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Aveanna Healthcare (AVAH) Competitors

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$5.84 +0.04 (+0.69%)
(As of 11/22/2024 ET)

AVAH vs. PNTG, AHCO, APR, VMD, TLMD, GH, OPCH, SHC, BTSG, and VCYT

Should you be buying Aveanna Healthcare stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aveanna Healthcare include The Pennant Group (PNTG), AdaptHealth (AHCO), Apria (APR), Viemed Healthcare (VMD), SOC Telemed (TLMD), Guardant Health (GH), Option Care Health (OPCH), Sotera Health (SHC), BrightSpring Health Services (BTSG), and Veracyte (VCYT). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.

Aveanna Healthcare vs.

Aveanna Healthcare (NASDAQ:AVAH) and The Pennant Group (NASDAQ:PNTG) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends and risk.

The Pennant Group received 15 more outperform votes than Aveanna Healthcare when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 47.06% of users gave The Pennant Group an outperform vote while only 38.46% of users gave Aveanna Healthcare an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Aveanna HealthcareOutperform Votes
25
38.46%
Underperform Votes
40
61.54%
The Pennant GroupOutperform Votes
40
47.06%
Underperform Votes
45
52.94%

Aveanna Healthcare presently has a consensus price target of $4.27, indicating a potential downside of 26.94%. The Pennant Group has a consensus price target of $38.25, indicating a potential upside of 22.83%. Given The Pennant Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe The Pennant Group is more favorable than Aveanna Healthcare.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Aveanna Healthcare
2 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.75
The Pennant Group
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.75

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Aveanna Healthcare$1.90B0.60-$134.52M-$0.34-17.18
The Pennant Group$544.89M1.96$13.38M$0.6845.79

Aveanna Healthcare has a beta of 2.13, indicating that its share price is 113% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, The Pennant Group has a beta of 2.02, indicating that its share price is 102% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, The Pennant Group had 4 more articles in the media than Aveanna Healthcare. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for The Pennant Group and 0 mentions for Aveanna Healthcare. The Pennant Group's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Aveanna Healthcare's score of 0.00 indicating that The Pennant Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Aveanna Healthcare Neutral
The Pennant Group Positive

The Pennant Group has a net margin of 3.24% compared to Aveanna Healthcare's net margin of -3.32%. The Pennant Group's return on equity of 13.47% beat Aveanna Healthcare's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Aveanna Healthcare-3.32% N/A -0.89%
The Pennant Group 3.24%13.47%3.81%

88.0% of Aveanna Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.9% of The Pennant Group shares are held by institutional investors. 7.8% of Aveanna Healthcare shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.8% of The Pennant Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

The Pennant Group beats Aveanna Healthcare on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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AVAH vs. The Competition

MetricAveanna HealthcareHome health care services IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$1.13B$2.97B$5.38B$8.84B
Dividend YieldN/A0.37%5.13%4.09%
P/E Ratio-17.1828.17102.4617.58
Price / Sales0.601.201,234.85158.43
Price / Cash10.0616.5940.4736.33
Price / Book-7.212.597.096.50
Net Income-$134.52M-$57.02M$119.65M$226.22M
7 Day Performance4.85%2.21%2.06%3.76%
1 Month Performance14.29%-0.49%-2.46%4.63%
1 Year Performance153.91%22.32%33.95%29.20%

Aveanna Healthcare Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
AVAH
Aveanna Healthcare
0.4915 of 5 stars
$5.84
+0.7%
$4.27
-26.9%
+153.9%$1.13B$1.90B-17.1833,500
PNTG
The Pennant Group
3.6624 of 5 stars
$30.50
-0.9%
$38.25
+25.4%
+126.5%$1.05B$544.89M44.855,791Positive News
AHCO
AdaptHealth
3.0323 of 5 stars
$9.89
+1.7%
$11.67
+18.0%
+15.9%$1.33B$3.20B-5.9910,700Analyst Forecast
APR
Apria
N/A$37.50
flat
N/AN/A$1.34B$1.15B0.006,080
VMD
Viemed Healthcare
2.1033 of 5 stars
$8.71
+2.0%
N/A+11.9%$338.97M$183.01M31.74630Positive News
TLMD
SOC Telemed
N/A$3.00
flat
N/AN/A$302.52M$94.44M-5.26226
GH
Guardant Health
3.9877 of 5 stars
$31.09
+1.3%
$40.60
+30.6%
+40.6%$3.84B$563.95M-7.311,779
OPCH
Option Care Health
4.9817 of 5 stars
$22.46
+2.7%
$30.83
+37.3%
-23.3%$3.82B$4.30B18.877,802Positive News
SHC
Sotera Health
4.2362 of 5 stars
$12.41
-6.1%
$16.50
+33.0%
-6.6%$3.52B$1.05B49.643,000Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume
BTSG
BrightSpring Health Services
2.8925 of 5 stars
$18.75
-0.2%
$16.79
-10.4%
N/A$3.26B$8.83B-72.0835,000Positive News
VCYT
Veracyte
4.1662 of 5 stars
$38.94
-0.7%
$41.25
+5.9%
+51.6%$3.02B$361.05M-261.33790

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This page (NASDAQ:AVAH) was last updated on 11/23/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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