HCSG vs. CSU, UNF, MGRC, KAR, VVI, PFMT, CTAS, CPRT, IRM, and BKD
Should you be buying Healthcare Services Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Healthcare Services Group include Capital Senior Living (CSU), UniFirst (UNF), McGrath RentCorp (MGRC), OPENLANE (KAR), Viad (VVI), Performant Financial (PFMT), Cintas (CTAS), Copart (CPRT), Iron Mountain (IRM), and Brookdale Senior Living (BKD).
Capital Senior Living (NYSE:CSU) and Healthcare Services Group (NASDAQ:HCSG) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation and profitability.
In the previous week, Healthcare Services Group had 4 more articles in the media than Capital Senior Living. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Healthcare Services Group and 0 mentions for Capital Senior Living. Capital Senior Living's average media sentiment score of 1.63 beat Healthcare Services Group's score of 0.19 indicating that Healthcare Services Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Healthcare Services Group has higher revenue and earnings than Capital Senior Living. Capital Senior Living is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Healthcare Services Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
62.7% of Capital Senior Living shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.0% of Healthcare Services Group shares are held by institutional investors. 5.5% of Capital Senior Living shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Healthcare Services Group shares are held by 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.
Healthcare Services Group received 16 more outperform votes than Capital Senior Living when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.34% of users gave Capital Senior Living an outperform vote while only 55.95% of users gave Healthcare Services Group an outperform vote.
Capital Senior Living currently has a consensus price target of $3,400.00, indicating a potential upside of ∞. Healthcare Services Group has a consensus price target of $14.50, indicating a potential upside of 35.14%. Given Healthcare Services Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Capital Senior Living is more favorable than Healthcare Services Group.
Capital Senior Living has a net margin of 40.40% compared to Capital Senior Living's net margin of 2.44%. Capital Senior Living's return on equity of 11.44% beat Healthcare Services Group's return on equity.
Capital Senior Living has a beta of 2.15, meaning that its share price is 115% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Healthcare Services Group has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Healthcare Services Group beats Capital Senior Living on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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