Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE: NUS) today announced strong second-quarter financial results with revenue of $704.2 million, up 28 percent over the prior-year period, and earnings per share of $0.90, a 17 percent increase over the prior-year period.
Quarterly earnings were negatively impacted by a foreign currency translation loss of $0.13 and a $0.05 purchase accounting charge.
“We continue to successfully execute on our customer growth strategy centered on engaging platforms, enabling products and empowering programs, which led to accelerated growth,”
said Ritch Wood, chief executive officer.
“Our customers grew by 8 percent and sales leaders grew by 21 percent, and we saw healthy revenue generation throughout the business, highlighted by double-digit increases in Mainland China, Southeast Asia and the Americas and Pacific.
We are also pleased with the solid performance of our acquired businesses, which we anticipate will show increased benefits in our future results.”
“Based on our strong first-half results, with double-digit growth in both the first and second quarters, we now see revenue growth of approximately 15 to 17 percent for the year,”
said Wood.
“We will continue to invest in social selling capabilities, product innovation and the ongoing rollout of our Velocity sales compensation program. We expect these initiatives, coupled with the
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Nu Skin Q1 Sales Up 24% To $616 Million
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We delivered strong first-quarter results highlighted by 24 percent growth in revenue, which included a 7 percent foreign currency benefit,”
said Ritch Wood, chief executive officer.
“Our revenue growth was driven by an 11 percent increase in customers and a 16 percent improvement in the number of sales leaders.
We are encouraged by the early execution of our growth strategy centered on engaging platforms, enabling products and empowering programs.“
“Based on the strength of first-quarter results and our initiatives for the remainder of the year, we are increasing our annual revenue guidance by $70 million,” said Wood.
“We remain focused on building momentum and executing our customer growth strategy by increasing social sharing capabilities with additional training and tools, driving innovation with ageLOC LumiSpa and other new products, and continuing the roll out of Velocity, our enhanced sales compensation program.”
“We generated 24 percent year-over-year revenue growth and strong earnings performance in the quarter,” said Mark Lawrence, chief financial officer.
“As previously disclosed, we incurred a charge associated with the early conversion of our convertible note, which was not included in our original guidance and negatively impacted first-quarter earnings by $0.12 per share. In addition, due to purchase accounting, we incurred a $0.03 charge related to the amortization of intangibles from our
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Nu Skin Q3 Revenue 7% Down To $564 Million
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Revenue: $563.7 million, compared to $604.2 million in Q3 2016.
Sales Leaders: 64,200 – 5% year-over-year decrease.
Customers: 1,069,000 – 7% year-over-year improvement.
“During the third quarter, we continued to execute our growth strategy and delivered results at the top-end of our previous guidance range,” said Ritch Wood, chief executive officer.
“We generated sequential improvements in the business, and are confident that our focus on social selling served as an important catalyst for steady customer and business growth in many of our markets. We also saw healthy energy within our sales force leading up to our October Nu Skin LIVE! event.”
“As we look ahead to the fourth quarter, we remain focused on expanding our customer base as we begin rolling out our platform, product and program initiatives,” said Wood.
“During our LIVE! event, we introduced several new products aimed at increasing the pace of our social selling efforts, including the ageLOC LumiSpa treatment and cleansing device which we plan to launch in every market during the first half of 2018.
Over the next several quarters, we will begin implementing enhanced programs to more effectively reward our sales leaders and build long-term customer loyalty. We are confident that our strategic focus on these initiatives will help
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Nu Skin Q2 Revenue Down $50 Million From $600 Million To $550 Million
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Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE: NUS) today announced second-quarter 2017 financial results.
The Company reported second-quarter revenue of $550.1 million, which was at the high end of its outlook of $530 to $550 million, and earnings per share of $0.77, which exceeded its outlook of $0.65 to $0.70.
As we move into the second half of the year, we remain focused on executing our three key growth drivers – platforms, products and programs,”
said Rich Wood – CEO.
“In the platforms area, we continue to drive social selling throughout our markets to expand our customer acquisition efforts. To support this strategy, we will introduce several new products at our ‘Nu Skin LIVE!’ global distributor event in October, including our ageLOC LumiSpa device.
Additionally, we will begin to introduce new and enhanced programs designed to more effectively reward our sales leaders to drive growth. The progress we are making with these initiatives gives us confidence in our future,”
Wood concluded.
“Given our strong second-quarter financial results, we are raising our full year 2017 earnings per share outlook to $3.20 to $3.30 and reiterating our annual revenue guidance of $2.26 to $2.30 billion,” said Mark Lawrence, chief financial officer.
“For the third quarter we project revenue of $540 to
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Nu Skin Q2 Revenue 8% Down To $550 Million
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Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE: NUS) today announced second-quarter 2017 financial results. The Company reported second-quarter revenue of $550.1 million, which was at the high end of its outlook of $530 to $550 million, and earnings per share of $0.77, which exceeded its outlook of $0.65 to $0.70.
“We are pleased to deliver strong quarterly results as we implement our growth strategy,”
said Ritch Wood, chief executive officer.
“We believe our second-quarter results provide momentum we can build on as we prepare to introduce several new products and significant business initiatives in the fourth quarter. We remain focused on customer acquisition and are encouraged by our year-over-year customer growth.
Looking forward, we believe our product and business initiatives, coupled with our continued efforts to increase our customer base, will help support business and sales leader growth in the second half of the year.”
“As we move into the second half of the year, we remain focused on executing our three key growth drivers – platforms, products and programs,” said Wood.
“In the platforms area, we continue to drive social selling throughout our markets to expand our customer acquisition efforts.
To support this strategy, we will introduce several new products at our ‘Nu Skin LIVE!’ global distributor
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Nu Skin Q1 Sales Up 6% To $499 Million
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Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE: NUS) today announced first-quarter 2017 financial results.
“We are pleased to deliver strong first-quarter results, which demonstrates the progress we made executing on our strategic priorities to increase customer trial and acquisition,” said Ritch Wood, chief executive officer.
“Our quarterly results reflect solid growth in Mainland China, South Asia/Pacific and EMEA.
Our expanding social selling efforts and the continued rollout of ageLOC Me and ageLOC Youth contributed to our strong revenue during the quarter, positioning us to deliver solid performance for 2017.”
“Looking forward, we will continue to focus on accelerating growth, driving innovation throughout our business, and empowering our customers and sales leaders with the products, programs, and platforms they need to succeed in a rapidly-evolving marketplace,” said Wood.
“A key component of our strategy is capitalizing on our early social
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Nu Skin Appoints Mark Lawrence As Chief Financial Officer
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Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE: NUS) today announced the appointment of Mark H. Lawrence as chief financial officer, effective March 27. Lawrence will replace Ritch Wood, who will become the chief executive officer of the company as previously announced.
As indicated in the company’s Feb. 16 press release, Truman Hunt, who has served as the company’s chief executive officer since 2003, will become the vice chairman of the board of directors and Ryan Napierski will become the company’s president. These changes are effective today.
“Mark brings a wealth of leadership experience and an in-depth knowledge of finance and operations that will provide strength to Nu Skin and our senior management team,” said Wood. “In addition, his extensive experience in leadership positions at multiple publicly traded companies provides Mark a strong foundation to understand
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Nu Skin Q4 Sales Down 7% To $531 Million
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Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE: NUS) today announced fourth-quarter results with revenue of $531.3 million, compared to $572.2 million in the prior-year period. Quarterly revenue was negatively impacted 1 percent by foreign currency fluctuations. Earnings per share for the quarter were $0.69, compared to $0.62 in the prior-year period.
The company’s earnings per share in the fourth quarter included a negative $0.10 impact from a tax charge related to the enactment of a new U.S. tax regulation in December.
The company also reported full-year 2016 revenue of $2.21 billion, compared to $2.25 billion in 2015. Annual revenue was approximately even on a local-currency basis but was negatively impacted 2 percent by a strong U.S. dollar. Earnings per share for 2016 were $2.55, compared to $2.25 in 2015.
The company also reiterated guidance provided at its 2016 investor day in December
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Nu Skin CEO Truman Hunt Will Step Down – Ritch Wood Appointed
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Nu Skin Enterprises (NYSE:NUS) today announced a senior management transition plan.
Truman Hunt, who has served as the company’s president and chief executive officer since 2003, has accepted a three-year leadership assignment for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints beginning in mid-2017.
The Nu Skin Board of Directors has announced that Ritch Wood will become the company’s chief executive officer upon Hunt’s departure, and Ryan Napierski will become the company’s president. The company expects to name a successor to Wood as chief financial officer prior to his becoming chief executive officer.
“Truman has established a tremendous legacy at Nu Skin that we will continue to build upon going forward,” said Steven J. Lund, chairman of the board. “Through Truman’s leadership and vision, Nu Skin has achieved extraordinary success and is extremely well