UHS vs. THC, SGRY, DVA, CRL, PODD, UTHR, MEDP, RDY, SWAV, and SRPT
Should you be buying Universal Health Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Universal Health Services include Tenet Healthcare (THC), Surgery Partners (SGRY), DaVita (DVA), Charles River Laboratories International (CRL), Insulet (PODD), United Therapeutics (UTHR), Medpace (MEDP), Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (RDY), Shockwave Medical (SWAV), and Sarepta Therapeutics (SRPT). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Tenet Healthcare (NYSE:THC) and Universal Health Services (NYSE:UHS) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership and valuation.
Tenet Healthcare presently has a consensus price target of $113.19, suggesting a potential downside of 11.90%. Universal Health Services has a consensus price target of $183.20, suggesting a potential upside of 3.10%. Given Tenet Healthcare's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Universal Health Services is more favorable than Tenet Healthcare.
Tenet Healthcare has a net margin of 12.53% compared to Tenet Healthcare's net margin of 5.57%. Universal Health Services' return on equity of 26.76% beat Tenet Healthcare's return on equity.
Tenet Healthcare received 34 more outperform votes than Universal Health Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.57% of users gave Universal Health Services an outperform vote while only 59.78% of users gave Tenet Healthcare an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Tenet Healthcare had 9 more articles in the media than Universal Health Services. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Tenet Healthcare and 15 mentions for Universal Health Services. Universal Health Services' average media sentiment score of 1.09 beat Tenet Healthcare's score of 0.74 indicating that Tenet Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Universal Health Services has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Tenet Healthcare. Tenet Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Universal Health Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
95.4% of Tenet Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.1% of Universal Health Services shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Tenet Healthcare shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 16.1% of Universal Health Services shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Tenet Healthcare has a beta of 2.09, meaning that its stock price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Universal Health Services has a beta of 1.26, meaning that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Tenet Healthcare beats Universal Health Services on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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