Will Soft Volumes Hurt Herbalife (HLF) This Earnings Season?

Herbalife Ltd. HLFis slated to release first-quarter 2018 results on May 3. This provider of nutrition and weight management solutions has outperformed the Zacks Consensus Estimate by an average of 28.6% in the trailing four quarters. Let’s see what’s in store this time.

Factors Impacting the Quarter

Herbalife remains dedicated toward implementing new technologies and making advancements in the digital space.

This is evident from its recently inked deal with Salesforce, which is likely to bring various CRM capacities to Herbalife’s distributors and customers. Moreover, the company remains focused on undertaking innovations in order to align with the changing needs of customers. Incidentally, it launched more than 70 products globally during the fourth quarter. We believe that such efforts are likely to bear a positive impact the company’s performance in the first quarter of 2018.

Well, such endeavors to enhance performance, combined with an impressive earnings history have buoyed investor optimism on the stock. Evidently, the stock rallied 67.5% over the past year, in comparison with the industry’s decline of 17.8%.