PINC vs. MANT, TMX, RCM, EVH, FC, IT, BIO.B, ASND, LEGN, and BRBR
Should you be buying Premier stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Premier include ManTech International (MANT), Terminix Global (TMX), R1 RCM (RCM), Evolent Health (EVH), Franklin Covey (FC), Gartner (IT), Bio-Rad Laboratories (BIO.B), Ascendis Pharma A/S (ASND), Legend Biotech (LEGN), and BellRing Brands (BRBR).
Premier (NASDAQ:PINC) and ManTech International (NASDAQ:MANT) are both medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, risk and community ranking.
Premier presently has a consensus target price of $23.50, suggesting a potential upside of 24.21%. Given Premier's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Premier is more favorable than ManTech International.
Premier has a beta of 0.39, indicating that its stock price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ManTech International has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
74.4% of Premier shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.5% of ManTech International shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Premier shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of ManTech International shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Premier pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. ManTech International pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Premier pays out 131.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. ManTech International pays out 55.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, Premier had 15 more articles in the media than ManTech International. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Premier and 0 mentions for ManTech International. Premier's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat ManTech International's score of 0.00 indicating that Premier is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Premier has a net margin of 6.01% compared to ManTech International's net margin of 4.67%. Premier's return on equity of 11.71% beat ManTech International's return on equity.
Premier received 267 more outperform votes than ManTech International when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.00% of users gave Premier an outperform vote while only 50.15% of users gave ManTech International an outperform vote.
Premier has higher earnings, but lower revenue than ManTech International. Premier is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ManTech International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Premier beats ManTech International on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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