CLOV vs. SKLZ, ALHC, LUNG, ACB, DCGO, AURA, TNYA, TERN, NATR, and MODV
Should you be buying Clover Health Investments stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Clover Health Investments include Skillz (SKLZ), Alignment Healthcare (ALHC), Pulmonx (LUNG), Aurora Cannabis (ACB), DocGo (DCGO), Aura Biosciences (AURA), Tenaya Therapeutics (TNYA), Terns Pharmaceuticals (TERN), Nature's Sunshine Products (NATR), and ModivCare (MODV).
Clover Health Investments (NASDAQ:CLOV) and Skillz (NYSE:SKLZ) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk and media sentiment.
Clover Health Investments has a net margin of -8.63% compared to Skillz's net margin of -78.69%. Clover Health Investments' return on equity of -48.07% beat Skillz's return on equity.
Skillz has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Clover Health Investments. Clover Health Investments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Skillz, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
19.8% of Clover Health Investments shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.4% of Skillz shares are owned by institutional investors. 21.8% of Clover Health Investments shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 22.7% of Skillz shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Clover Health Investments has a beta of 1.88, meaning that its stock price is 88% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Skillz has a beta of 2.76, meaning that its stock price is 176% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Skillz had 6 more articles in the media than Clover Health Investments. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Skillz and 3 mentions for Clover Health Investments. Clover Health Investments' average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Skillz's score of -0.40 indicating that Clover Health Investments is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Clover Health Investments currently has a consensus price target of $1.50, indicating a potential upside of 60.62%. Skillz has a consensus price target of $11.50, indicating a potential upside of 80.25%. Given Skillz's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Skillz is more favorable than Clover Health Investments.
Skillz received 15 more outperform votes than Clover Health Investments when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.38% of users gave Skillz an outperform vote while only 39.62% of users gave Clover Health Investments an outperform vote.
Summary
Skillz beats Clover Health Investments on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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