Why Herbalife Is Poised to Underperform

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Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, nutritional-supplement network marketing company Herbalife (NYSE: HLF ) has received an alarming one-star ranking.

With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Herbalife and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.

Herbalife facts


Headquarters (founded)	Los Angeles, Calif. (1980)
Market Cap	$4.0 billion
Industry	Personal products
Trailing-12-Month Revenue	$4.1 billion
Management	Chairman/CEO Michael Johnson CFO John DeSimone
Return on Capital (average, past 3 years)	45.2%
Cash/Debt	$333.5 million/$489.6 million
Dividend Yield	2.9%
Competitors	Amway GNC Holdings (NYSE: GNC ) Wal-Mart Stores (NYSE: WMT )

Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.

On CAPS, 32% of the 654 members who have rated Herbalife believe the stock will underperform the S&P 500 going forward.

Just yesterday, one of those Fools, All-Star Brettmj, succinctly summed up the Herbalife bear case for our community: "Overpriced products, even if it isn't classified as a pyramid scheme this one will die off. [Underperform call] might go into the red for awhile but eventually people will come around to much better cheaper alternatives that don't have questionable sales tactics."

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Report this Comment On March 16, 2013, at 9:01 AM, randysandy wrote:

I have to ask: why are you dooshbags allowed to even publish this drivel without any regulation? The thing is moron is that had all this controversy never happened, and had the stock not gone down the last few days, you wouldn't have written your negative and manipulative garbage. Before all the controversy in the headlines, didi you even know the ticker symbol?
Report this Comment On March 16, 2013, at 10:05 AM, randysandy wrote:

Would you have written this article had nome of this controversy arisen? Would you even have known the ticker symbol? Such unregulated manipulation
Report this Comment On March 18, 2013, at 7:44 AM, taishiba wrote:

lies lies lies lies. how much more BS will people believe?
Report this Comment On March 18, 2013, at 5:06 PM, rsinj wrote:

I personally don't care about HLF nor the outcome one way or the other.
However, the quality of this article is pretty poor no matter how you look at it.
Looking at the title, what has been presented in it that comes to that conclusion? It's certainly not the information in the table. So that means it all comes down to the paragraphs on CAPS.
"On CAPS, 32% of the 654 members who have rated Herbalife believe the stock will underperform the S&P 500 going forward."
Well, that surely doesn't make your case, does it? Doesn't that say that 68% of the 654 members believe it will perform as well or better than the S&P 500 going forward?
Do we really care about the bear case presented by the one "all-star" member? 68% of CAPS members disagree - isn't that the whole idea behind CAPS? What the majority are saying?
This article was not objective at all. Not from the information presented in it.

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	DOW	15,294.50	-12.67	-0.08%
	S&P 500	1,650.51	-4.84	-0.29%
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WMT	$76.33		-0.70	-0.91%
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