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Acadia Healthcare (ACHC) Competitors

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$39.00 -0.10 (-0.26%)
(As of 09:15 AM ET)

ACHC vs. HNGR, BEAT, IMAC, THC, UHS, EHC, ENSG, SEM, USPH, and WOOF

Should you be buying Acadia Healthcare stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Acadia Healthcare include Hanger (HNGR), BioTelemetry (BEAT), IMAC (IMAC), Tenet Healthcare (THC), Universal Health Services (UHS), Encompass Health (EHC), The Ensign Group (ENSG), Select Medical (SEM), U.S. Physical Therapy (USPH), and Petco Health and Wellness (WOOF).

Acadia Healthcare vs.

Hanger (NYSE:HNGR) and Acadia Healthcare (NASDAQ:ACHC) are both medical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, risk, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends and community ranking.

Acadia Healthcare has a consensus price target of $83.33, suggesting a potential upside of 113.68%. Given Acadia Healthcare's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Acadia Healthcare is more favorable than Hanger.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Hanger
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Acadia Healthcare
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.60

79.2% of Hanger shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.4% of Hanger shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Acadia Healthcare shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

In the previous week, Acadia Healthcare had 52 more articles in the media than Hanger. MarketBeat recorded 52 mentions for Acadia Healthcare and 0 mentions for Hanger. Acadia Healthcare's average media sentiment score of 0.15 beat Hanger's score of -0.06 indicating that Acadia Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Hanger Neutral
Acadia Healthcare Neutral

Hanger has a beta of 1.28, meaning that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Acadia Healthcare has a beta of 1.33, meaning that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Hanger has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Acadia Healthcare. Acadia Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hanger, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Hanger$1.12B0.65$41.98M$0.9519.71
Acadia Healthcare$2.93B1.24-$21.67M$3.0512.79

Acadia Healthcare received 558 more outperform votes than Hanger when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.16% of users gave Acadia Healthcare an outperform vote while only 23.08% of users gave Hanger an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
HangerOutperform Votes
3
23.08%
Underperform Votes
10
76.92%
Acadia HealthcareOutperform Votes
561
66.16%
Underperform Votes
287
33.84%

Acadia Healthcare has a net margin of 8.99% compared to Hanger's net margin of 3.17%. Hanger's return on equity of 35.72% beat Acadia Healthcare's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Hanger3.17% 35.72% 4.00%
Acadia Healthcare 8.99%11.12%5.77%

Summary

Acadia Healthcare beats Hanger on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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ACHC vs. The Competition

MetricAcadia HealthcareSpecialty outpatient clinics IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$3.62B$1.51B$5.07B$8.90B
Dividend YieldN/A0.31%4.99%4.07%
P/E Ratio12.794.2787.8613.46
Price / Sales1.2413.451,228.8287.66
Price / Cash7.587.5839.5136.27
Price / Book1.195.396.946.30
Net Income-$21.67M$36.27M$119.12M$225.93M
7 Day Performance-0.91%1.04%-1.84%-1.32%
1 Month Performance-26.64%-7.92%-3.65%0.60%
1 Year Performance-46.28%-49.54%31.64%26.23%

Acadia Healthcare Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ACHC
Acadia Healthcare
4.2458 of 5 stars
$39.00
-0.3%
$83.33
+113.7%
-46.2%$3.62B$2.93B12.7923,500Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
HNGR
Hanger
N/A$18.72
flat
N/AN/A$732.38M$1.12B19.715,200
BEAT
BioTelemetry
1.8598 of 5 stars
$2.48
-0.8%
$8.00
+222.6%
+89.3%$66.66MN/A0.001,700
IMAC
IMAC
N/A$1.03
+1.0%
N/A-30.6%$27.28M$15.22M0.00106
THC
Tenet Healthcare
4.9292 of 5 stars
$148.74
-2.0%
$170.38
+14.5%
+133.9%$14.15B$20.55B4.87106,500Positive News
UHS
Universal Health Services
4.9935 of 5 stars
$194.69
-1.4%
$231.14
+18.7%
+45.2%$12.84B$14.28B13.1396,700Dividend Announcement
Analyst Revision
Positive News
EHC
Encompass Health
4.8996 of 5 stars
$98.22
-0.7%
$107.11
+9.1%
+52.3%$9.90B$4.80B23.8938,000Analyst Revision
ENSG
The Ensign Group
4.9444 of 5 stars
$145.00
+0.2%
$164.33
+13.3%
+34.1%$8.31B$3.73B35.0335,300Positive News
SEM
Select Medical
4.4056 of 5 stars
$37.97
-0.3%
$40.75
+7.3%
+63.0%$4.92B$6.66B17.8054,600Analyst Downgrade
Analyst Revision
USPH
U.S. Physical Therapy
2.2759 of 5 stars
$94.17
+3.9%
$105.00
+11.5%
+9.4%$1.42B$604.80M100.186,720Positive News
WOOF
Petco Health and Wellness
1.6982 of 5 stars
$4.04
+1.8%
$3.49
-13.7%
-0.5%$1.26B$6.26B0.0029,000

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This page (NASDAQ:ACHC) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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