Wellness products company Nature’s Sunshine (NASDAQ: NATR) will be announcing earnings results tomorrow after market hours. Here’s what you need to know.
Nature's Sunshine beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 8.1% last quarter, reporting revenues of $118.2 million, up 8.5% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ EBITDAand EPS estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Nature's Sunshine’s revenue to decline 1.4% year on year to $109.4 million, a reversal from the 2.2% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.17 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. Nature's Sunshine has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates three times over the last two years.
Looking at Nature's Sunshine’s peers in the personal care segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. USANA delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 9.5%, beating analysts’ expectations by 2.7%, and Estée Lauder reported a revenue decline of 9.9%, topping estimates by 1.2%. USANA traded up 5.2% following the results while Estée Lauder’s stock price was unchanged.
Read our full analysis of USANA’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 2.6% on average over the last month. Nature's Sunshine is up 9.2% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $22.25 (compared to the current share price of $12.52).
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