ACHC vs. HNGR, IMAC, BEAT, THC, UHS, EHC, ENSG, SEM, USPH, and BKD
Should you be buying Acadia Healthcare stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Acadia Healthcare include Hanger (HNGR), IMAC (IMAC), BioTelemetry (BEAT), Tenet Healthcare (THC), Universal Health Services (UHS), Encompass Health (EHC), The Ensign Group (ENSG), Select Medical (SEM), U.S. Physical Therapy (USPH), and Brookdale Senior Living (BKD). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Hanger (NYSE:HNGR) and Acadia Healthcare (NASDAQ:ACHC) are both medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, valuation, earnings and institutional ownership.
Hanger has a beta of 1.28, indicating that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Acadia Healthcare has a beta of 1.31, indicating that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Acadia Healthcare had 6 more articles in the media than Hanger. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Acadia Healthcare and 0 mentions for Hanger. Hanger's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Acadia Healthcare's score of -0.06 indicating that Acadia Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
79.2% of Hanger shares are held by institutional investors. 4.4% of Hanger shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Acadia Healthcare shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Acadia Healthcare has a consensus target price of $87.56, indicating a potential upside of 27.09%. Given Hanger's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Acadia Healthcare is more favorable than Hanger.
Acadia Healthcare received 554 more outperform votes than Hanger when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.71% of users gave Acadia Healthcare an outperform vote while only 23.08% of users gave Hanger an outperform vote.
Hanger has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Acadia Healthcare. Acadia Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hanger, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hanger has a net margin of 3.17% compared to Hanger's net margin of -0.38%. Acadia Healthcare's return on equity of 35.72% beat Hanger's return on equity.
Summary
Acadia Healthcare beats Hanger on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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