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Aveanna Healthcare (AVAH) Competitors

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$4.47 -0.11 (-2.40%)
(As of 01:26 PM ET)

AVAH vs. SHC, VCYT, BTSG, LFST, SGRY, CON, PRVA, ARDT, ADUS, and PACS

Should you be buying Aveanna Healthcare stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aveanna Healthcare include Sotera Health (SHC), Veracyte (VCYT), BrightSpring Health Services (BTSG), LifeStance Health Group (LFST), Surgery Partners (SGRY), Concentra Group Holdings Parent (CON), Privia Health Group (PRVA), Ardent Health Partners (ARDT), Addus HomeCare (ADUS), and PACS Group (PACS). These companies are all part of the "healthcare" industry.

Aveanna Healthcare vs.

Sotera Health (NASDAQ:SHC) and Aveanna Healthcare (NASDAQ:AVAH) are both medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, dividends and analyst recommendations.

Sotera Health has a beta of 1.96, suggesting that its stock price is 96% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Aveanna Healthcare has a beta of 2.2, suggesting that its stock price is 120% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Sotera Health received 24 more outperform votes than Aveanna Healthcare when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.65% of users gave Sotera Health an outperform vote while only 38.46% of users gave Aveanna Healthcare an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Sotera HealthOutperform Votes
49
57.65%
Underperform Votes
36
42.35%
Aveanna HealthcareOutperform Votes
25
38.46%
Underperform Votes
40
61.54%

91.0% of Sotera Health shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.0% of Aveanna Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. 55.1% of Sotera Health shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.8% of Aveanna Healthcare shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Sotera Health has a net margin of 6.31% compared to Aveanna Healthcare's net margin of -3.32%. Sotera Health's return on equity of 42.27% beat Aveanna Healthcare's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Sotera Health6.31% 42.27% 6.02%
Aveanna Healthcare -3.32%N/A -0.89%

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Sotera Health$1.12B3.28$51.38M$0.2551.88
Aveanna Healthcare$1.98B0.44-$134.52M-$0.34-13.18

Sotera Health presently has a consensus target price of $16.08, indicating a potential upside of 24.00%. Aveanna Healthcare has a consensus target price of $4.27, indicating a potential downside of 4.76%. Given Sotera Health's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Sotera Health is more favorable than Aveanna Healthcare.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Sotera Health
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.57
Aveanna Healthcare
1 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

In the previous week, Sotera Health had 5 more articles in the media than Aveanna Healthcare. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Sotera Health and 1 mentions for Aveanna Healthcare. Sotera Health's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Aveanna Healthcare's score of 0.50 indicating that Sotera Health is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Sotera Health
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Aveanna Healthcare
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Sotera Health beats Aveanna Healthcare on 16 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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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$865.65M$2.81B$5.16B$9.09B
Dividend YieldN/A0.38%5.12%4.26%
P/E Ratio-13.1827.2487.3217.12
Price / Sales0.441.121,157.79119.34
Price / Cash9.0616.4843.2337.85
Price / Book-6.593.134.784.77
Net Income-$134.52M-$57.02M$120.55M$225.50M
7 Day Performance-9.86%-4.32%-1.55%-1.34%
1 Month Performance-23.29%-4.83%13.71%0.44%
1 Year Performance64.10%8.45%28.65%15.39%

Aveanna Healthcare Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
AVAH
Aveanna Healthcare
0.7166 of 5 stars
$4.47
-2.4%
$4.27
-4.5%
+67.8%$863.72M$1.98B-13.1533,500
SHC
Sotera Health
3.6049 of 5 stars
$12.95
-1.5%
$16.08
+24.2%
-20.4%$3.67B$1.05B52.603,000Positive News
VCYT
Veracyte
4.0703 of 5 stars
$43.20
0.0%
$41.13
-4.8%
+44.6%$3.35B$361.05M-288.13790Positive News
BTSG
BrightSpring Health Services
2.2121 of 5 stars
$19.07
+2.7%
$18.50
-3.0%
N/A$3.32B$10.59B-71.3835,000
LFST
LifeStance Health Group
1.6971 of 5 stars
$7.74
+7.9%
$8.70
+12.4%
-5.0%$2.96B$1.21B-29.509,325Positive News
Gap Up
SGRY
Surgery Partners
3.2589 of 5 stars
$21.76
+6.9%
$36.56
+68.0%
-34.2%$2.77B$2.99B-46.1713,500Positive News
CON
Concentra Group Holdings Parent
N/A$21.37
+4.2%
$28.50
+33.4%
N/A$2.72B$1.88B0.0011,000Gap Up
PRVA
Privia Health Group
2.9025 of 5 stars
$21.88
+4.4%
$24.80
+13.3%
-15.4%$2.63B$1.66B209.621,102
ARDT
Ardent Health Partners
N/A$16.71
+0.1%
$21.82
+30.6%
N/A$2.39B$5.71B0.0024,200Positive News
ADUS
Addus HomeCare
4.7678 of 5 stars
$129.95
+4.0%
$133.67
+2.9%
+36.4%$2.36B$1.06B28.6034,846Analyst Revision
Positive News
PACS
PACS Group
3.6495 of 5 stars
$15.26
-1.0%
$39.88
+161.3%
N/A$2.33B$3.11B0.0032,433

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This page (NASDAQ:AVAH) was last updated on 12/23/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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