several different stocks in different industries whose stock prices have shown a small correlation to each other. On the other hand, systematic risk is the risk that Herbalife Nutrition's price will be affected by overall stock market movements and cannot be diversified away. So, no matter how many positions you have, you cannot eliminate market risk. However, you can measure a Herbalife stock's historical response to market movements and buy it if you are comfortable with its volatility direction. Beta and standard deviation are two commonly used measures to help you make the right decision.
α
Alpha over NYSE Composite
-0.47
β
Beta against NYSE Composite0.82
σ
Overall volatility
5.42
Ir
Information ratio -0.09

Herbalife Nutrition Volatility Alert

Herbalife Nutrition exhibits very low volatility with skewness of -3.19 and kurtosis of 18.03. Understanding different market volatility trends often help investors to time the market. Properly using volatility indicators enable traders to measure Herbalife Nutrition's stock risk against market volatility during both bullish and bearish trends. The higher level of volatility that comes with bear markets can directly impact Herbalife Nutrition's stock price while adding stress to investors as they watch their shares' value plummet. This usually forces investors to rebalance their portfolios by buying different financial instruments as prices fall.

Herbalife Nutrition Implied Volatility

Herbalife Nutrition's implied volatility exposes the market's sentiment of Herbalife Nutrition stock's possible movements over time. However, it does not forecast the overall direction of its price. In a nutshell, if Herbalife Nutrition's implied volatility is high, the market thinks the stock has potential for high price swings in either direction. On the other hand, the low implied volatility suggests that Herbalife Nutrition stock will not fluctuate a lot when Herbalife Nutrition's options are near their expiration.

Herbalife Nutrition Fundamentals Vs Peers

Comparing Herbalife Nutrition's fundamentals to the average values of its peers is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It helps to analyze Herbalife Nutrition's direct or indirect competition across all of the common fundamentals between Herbalife Nutrition and the related equities. This way, we can detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics as Herbalife Nutrition or determine the stocks which would be an excellent addition to an existing portfolio. Peer analysis of Herbalife Nutrition's fundamental indicators could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Herbalife Nutrition by comparing valuation metrics with those of similar companies.
    
 Better Than Average     
    
 Worse Than Average Compare Herbalife Nutrition to competition
FundamentalsHerbalife NutritionPeer Average
Return On Asset0.0926-0.14
Profit Margin0.03 %(1.27) %
Operating Margin0.06 %(5.51) %
Current Valuation3.05 B16.62 B
Shares Outstanding99.79 M571.82 M
Shares Owned By Insiders1.36 %10.09 %
Shares Owned By Institutions98.64 %39.21 %
Number Of Shares Shorted12.07 M4.71 M
Price To Earning5.48 X28.72 X
Price To Sales0.16 X11.42 X
Revenue5.06 B9.43 B
Gross Profit2.34 B27.38 B
EBITDA482.2 M3.9 B
Net Income142.2 M570.98 M
Cash And Equivalents508 M2.7 B
Cash Per Share5.44 X5.01 X
Total Debt2.77 B5.32 B
Debt To Equity7.30 %48.70 %
Current Ratio1.40 X2.16 X
Book Value Per Share(10.69) X1.93 K
Cash Flow From Operations357.5 M971.22 M
Short Ratio6.88 X4.00 X
Earnings Per Share1.42 X3.12 X
Price To Earnings To Growth(32.80) X4.89 X
Target Price12.5
Number Of Employees9.2 K18.84 K
Beta1.23-0.15
Market Capitalization857.17 M19.03 B
Total Asset2.81 B29.47 B
Retained Earnings(1.06 B)9.33 B
Working Capital121.7 M1.48 B
Current Asset1.57 B9.34 B
Current Liabilities1.02 B7.9 B
Note: Disposition of 1081 shares by Alexander Amezquita of Herbalife Nutrition at 11.63 subject to Rule 16b-3 [view details]

Herbalife Nutrition Market Momentum

Traders often use several daily momentume indicators to supplement a more traditional technical analysis when analyzing securities such as Herbalife . With many different options, investors must choose the best indicators for them and familiarize themselves with how they work. We suggest combining traditional momentum indicators with more near-term forms of technical analysis such as Accumulation Distribution or Daily Balance Of Power. With their quantitative nature, daily value technical indicators can also be incorporated into your automated trading systems.

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 2021 2022 2023 2024 (projected)
Other Current Liabilities896M803.4M780.6M506.2M
Total Assets2.8B2.7B2.8B2.0B

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Is Herbalife Nutrition's industry expected to grow? Or is there an opportunity to expand the business' product line in the future? Factors like these will boost the valuation of Herbalife Nutrition. If investors know Herbalife will grow in the future, the company's valuation will be higher. The financial industry is built on trying to define current growth potential and future valuation accurately. All the valuation information about Herbalife Nutrition listed above have to be considered, but the key to understanding future value is determining which factors weigh more heavily than others.
Quarterly Earnings Growth
(0.81)
Earnings Share
1.42
Revenue Per Share
51.135
Quarterly Revenue Growth
0.029
Return On Assets
0.0926
The market value of Herbalife Nutrition is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of Herbalife that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of Herbalife Nutrition's value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is Herbalife Nutrition's true underlying value. Investors use various methods to calculate intrinsic value and buy a stock when its market value falls below its intrinsic value. Because Herbalife Nutrition's market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect Herbalife Nutrition's underlying business (such as a pandemic or basic market pessimism), market value can vary widely from intrinsic value.
Please note, there is a significant difference between Herbalife Nutrition's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Herbalife Nutrition is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Herbalife Nutrition's price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.