Company updates capital allocation priorities, announces dividend and provides initial outlook for Q1 and FY 2024

Nu Skin Enterprises Inc. (NYSE: NUS) today announced fourth quarter and full-year 2023 results slightly above its latest guidance.

Executive Summary

Q4 2023 vs. Prior-year Quarter

Executive Summary

2023 vs. 2022

“While we continue to work toward our long-term vision of becoming the world’s leading integrated beauty and wellness platform, our progress was impacted by persistent macro-economic pressures and disruptions associated with transforming our business,” said Ryan Napierski, Nu Skin president and CEO. “This was particularly evident with our fourth quarter results, which were down in our Americas, South Korea and Europe & Africa segments. This was offset by seasonal promotions in Mainland China, stabilization in Japan and modest growth in our Hong Kong/Taiwan segment. In addition, we achieved strong growth in our Rhyz businesses, which accounted for 13 percent of our revenue in the fourth quarter.

“We are committed to generating long-term enterprise value by repositioning our company to win in the rapidly evolving beauty and wellness industries by further transforming our core Nu Skin business and accelerating investment in our rapidly growing Rhyz ecosystem,” continued Napierski. “To enhance this transformation, we are reassessing our approach to capital allocation to invest in long-term growth and business evolution. This initiative aims to grant us increased financial flexibility, enabling us to effectively seize forthcoming growth opportunities. This includes rebalancing our dividend payout ratio to be in line with or better than our industry peers. With the additional available capital, we will focus our investments relatively evenly across three key initiatives: 1) accelerating the growth opportunities in Rhyz; 2) facilitating a new market expansion model beginning with India anticipated in 2025; and 3) furthering the build-out of our digital-first affiliate opportunity platform. While we continue to navigate the challenges of a business transformation amid these disruptive times, we have fine-tuned our strategy and remain confident in our ability to generate long-term growth and value for shareholders.”

Q4 2023 Year-over-year Operating Results

Stockholder Value

Q1 and Full-year 2024 Outlook

“Our initial 2024 guidance assumes the global macro environment remains challenging in the near-term, improving throughout the year,” said James D. Thomas, chief financial officer. “Our annual revenue guidance is $1.73 to $1.87 billion, with an approximate 1% foreign currency headwind. We anticipate reported EPS of $0.75 to $1.15 or adjusted earnings of $0.95 to $1.35, excluding charges associated with our extended restructuring plan. Our guidance reflects an anticipated higher global effective tax rate, primarily due to the expected geographical mix of earnings during the year. For the first quarter, we project revenue of $400 to $435 million, assuming a negative foreign currency impact of approximately 3%, with reported earnings per share of $(0.07) to $0.03 or $0.00 to $0.10 excluding restructuring charges.”

Dividend Payout

The Nu Skin Enterprises board of directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.06 per share, which will be paid on March 6, 2024, to shareholders of record on Feb. 26, 2024.

Conference Call

The Nu Skin Enterprises management team will host a conference call with the investment community today at 5 p.m. (ET). Those wishing to access the webcast, as well as the financial information presented during the call, can visit the Investor Relations page on the company's website at ir.nuskin.com. A replay of the webcast will be available on the same page through Feb. 28, 2024.

About Nu Skin Enterprises Inc.

The Nu Skin Enterprises Inc. (NYSE: NUS) family of companies includes Nu Skin and Rhyz Inc. Nu Skin is an integrated beauty and wellness company, powered by a dynamic affiliate opportunity platform, which operates in nearly 50 markets worldwide. Backed by nearly 40 years of scientific research, the company’s products help people look, feel and live their best with brands including Nu Skin® personal care, Pharmanex® nutrition and ageLOC® anti-aging, which includes an award-winning line of beauty device systems. Formed in 2018, Rhyz is a synergistic ecosystem of consumer, technology and manufacturing companies focused on innovation within the beauty, wellness and lifestyle categories.

Important Information Regarding Forward-Looking Statements: This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, that represent the company’s current expectations and beliefs. All statements other than statements of historical fact are “forward-looking statements” for purposes of federal and state securities laws and include, but are not limited to, statements of management’s expectations regarding the macro environment and the company’s performance, growth and growth opportunities, shareholder value, financial flexibility, transformation, evolution, investments, initiatives, digital tools and initiatives, and new market expansion; projections regarding revenue, expenses, tax rates, earnings per share, foreign currency fluctuations, future dividends, uses of cash and other financial items; statements of belief; and statements of assumptions underlying any of the foregoing. In some cases, you can identify these statements by forward-looking words such as “believe,” “expect,” “aim,” “commit,” “reposition,” “anticipate,” “accelerate,” “project,” “vision,” “continue,” “outlook,” “guidance,” “improve,” “will,” “would,” “could,” “may,” “might,” the negative of these words and other similar words.

The forward-looking statements and related assumptions involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results and outcomes to differ materially from any forward-looking statements or views expressed herein. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the following:

• any failure of current or planned initiatives or products to generate interest among the company’s sales force and customers and generate sponsoring and selling activities on a sustained basis;
• risk that direct selling laws and regulations in any of the company’s markets, including the United States and Mainland China, may be modified, interpreted or enforced in a manner that results in negative changes to the company’s business model or negatively impacts its revenue, sales force or business, including through the interruption of sales activities, loss of licenses, increased scrutiny of sales force actions, imposition of fines, or any other adverse actions or events;
• economic conditions and events globally;
• competitive pressures in the company’s markets;
• risk that epidemics, including COVID-19 and related disruptions, or other crises could negatively impact our business;
• adverse publicity related to the company’s business, products, industry or any legal actions or complaints by the company’s sales force or others;
• political, legal, tax and regulatory uncertainties, including trade policies, associated with operating in Mainland China and other international markets;
• uncertainty regarding meeting restrictions and other government scrutiny in Mainland China, as well as negative media and consumer sentiment in Mainland China on our business operations and results;
• risk of foreign-currency fluctuations and the currency translation impact on the company’s business associated with these fluctuations;
• uncertainties regarding the future financial performance of the businesses the company has acquired;
• risks related to accurately predicting, delivering or maintaining sufficient quantities of products to support planned initiatives or launch strategies, and increased risk of inventory write-offs if the company over-forecasts demand for a product or changes its planned initiatives or launch strategies;
• regulatory risks associated with the company’s products, which could require the company to modify its claims or inhibit its ability to import or continue selling a product in a market if the product is determined to be a medical device or if the company is unable to register the product in a timely manner under applicable regulatory requirements; and
• the company’s future tax-planning initiatives, any prospective or retrospective increases in duties or tariffs on the company’s products imported into the company’s markets outside of the United States, and any adverse results of tax audits or unfavorable changes to tax laws in the company’s various markets.

The company’s financial performance and the forward-looking statements contained herein are further qualified by a detailed discussion of associated risks set forth in the documents filed by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The forward-looking statements set forth the company’s beliefs as of the date that such information was first provided, and the company assumes no duty to update the forward-looking statements contained in this release to reflect any change except as required by law.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures: Constant-currency revenue change is a non-GAAP financial measure that removes the impact of fluctuations in foreign-currency exchange rates, thereby facilitating period-to-period comparisons of the company’s performance. It is calculated by translating the current period’s revenue at the same average exchange rates in effect during the applicable prior-year period and then comparing that amount to the prior-year period’s revenue. The company believes that constant-currency revenue change is useful to investors, lenders and analysts because such information enables them to gauge the impact of foreign-currency fluctuations on the company’s revenue from period to period.

Earnings per share, operating margin and income tax rate, each excluding inventory write-off charges, restructuring charges, and/or other charges, also are non-GAAP financial measures. Inventory write-off charges and restructuring charges are not part of the ongoing operations of our underlying business, and the legal accrual and non-recurring foreign tax charge that have been excluded in the non-GAAP financial measures are not typical for our ongoing operations. The company believes that these non-GAAP financial measures are useful to investors, lenders and analysts because removing the impact of these charges facilitates period-to-period comparisons of the company’s performance. Please see the reconciliations of these items to our earnings per share, operating margin and income tax rate calculated under GAAP, below.

The following table sets forth revenue for the three-month periods ended December 31, 2023, and 2022 for each of our reportable segments (U.S. dollars in thousands):

The following table sets forth revenue for the years ended December 31, 2023, and 2022 for each of our reportable segments (U.S. dollars in thousands):

The following table provides information concerning the number of Customers, Paid Affiliates and Sales Leaders in our core Nu Skin business for the three-month periods ended December 31, 2023, and 2022:

(1) The December 31, 2023, number is affected by a change in eligibility requirements for receiving certain rewards within our compensation structure. We plan to implement these changes in additional segments over the next several quarters. We estimate the change in eligibility requirements resulted in a reduction of approximately 14 thousand, 15 thousand, 6 thousand and 3 thousand for South Korea, Japan, Europe & Africa and Hong Kong/Taiwan, respectively.

• “Customers” are persons who have purchased directly from the Company during the three months ended as of the date indicated. Our Customer numbers include members of our sales force who made such a purchase, including Paid Affiliates and those who qualify as Sales Leaders, but they do not include consumers who purchase directly from members of our sales force.
• “Paid Affiliates” are any Brand Affiliates, as well as members of our sales force in Mainland China, who earned sales compensation during the three-month period. In all of our markets besides Mainland China, we refer to members of our independent sales force as “Brand Affiliates” because their primary role is to promote our brand and products through their personal social networks.
• “Sales Leaders” are the three-month average of our monthly Brand Affiliates, as well as sales employees and independent marketers in Mainland China, who achieved certain qualification requirements as of the end of each month of the quarter.

(2) Other charges consist of a legal contingency ($3.0 million) and a non-recurring foreign tax charge ($2.3 million) that were recorded in the fourth quarter of 2023.

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