SGRY vs. CYH, UHS, THC, AXNX, RARE, PRCT, LIVN, PBH, NVST, and BHVN
Should you be buying Surgery Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Surgery Partners include Community Health Systems (CYH), Universal Health Services (UHS), Tenet Healthcare (THC), Axonics (AXNX), Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical (RARE), PROCEPT BioRobotics (PRCT), LivaNova (LIVN), Prestige Consumer Healthcare (PBH), Envista (NVST), and Biohaven (BHVN). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Community Health Systems (NYSE:CYH) and Surgery Partners (NASDAQ:SGRY) are both medical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
Surgery Partners has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Community Health Systems.
Community Health Systems has a beta of 1.55, meaning that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Surgery Partners has a beta of 2.75, meaning that its share price is 175% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Community Health Systems had 3 more articles in the media than Surgery Partners. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Community Health Systems and 4 mentions for Surgery Partners. Community Health Systems' average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat Surgery Partners' score of 0.09 indicating that Surgery Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Community Health Systems currently has a consensus target price of $4.05, suggesting a potential upside of 12.19%. Surgery Partners has a consensus target price of $43.13, suggesting a potential upside of 66.96%. Given Community Health Systems' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Surgery Partners is more favorable than Community Health Systems.
Surgery Partners has a net margin of 0.02% compared to Surgery Partners' net margin of -0.99%. Community Health Systems' return on equity of 3.65% beat Surgery Partners' return on equity.
Community Health Systems received 249 more outperform votes than Surgery Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.70% of users gave Surgery Partners an outperform vote while only 53.27% of users gave Community Health Systems an outperform vote.
85.0% of Community Health Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.9% of Community Health Systems shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Surgery Partners shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Surgery Partners beats Community Health Systems on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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