THC vs. ALC, UHS, EHC, ENSG, ACHC, SEM, USPH, BKD, WOOF, and CYH
Should you be buying Tenet Healthcare stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tenet Healthcare include Alcon (ALC), Universal Health Services (UHS), Encompass Health (EHC), The Ensign Group (ENSG), Acadia Healthcare (ACHC), Select Medical (SEM), U.S. Physical Therapy (USPH), Brookdale Senior Living (BKD), Petco Health and Wellness (WOOF), and Community Health Systems (CYH). These companies are all part of the "health care facilities" industry.
Alcon (NYSE:ALC) and Tenet Healthcare (NYSE:THC) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, earnings, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Alcon currently has a consensus target price of $94.71, suggesting a potential upside of 6.26%. Tenet Healthcare has a consensus target price of $120.41, suggesting a potential downside of 10.95%. Given Tenet Healthcare's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Alcon is more favorable than Tenet Healthcare.
Tenet Healthcare received 477 more outperform votes than Alcon when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.72% of users gave Alcon an outperform vote while only 59.96% of users gave Tenet Healthcare an outperform vote.
53.9% of Alcon shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.4% of Tenet Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of Alcon shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Tenet Healthcare shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Tenet Healthcare had 16 more articles in the media than Alcon. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Tenet Healthcare and 3 mentions for Alcon. Alcon's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Tenet Healthcare's score of -0.35 indicating that Tenet Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Tenet Healthcare has a net margin of 12.53% compared to Tenet Healthcare's net margin of 10.96%. Alcon's return on equity of 26.76% beat Tenet Healthcare's return on equity.
Alcon has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Tenet Healthcare. Tenet Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alcon, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alcon has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tenet Healthcare has a beta of 2.09, meaning that its stock price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Tenet Healthcare beats Alcon on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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