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Acadia Healthcare (ACHC) Competitors

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$37.90 -0.69 (-1.79%)
(As of 12/20/2024 05:40 PM ET)

ACHC vs. THC, UHS, EHC, ENSG, SEM, USPH, WOOF, BKD, CYH, and HCA

Should you be buying Acadia Healthcare stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Acadia Healthcare include Tenet Healthcare (THC), Universal Health Services (UHS), Encompass Health (EHC), The Ensign Group (ENSG), Select Medical (SEM), U.S. Physical Therapy (USPH), Petco Health and Wellness (WOOF), Brookdale Senior Living (BKD), Community Health Systems (CYH), and HCA Healthcare (HCA). These companies are all part of the "health care facilities" industry.

Acadia Healthcare vs.

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

Acadia Healthcare has a beta of 1.29, indicating that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tenet Healthcare has a beta of 2.06, indicating that its share price is 106% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Acadia Healthcare currently has a consensus target price of $75.44, indicating a potential upside of 99.06%. Tenet Healthcare has a consensus target price of $166.88, indicating a potential upside of 28.90%. Given Acadia Healthcare's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Acadia Healthcare is more favorable than Tenet Healthcare.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Acadia Healthcare
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
7 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.70
Tenet Healthcare
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
12 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.94

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Acadia Healthcare$3.12B1.13-$21.67M$3.0512.43
Tenet Healthcare$20.97B0.59$611M$31.214.15

95.4% of Tenet Healthcare shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of Acadia Healthcare shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Tenet Healthcare shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Tenet Healthcare received 123 more outperform votes than Acadia Healthcare when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.00% of users gave Acadia Healthcare an outperform vote while only 60.92% of users gave Tenet Healthcare an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Acadia HealthcareOutperform Votes
563
66.00%
Underperform Votes
290
34.00%
Tenet HealthcareOutperform Votes
686
60.92%
Underperform Votes
440
39.08%

Tenet Healthcare has a net margin of 14.91% compared to Acadia Healthcare's net margin of 8.99%. Tenet Healthcare's return on equity of 24.05% beat Acadia Healthcare's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Acadia Healthcare8.99% 11.12% 5.77%
Tenet Healthcare 14.91%24.05%3.85%

In the previous week, Tenet Healthcare had 4 more articles in the media than Acadia Healthcare. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Tenet Healthcare and 18 mentions for Acadia Healthcare. Tenet Healthcare's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Acadia Healthcare's score of 0.24 indicating that Tenet Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Acadia Healthcare
5 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
3 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Tenet Healthcare
9 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
6 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Tenet Healthcare beats Acadia Healthcare on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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ACHC vs. The Competition

MetricAcadia HealthcareSpecialty outpatient clinics IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$3.52B$1.52B$5.13B$9.07B
Dividend YieldN/A0.30%5.08%4.23%
P/E Ratio12.434.1489.5817.17
Price / Sales1.1316.291,116.12116.95
Price / Cash8.148.1442.8237.86
Price / Book1.261.264.774.78
Net Income-$21.67M$36.27M$120.15M$225.60M
7 Day Performance-6.79%-5.98%-1.92%-1.23%
1 Month Performance-1.79%4.74%11.47%3.36%
1 Year Performance-50.58%-41.57%30.52%16.60%

Acadia Healthcare Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ACHC
Acadia Healthcare
4.5577 of 5 stars
$37.90
-1.8%
$75.44
+99.1%
-50.6%$3.52B$3.12B12.4323,500Analyst Upgrade
Analyst Revision
High Trading Volume
THC
Tenet Healthcare
4.9401 of 5 stars
$136.25
-0.3%
$164.69
+20.9%
+70.6%$12.96B$20.97B4.38106,500Analyst Downgrade
Analyst Revision
UHS
Universal Health Services
4.997 of 5 stars
$186.77
-0.3%
$223.29
+19.6%
+19.3%$12.32B$14.28B12.4296,700Analyst Forecast
EHC
Encompass Health
4.9112 of 5 stars
$99.06
+0.9%
$107.11
+8.1%
+42.1%$9.98B$5.22B23.7238,000Positive News
ENSG
The Ensign Group
4.9801 of 5 stars
$143.02
+0.4%
$164.33
+14.9%
+19.8%$8.19B$4.11B34.4835,300Dividend Increase
Positive News
SEM
Select Medical
4.9682 of 5 stars
$19.82
+1.7%
$45.67
+130.4%
-20.6%$2.57B$6.66B9.1054,600
USPH
U.S. Physical Therapy
3.9789 of 5 stars
$98.03
+4.9%
$114.00
+16.3%
-3.0%$1.48B$604.80M99.436,720Positive News
Gap Up
WOOF
Petco Health and Wellness
1.2038 of 5 stars
$4.31
-3.1%
$4.16
-3.6%
+29.8%$1.35B$6.24B-11.1329,000Analyst Forecast
Positive News
BKD
Brookdale Senior Living
4.2017 of 5 stars
$5.26
-0.2%
$7.75
+47.3%
-7.5%$1.05B$3.10B-5.7325,200Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
CYH
Community Health Systems
3.5996 of 5 stars
$3.44
-0.9%
$4.77
+38.6%
-1.7%$477.98M$12.55B-1.1561,000Positive News
HCA
HCA Healthcare
4.943 of 5 stars
$313.42
-0.2%
$387.13
+23.5%
+13.0%$79.39B$69.62B14.10310,000Analyst Forecast

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