{"id":23779,"date":"2026-02-21T04:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T04:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=23779"},"modified":"2026-02-21T04:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T04:55:15","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-puts-7-5m-into-herbalife-health-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=23779","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo puts $7.5m into Herbalife health platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"textFreeArticle\">\n<p>Cristiano Ronaldo, football\u2019s first billionaire, is putting a small part of his personal fortune into a new health and wellness tracking service owned by Herbalife.<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old Portuguese footballer, who has played in Saudi Arabia since 2023, will invest $7.5 million for a 10% stake in HBL Pro2col Software LLC, said Herbalife in its fourth-quarter results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvesting in Pro2col felt like a natural evolution \u2014 in addition to representing Herbalife, this is about helping shape and grow a platform that can truly change how people engage with their health and wellness,\u201d Ronaldo said, according to a statement from Herbalife. Bloomberg News has reached out to Ronaldo for further comment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"visible-sm-block visible-xs-block m1010\">\n<div class=\"ad-container-wrapper\">\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pro2Col\u2019s platform uses an individual\u2019s data to build a wellness plan specific to them, with daily habits and smart nutrition tracking, the company says.<\/p>\n<p>Herbalife bought Pro2Col last year as part of a series of acquisitions for $30 million that included acquiring Pruvit Venture and a 51% stake in Link BioSciences.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo \u2014 who became the first footballer to join the Bloomberg Billionaire\u2019s Index in 2025, with an estimated net worth of $1.4 billion \u2014 has been a paid endorser of Herbalife since 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Mizuho Securities analyst John Baumgartner called Ronaldo\u2019s investment \u201ca nice add\u201d for a company that had solid fourth-quarter earnings.<\/p>\n<p>Shares in Herbalife gained as much as 23%, to hit their highest level since March 2023. The rally follows long-term weakness. Over the past five years, the stock has declined by about two-thirds.<\/p>\n<p>Produced with the assistance of AI.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2026 Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Moneyweb\u2019s in-depth finance and business news on WhatsApp here.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\">\n            !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n            {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n                n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n                if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n                n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n                t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n                'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n            fbq('init', '779812924991616');\n            fbq('track', 'PageView');\n        <\/script>#Cristiano #Ronaldo #puts #7.5m #Herbalife #health #platform<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo, football\u2019s &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[13920,13918,600,13921,28,3483,13919],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}