Health and wellness products company Herbalife (NYSE:HLF) will be announcing earnings results this Wednesday afternoon. Here’s what investors should know.
Herbalife beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 0.5% last quarter, reporting revenues of $1.27 billion, up 2.7% year on year. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates but a significant miss of analysts’ gross margin estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Herbalife’s revenue to grow 2.5% year on year to $1.24 billion, improving from its flat revenue in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.48 per share.
Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Herbalife has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates five times over the last two years.
Looking at Herbalife’s peers in the personal care segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. e.l.f. Beauty delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 37.8%, beating analysts’ expectations by 6.4%, and Estée Lauder reported revenues up 5.6%, in line with consensus estimates. e.l.f. Beauty traded down 9.2% following the results while Estée Lauder was also down 16.8%.
Read our full analysis of e.l.f. Beauty’s results here and Estée Lauder’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the personal care segment, with share prices up 3.7% on average over the last month. Herbalife is down 6.1% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $14 (compared to the current share price of $15.90).
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