SGRY vs. THC, UHS, CYH, SSY, HCA, INCY, TECH, PODD, SWAV, and FMS
Should you be buying Surgery Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Surgery Partners include Tenet Healthcare (THC), Universal Health Services (UHS), Community Health Systems (CYH), SunLink Health Systems (SSY), HCA Healthcare (HCA), Incyte (INCY), Bio-Techne (TECH), Insulet (PODD), Shockwave Medical (SWAV), and Fresenius Medical Care (FMS). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Surgery Partners (NASDAQ:SGRY) and Tenet Healthcare (NYSE:THC) are both medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.
Tenet Healthcare received 360 more outperform votes than Surgery Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.96% of users gave Tenet Healthcare an outperform vote while only 56.70% of users gave Surgery Partners an outperform vote.
Surgery Partners currently has a consensus target price of $42.86, suggesting a potential upside of 55.28%. Tenet Healthcare has a consensus target price of $120.41, suggesting a potential downside of 10.95%. Given Surgery Partners' higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Surgery Partners is more favorable than Tenet Healthcare.
Tenet Healthcare has a net margin of 12.53% compared to Surgery Partners' net margin of 0.02%. Tenet Healthcare's return on equity of 26.76% beat Surgery Partners' return on equity.
Tenet Healthcare has higher revenue and earnings than Surgery Partners.
In the previous week, Tenet Healthcare had 10 more articles in the media than Surgery Partners. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Tenet Healthcare and 8 mentions for Surgery Partners. Surgery Partners' average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Tenet Healthcare's score of 0.64 indicating that Surgery Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Surgery Partners has a beta of 2.75, suggesting that its stock price is 175% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tenet Healthcare has a beta of 2.09, suggesting that its stock price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500.
95.4% of Tenet Healthcare shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of Surgery Partners shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Tenet Healthcare shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Tenet Healthcare beats Surgery Partners on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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