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$39.18 -1.87 (-4.56%)
Closing price 02/21/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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VCYT vs. GH, OPCH, RDNT, BTSG, SHC, SGRY, LFST, PRVA, CON, and TDOC

Should you be buying Veracyte stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Veracyte include Guardant Health (GH), Option Care Health (OPCH), RadNet (RDNT), BrightSpring Health Services (BTSG), Sotera Health (SHC), Surgery Partners (SGRY), LifeStance Health Group (LFST), Privia Health Group (PRVA), Concentra Group Holdings Parent (CON), and Teladoc Health (TDOC). These companies are all part of the "healthcare" industry.

Veracyte vs.

Guardant Health (NASDAQ:GH) and Veracyte (NASDAQ:VCYT) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations and dividends.

Guardant Health presently has a consensus target price of $44.78, indicating a potential upside of 4.45%. Veracyte has a consensus target price of $42.00, indicating a potential upside of 7.20%. Given Veracyte's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Veracyte is more favorable than Guardant Health.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Guardant Health
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
18 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Veracyte
1 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
7 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67

92.6% of Guardant Health shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.5% of Guardant Health shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Veracyte shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Veracyte has a net margin of -2.18% compared to Guardant Health's net margin of -74.02%. Veracyte's return on equity of 3.02% beat Guardant Health's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Guardant Health-74.02% -1,200.44% -29.88%
Veracyte -2.18%3.02%2.80%

Veracyte received 156 more outperform votes than Guardant Health when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.91% of users gave Veracyte an outperform vote while only 70.59% of users gave Guardant Health an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Guardant HealthOutperform Votes
288
70.59%
Underperform Votes
120
29.41%
VeracyteOutperform Votes
444
72.91%
Underperform Votes
165
27.09%

Guardant Health has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Veracyte has a beta of 1.71, meaning that its stock price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Guardant Health had 11 more articles in the media than Veracyte. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Guardant Health and 10 mentions for Veracyte. Veracyte's average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Guardant Health's score of 0.54 indicating that Veracyte is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Guardant Health
6 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
2 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Veracyte
3 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Guardant Health$563.95M9.39-$479.45M-$4.24-10.11
Veracyte$361.05M8.41-$74.40M-$0.15-261.20

Summary

Veracyte beats Guardant Health on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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VCYT vs. The Competition

MetricVeracyteMedical laboratories IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$3.04B$3.11B$5.77B$8.98B
Dividend YieldN/A20.51%4.78%3.85%
P/E Ratio-261.2015.6226.4618.82
Price / Sales8.41173.06453.2580.30
Price / Cash453.71387.2444.0437.47
Price / Book2.744.847.634.64
Net Income-$74.40M-$22.21M$3.18B$245.69M
7 Day Performance-4.69%-4.33%-1.91%-2.66%
1 Month Performance-8.99%-2.39%-0.19%-2.15%
1 Year Performance60.97%13.74%16.70%12.90%

Veracyte Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
VCYT
Veracyte
2.9157 of 5 stars
$39.18
-4.6%
$42.00
+7.2%
+59.7%$3.18B$361.05M-261.20790Analyst Downgrade
News Coverage
GH
Guardant Health
4.2446 of 5 stars
$48.12
+2.4%
$42.63
-11.4%
+89.2%$5.95B$563.95M-11.351,779Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
Gap Up
OPCH
Option Care Health
4.0316 of 5 stars
$31.46
-1.1%
$32.25
+2.5%
-4.1%$5.35B$4.30B26.447,802Positive News
RDNT
RadNet
3.9109 of 5 stars
$61.33
-1.9%
$75.50
+23.1%
+54.4%$4.54B$1.62B-876.0210,288
BTSG
BrightSpring Health Services
1.7615 of 5 stars
$22.05
-0.1%
$19.42
-11.9%
+93.7%$3.84B$10.59B-84.8135,000
SHC
Sotera Health
2.1625 of 5 stars
$13.48
+0.4%
$16.08
+19.3%
-17.6%$3.82B$1.05B53.923,000Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
Negative News
SGRY
Surgery Partners
3.0848 of 5 stars
$25.87
+0.3%
$36.56
+41.3%
-23.0%$3.29B$2.74B-53.9013,500
LFST
LifeStance Health Group
1.5331 of 5 stars
$7.97
-0.3%
$8.70
+9.2%
+22.0%$3.05B$1.21B-30.659,325Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
Positive News
PRVA
Privia Health Group
3.2393 of 5 stars
$25.24
+1.5%
$24.94
-1.2%
+20.0%$3.03B$1.72B252.431,102News Coverage
CON
Concentra Group Holdings Parent
N/A$22.69
-0.6%
$28.63
+26.1%
N/A$2.89B$1.84B0.0011,000Positive News
TDOC
Teladoc Health
2.0385 of 5 stars
$14.36
+6.3%
$12.08
-15.9%
-26.4%$2.47B$2.60B-2.495,600Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
Gap Down
High Trading Volume

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This page (NASDAQ:VCYT) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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