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Nu Skin Enterprises

NUS
48
Household & Personal Products · Consumer Defensive
Winston Score
48
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Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.

Nu Skin Enterprises sells beauty and wellness products directly to consumers. Its main products include skincare items, anti-aging devices, and nutritional supplements sold under the Nu Skin and Pharmanex brand names. The company is known for its ageLOC line of electronic beauty devices and targets everyday consumers who want premium personal care products.

Nu Skin makes money by selling products through a network of independent distributors, which is a direct-sales model similar to a multi-level marketing structure. It operates in roughly 50 markets worldwide, with a heavy presence in Asia, particularly China and South Korea, which makes it sensitive to economic and regulatory conditions in those regions. The company has faced declining sales in recent years as distributor recruitment slows and competition from traditional retail and e-commerce brands intensifies, making stabilizing its salesforce the central challenge ahead.

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Quality

Gross Margin
66.9%
Premium pricing power — 66.9% gross margin
Operating Margin
1.8%
Thin — 1.8% operating margin
ROCE
0.6%
Weak — 0.6% return on capital

ROIC between 0% and 5%. They earn a few cents back per dollar invested in the business.

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Growth

Sales YoY
-14.2%
Shrinking sales (-14.2% YoY)
EPS YoY
N/A
Data not available
EPS Consistency
6/8 quarters
Earnings grew in most of the last 8 quarters

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
139%
Turns 139% of profit into real cash
FCF Margin
2.9%
Thin free cash flow (2.9%)

FCF margin between 0% and 10%. Some cash from sales, but not a lot.

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Stability

Debt / Equity
0.28
Conservative — low debt load (0.28)
Interest Cover
5.47x
Adequate interest coverage (5.5x)

Interest coverage between 3 and 8. Profits cover interest several times over.

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
4.6x
no trend
Attractive valuation — P/E 4.6

P/E under 10. The price tag is small relative to last year's profit.

P/E vs Forward
-0.4
SLOWING
Earnings expected to fall — forward P/E higher than today

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Dividends

Dividend Yield
4.79%
no trend
Healthy income — 4.79% yield

Generous yield. Worth checking whether the payout is sustainable.

Dividend Growth
+0.0%
no trend
Dividend flat

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