ACHC vs. EHC, ENSG, SEM, BKD, USPH, WOOF, CYH, HCA, ALC, and THC
Should you be buying Acadia Healthcare stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Acadia Healthcare include Encompass Health (EHC), The Ensign Group (ENSG), Select Medical (SEM), Brookdale Senior Living (BKD), U.S. Physical Therapy (USPH), Petco Health and Wellness (WOOF), Community Health Systems (CYH), HCA Healthcare (HCA), Alcon (ALC), and Tenet Healthcare (THC). These companies are all part of the "health care facilities" industry.
Acadia Healthcare vs.
Acadia Healthcare (NASDAQ:ACHC) and Encompass Health (NYSE:EHC) are both medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations and risk.
Acadia Healthcare currently has a consensus price target of $52.19, indicating a potential upside of 73.27%. Encompass Health has a consensus price target of $107.67, indicating a potential upside of 6.40%. Given Acadia Healthcare's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Acadia Healthcare is more favorable than Encompass Health.
Encompass Health has higher revenue and earnings than Acadia Healthcare. Acadia Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Encompass Health, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Acadia Healthcare has a net margin of 8.99% compared to Encompass Health's net margin of 8.48%. Encompass Health's return on equity of 17.56% beat Acadia Healthcare's return on equity.
Acadia Healthcare has a beta of 1.38, meaning that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Encompass Health has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Acadia Healthcare received 58 more outperform votes than Encompass Health when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.69% of users gave Encompass Health an outperform vote while only 66.01% of users gave Acadia Healthcare an outperform vote.
97.3% of Encompass Health shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Acadia Healthcare shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Encompass Health shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Encompass Health had 2 more articles in the media than Acadia Healthcare. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Encompass Health and 10 mentions for Acadia Healthcare. Encompass Health's average media sentiment score of 1.51 beat Acadia Healthcare's score of 0.29 indicating that Encompass Health is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Encompass Health beats Acadia Healthcare on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:ACHC) was last updated on 3/28/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
