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Petco Health and Wellness (WOOF) Competitors

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WOOF vs. ACHC, BKD, SEM, USPH, CYH, HCA, ALC, THC, EHC, and UHS

Should you be buying Petco Health and Wellness stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Petco Health and Wellness include Acadia Healthcare (ACHC), Brookdale Senior Living (BKD), Select Medical (SEM), U.S. Physical Therapy (USPH), Community Health Systems (CYH), HCA Healthcare (HCA), Alcon (ALC), Tenet Healthcare (THC), Encompass Health (EHC), and Universal Health Services (UHS). These companies are all part of the "health care facilities" industry.

Petco Health and Wellness vs. Its Competitors

Acadia Healthcare (NASDAQ:ACHC) and Petco Health and Wellness (NASDAQ:WOOF) are both small-cap health care facilities companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.

Acadia Healthcare currently has a consensus price target of $40.77, indicating a potential upside of 90.70%. Petco Health and Wellness has a consensus price target of $3.75, indicating a potential upside of 7.22%. Given Acadia Healthcare's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Acadia Healthcare is more favorable than Petco Health and Wellness.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Acadia Healthcare
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
9 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.69
Petco Health and Wellness
0 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.38

Acadia Healthcare has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Petco Health and Wellness has a beta of 1.72, meaning that its share price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Acadia Healthcare has a net margin of 4.31% compared to Petco Health and Wellness' net margin of -1.10%. Acadia Healthcare's return on equity of 8.34% beat Petco Health and Wellness' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Acadia Healthcare4.31% 8.34% 4.20%
Petco Health and Wellness -1.10%-4.29%-0.92%

In the previous week, Petco Health and Wellness had 13 more articles in the media than Acadia Healthcare. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Petco Health and Wellness and 19 mentions for Acadia Healthcare. Acadia Healthcare's average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat Petco Health and Wellness' score of 0.36 indicating that Acadia Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Acadia Healthcare
3 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
6 Neutral mention(s)
4 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Petco Health and Wellness
5 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
24 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Acadia Healthcare$3.15B0.63$255.61M$1.5114.16
Petco Health and Wellness$6.08B0.18-$101.82M-$0.24-14.56

Summary

Acadia Healthcare beats Petco Health and Wellness on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding WOOF and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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WOOF vs. The Competition

MetricPetco Health and WellnessRETAIL IndustryRetail SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$1.10B$12.31B$27.23B$9.77B
Dividend YieldN/A2.19%172.72%4.10%
P/E Ratio-14.5217.3426.5925.26
Price / Sales0.181.9015.0288.28
Price / Cash7.3411.8817.5328.45
Price / Book0.994.365.206.00
Net Income-$101.82M$608.12M$872.40M$265.34M
7 Day Performance9.22%6.01%2.82%2.84%
1 Month Performance5.91%10.74%0.71%1.58%
1 Year Performance28.97%16.24%19.16%25.40%

Petco Health and Wellness Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
WOOF
Petco Health and Wellness
2.0705 of 5 stars
$3.50
+4.6%
$3.75
+7.2%
+23.2%$1.10B$6.08B-14.5229,000
ACHC
Acadia Healthcare
4.7176 of 5 stars
$18.61
+2.2%
$44.75
+140.5%
-71.8%$1.72B$3.15B12.3525,500
BKD
Brookdale Senior Living
3.0614 of 5 stars
$7.18
+0.6%
$7.80
+8.7%
+5.6%$1.68B$3.19B-6.8336,000
SEM
Select Medical
4.995 of 5 stars
$11.81
-0.8%
$24.60
+108.4%
-61.5%$1.46B$5.28B11.1344,100Analyst Revision
USPH
U.S. Physical Therapy
3.4388 of 5 stars
$83.45
-0.4%
$110.25
+32.1%
+1.8%$1.27B$671.34M36.447,028Short Interest ↑
CYH
Community Health Systems
4.2311 of 5 stars
$2.51
+1.0%
$3.74
+49.4%
-45.5%$351.00M$12.63B-1.6860,000Gap Down
HCA
HCA Healthcare
4.7027 of 5 stars
$378.41
+1.4%
$395.69
+4.6%
+5.9%$88.54B$72.70B15.91316,000Positive News
ALC
Alcon
2.6841 of 5 stars
$85.57
+0.1%
$104.63
+22.3%
-7.2%$42.23B$9.93B38.0525,599Upcoming Earnings
Options Volume
THC
Tenet Healthcare
4.9283 of 5 stars
$164.83
+0.9%
$191.56
+16.2%
+9.8%$14.56B$20.67B10.5598,000Positive News
EHC
Encompass Health
4.878 of 5 stars
$116.72
+0.2%
$133.17
+14.1%
+35.8%$11.77B$5.37B22.8440,000
UHS
Universal Health Services
4.9823 of 5 stars
$169.67
+0.4%
$216.54
+27.6%
-21.3%$11.03B$15.83B8.9399,000

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This page (NASDAQ:WOOF) was last updated on 8/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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