LTH vs. PLNT, OSW, THC, INCY, DVA, SWAV, VTRS, UHS, FMS, and PODD
Should you be buying Life Time Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Life Time Group include Planet Fitness (PLNT), OneSpaWorld (OSW), Tenet Healthcare (THC), Incyte (INCY), DaVita (DVA), Shockwave Medical (SWAV), Viatris (VTRS), Universal Health Services (UHS), Fresenius Medical Care (FMS), and Insulet (PODD).
Life Time Group (NYSE:LTH) and Planet Fitness (NYSE:PLNT) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Planet Fitness has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Life Time Group. Planet Fitness is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Life Time Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Planet Fitness received 572 more outperform votes than Life Time Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.74% of users gave Planet Fitness an outperform vote while only 25.00% of users gave Life Time Group an outperform vote.
Life Time Group has a beta of 1.76, meaning that its share price is 76% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Planet Fitness has a beta of 1.37, meaning that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Life Time Group had 1 more articles in the media than Planet Fitness. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Life Time Group and 8 mentions for Planet Fitness. Planet Fitness' average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Life Time Group's score of 0.29 indicating that Planet Fitness is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Life Time Group currently has a consensus target price of $20.57, indicating a potential upside of 22.59%. Planet Fitness has a consensus target price of $71.86, indicating a potential upside of 12.91%. Given Life Time Group's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Life Time Group is more favorable than Planet Fitness.
Planet Fitness has a net margin of 13.66% compared to Life Time Group's net margin of 3.19%. Life Time Group's return on equity of 4.38% beat Planet Fitness' return on equity.
79.4% of Life Time Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.5% of Planet Fitness shares are held by institutional investors. 12.5% of Life Time Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.9% of Planet Fitness shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Planet Fitness beats Life Time Group on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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