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ACHC vs. ITGR, BKD, SEM, USPH, WOOF, CYH, HCA, ALC, THC, and EHC

Should you be buying Acadia Healthcare stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Acadia Healthcare include Integer (ITGR), Brookdale Senior Living (BKD), Select Medical (SEM), U.S. Physical Therapy (USPH), Petco Health and Wellness (WOOF), Community Health Systems (CYH), HCA Healthcare (HCA), Alcon (ALC), Tenet Healthcare (THC), and Encompass Health (EHC).

Acadia Healthcare vs. Its Competitors

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

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Acadia Healthcare$3.23B0.66$255.61M$1.5115.21
Integer$1.79B2.10$119.90M$2.2747.39

Integer has a net margin of 4.61% compared to Acadia Healthcare's net margin of 4.31%. Integer's return on equity of 12.27% beat Acadia Healthcare's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Acadia Healthcare4.31% 8.34% 4.20%
Integer 4.61%12.27%6.23%

Acadia Healthcare currently has a consensus target price of $40.77, suggesting a potential upside of 77.58%. Integer has a consensus target price of $140.25, suggesting a potential upside of 30.37%. Given Acadia Healthcare's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Acadia Healthcare is more favorable than Integer.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Acadia Healthcare
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
9 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.69
Integer
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
7 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Acadia Healthcare has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Integer has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.

99.3% of Integer shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of Acadia Healthcare shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Integer shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Integer had 1 more articles in the media than Acadia Healthcare. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Integer and 6 mentions for Acadia Healthcare. Integer's average media sentiment score of 1.62 beat Acadia Healthcare's score of 1.02 indicating that Integer is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Acadia Healthcare
4 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Integer
6 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

Summary

Integer beats Acadia Healthcare on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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ACHC vs. The Competition

MetricAcadia HealthcareMED IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$2.12B$21.40B$5.75B$9.76B
Dividend YieldN/A0.44%4.10%4.04%
P/E Ratio15.2126.5483.2726.59
Price / Sales0.661.34535.03111.31
Price / Cash4.669.7837.4459.26
Price / Book0.692.4110.556.58
Net Income$255.61M$1.65B$3.27B$265.95M
7 Day Performance2.32%-0.41%0.40%0.17%
1 Month Performance5.47%7.91%7.31%3.90%
1 Year Performance-71.98%-25.04%46.58%19.67%

Acadia Healthcare Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ACHC
Acadia Healthcare
4.6843 of 5 stars
$22.96
+1.5%
$40.77
+77.6%
-72.0%$2.12B$3.23B15.2125,500
ITGR
Integer
4.2225 of 5 stars
$108.98
-1.4%
$140.25
+28.7%
-17.3%$3.87B$1.72B19.3311,000News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Upgrade
BKD
Brookdale Senior Living
3.1774 of 5 stars
$7.65
-0.9%
$7.80
+1.9%
+8.4%$1.81B$3.13B0.0036,000Positive News
SEM
Select Medical
4.997 of 5 stars
$13.18
-1.8%
$20.25
+53.7%
-63.9%$1.66B$5.19B9.3244,100Positive News
USPH
U.S. Physical Therapy
3.8577 of 5 stars
$85.54
-2.2%
$110.25
+28.9%
-3.2%$1.33B$671.34M37.357,028Positive News
WOOF
Petco Health and Wellness
2.4725 of 5 stars
$3.34
-3.5%
$3.75
+12.2%
+25.1%$1.09B$6.12B0.0029,000Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
CYH
Community Health Systems
4.2022 of 5 stars
$2.72
-1.4%
$3.58
+31.4%
-49.4%$386.73M$12.63B0.0060,000News Coverage
Positive News
HCA
HCA Healthcare
4.5713 of 5 stars
$403.06
-0.5%
$398.58
-1.1%
+2.2%$94.76B$70.60B16.49316,000News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Forecast
ALC
Alcon
3.3459 of 5 stars
$80.82
-1.5%
$96.06
+18.9%
-18.3%$40.46B$9.91B27.1625,599Analyst Forecast
THC
Tenet Healthcare
4.7085 of 5 stars
$180.15
+0.4%
$191.88
+6.5%
+11.0%$15.86B$20.67B12.1798,000News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Forecast
EHC
Encompass Health
4.8373 of 5 stars
$122.08
-0.6%
$134.00
+9.8%
+30.8%$12.37B$5.37B24.7140,000Positive News
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