BTSG vs. ADUS, AHCO, AMED, EHAB, OPCH, NAMS, GLPG, NEO, ZLAB, and SNDX
Should you be buying BrightSpring Health Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BrightSpring Health Services include Addus HomeCare (ADUS), AdaptHealth (AHCO), Amedisys (AMED), Enhabit (EHAB), Option Care Health (OPCH), NewAmsterdam Pharma (NAMS), Galapagos (GLPG), NeoGenomics (NEO), Zai Lab (ZLAB), and Syndax Pharmaceuticals (SNDX). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
BrightSpring Health Services (NASDAQ:BTSG) and Addus HomeCare (NASDAQ:ADUS) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability and risk.
95.3% of Addus HomeCare shares are held by institutional investors. 4.6% of Addus HomeCare shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
BrightSpring Health Services presently has a consensus price target of $15.85, indicating a potential upside of 38.19%. Addus HomeCare has a consensus price target of $108.57, indicating a potential downside of 1.89%. Given BrightSpring Health Services' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe BrightSpring Health Services is more favorable than Addus HomeCare.
In the previous week, Addus HomeCare had 13 more articles in the media than BrightSpring Health Services. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Addus HomeCare and 1 mentions for BrightSpring Health Services. BrightSpring Health Services' average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Addus HomeCare's score of 0.62 indicating that BrightSpring Health Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Addus HomeCare has lower revenue, but higher earnings than BrightSpring Health Services.
Addus HomeCare has a net margin of 6.04% compared to BrightSpring Health Services' net margin of 0.00%. Addus HomeCare's return on equity of 10.03% beat BrightSpring Health Services' return on equity.
Addus HomeCare received 282 more outperform votes than BrightSpring Health Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 88.24% of users gave BrightSpring Health Services an outperform vote while only 67.04% of users gave Addus HomeCare an outperform vote.
Summary
Addus HomeCare beats BrightSpring Health Services on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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