CAH vs. MCK, COR, HSIC, PDCO, OMI, HLF, NUS, PETQ, HWH, and BIMI
Should you be buying Cardinal Health stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cardinal Health include McKesson (MCK), Cencora (COR), Henry Schein (HSIC), Patterson Companies (PDCO), Owens & Minor (OMI), Herbalife (HLF), Nu Skin Enterprises (NUS), PetIQ (PETQ), HWH International (HWH), and BIMI (BIMI).
McKesson (NYSE:MCK) and Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, institutional ownership and community ranking.
McKesson has a net margin of 0.97% compared to McKesson's net margin of 0.25%. McKesson's return on equity of -54.74% beat Cardinal Health's return on equity.
McKesson received 47 more outperform votes than Cardinal Health when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.16% of users gave McKesson an outperform vote while only 71.70% of users gave Cardinal Health an outperform vote.
McKesson has higher revenue and earnings than Cardinal Health. McKesson is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cardinal Health, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
McKesson has a beta of 0.45, suggesting that its share price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cardinal Health has a beta of 0.71, suggesting that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.
McKesson pays an annual dividend of $2.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Cardinal Health pays an annual dividend of $2.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. McKesson pays out 11.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cardinal Health pays out 89.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. McKesson has raised its dividend for 16 consecutive years and Cardinal Health has raised its dividend for 27 consecutive years. Cardinal Health is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, McKesson had 26 more articles in the media than Cardinal Health. MarketBeat recorded 36 mentions for McKesson and 10 mentions for Cardinal Health. McKesson's average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Cardinal Health's score of 0.57 indicating that Cardinal Health is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
McKesson currently has a consensus target price of $571.47, suggesting a potential upside of 0.33%. Cardinal Health has a consensus target price of $107.57, suggesting a potential upside of 8.36%. Given McKesson's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Cardinal Health is more favorable than McKesson.
85.1% of McKesson shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.2% of Cardinal Health shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of McKesson shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Cardinal Health shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
McKesson beats Cardinal Health on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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