HERBALIFE LTD.
HERBALIFE LTD. (HLF) has a dated report snapshot, but its current priced-in claim is temporarily suppressed because the live engine record is unavailable or has changed.
• Herbalife sells nutrition products through a network of independent distributors rather than retail shelves, competing for recruits against other direct sellers the 10-K names directly: ⟦Medifast, Inc., Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc., USANA Health Sciences, Inc.⟧; the health of that recruiting funnel, not shelf space, is the business. • The biggest risk is the balance sheet: net debt near $1.5 billion against trailing operating income that covers interest only about 2.4 times, so the senior secured
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239 institutional managers reported holding HLF in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. 47 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, Baupost Group, BlackRock, among others. On the short side, 7.9M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 7% of shares outstanding (5 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
HLF has cut its share count 3.9% over the past five years, spending $453.00M on repurchases. It pays no dividend. Cash returned over the past three years: $18.80M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at HLF over the trailing three years: 2024: 20 buys totaling $1.69M; 2025: 8 buys totaling $320k; 2026: 1 buy totaling $14k. 19 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
HLF's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-03 | +14.8% | -32.9% |
| 2023-11-02 | -2.5% | -4.2% |
| 2024-02-15 | -31.9% | +7.0% |
| 2024-05-02 | +8.4% | +21.1% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
HLF's latest 8-K filings: 2026-05-06 (items 2.02, 5.07, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-05-01 (items 1.01, 2.03, 2.04, 8.01, 9.01); 2026-04-16 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-04-14 (items 2.02, 8.01, 9.01); 2026-02-18 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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