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Petco Health and Wellness (WOOF) Competitors

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

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), Select Medical (SEM), Brookdale Senior Living (BKD), U.S. Physical Therapy (USPH), Community Health Systems (CYH), HCA Healthcare (HCA), Alcon (ALC), Tenet Healthcare (THC), Universal Health Services (UHS), and Encompass Health (EHC). These companies are all part of the "health care facilities" industry.

Petco Health and Wellness vs.

Petco Health and Wellness (NASDAQ:WOOF) and Acadia Healthcare (NASDAQ:ACHC) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, earnings and analyst recommendations.

Acadia Healthcare has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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
Petco Health and Wellness$6.12B0.17-$1.28B-$0.37-8.86
Acadia Healthcare$3.15B0.78-$21.67M$2.779.53

In the previous week, Acadia Healthcare had 6 more articles in the media than Petco Health and Wellness. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Acadia Healthcare and 5 mentions for Petco Health and Wellness. Petco Health and Wellness' average media sentiment score of 1.42 beat Acadia Healthcare's score of 1.00 indicating that Petco Health and Wellness is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Petco Health and Wellness
3 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Acadia Healthcare
7 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Petco Health and Wellness presently has a consensus target price of $4.11, indicating a potential upside of 25.27%. Acadia Healthcare has a consensus target price of $50.39, indicating a potential upside of 90.94%. Given Acadia Healthcare's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, 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
Petco Health and Wellness
0 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.44
Acadia Healthcare
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67

Acadia Healthcare received 213 more outperform votes than Petco Health and Wellness when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.05% of users gave Acadia Healthcare an outperform vote while only 59.70% of users gave Petco Health and Wellness an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Petco Health and WellnessOutperform Votes
357
59.70%
Underperform Votes
241
40.30%
Acadia HealthcareOutperform Votes
570
66.05%
Underperform Votes
293
33.95%

Acadia Healthcare has a net margin of 8.99% compared to Petco Health and Wellness' net margin of -1.77%. Acadia Healthcare's return on equity of 11.12% beat Petco Health and Wellness' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Petco Health and Wellness-1.77% -5.40% -1.18%
Acadia Healthcare 8.99%11.12%5.77%

Petco Health and Wellness has a beta of 1.74, suggesting that its stock price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Acadia Healthcare has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Acadia Healthcare beats Petco Health and Wellness on 13 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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WOOF vs. The Competition

MetricPetco Health and WellnessRetail stores IndustryRetail SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$1.03B$4.14B$23.21B$7.58B
Dividend YieldN/A3.65%170.23%4.33%
P/E Ratio-8.206.3521.6317.78
Price / Sales0.172.134.0394.51
Price / Cash0.667.8519.4134.64
Price / Book0.852.405.593.99
Net Income-$1.28B$204.42M$781.29M$247.24M
7 Day Performance10.44%7.57%5.94%8.29%
1 Month Performance37.24%-7.80%-4.41%-5.37%
1 Year Performance98.79%-16.58%0.89%-0.24%

Petco Health and Wellness Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
WOOF
Petco Health and Wellness
3.5701 of 5 stars
$3.09
-5.9%
$4.11
+33.2%
+90.7%$970.12M$6.12B-7.7428,500Positive News
Gap Down
ACHC
Acadia Healthcare
4.5372 of 5 stars
$26.42
-3.5%
$52.19
+97.5%
-63.9%$2.45B$3.15B8.6623,500Short Interest ↑
SEM
Select Medical
4.9261 of 5 stars
$15.69
-0.8%
$27.25
+73.7%
-40.8%$2.02B$5.19B9.5153,800Positive News
Gap Down
BKD
Brookdale Senior Living
3.4617 of 5 stars
$5.59
-3.7%
$7.40
+32.3%
-3.7%$1.12B$3.13B-6.2836,000Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
Gap Down
USPH
U.S. Physical Therapy
3.675 of 5 stars
$64.77
-3.5%
$109.00
+68.3%
-31.9%$983.93M$671.35M68.906,140News Coverage
Positive News
CYH
Community Health Systems
4.1747 of 5 stars
$2.40
-2.2%
$4.10
+71.2%
-13.7%$336.24M$12.63B-0.6166,000
HCA
HCA Healthcare
4.7927 of 5 stars
$329.63
-0.6%
$385.67
+17.0%
+5.6%$81.15B$70.60B15.00294,000Analyst Forecast
Positive News
ALC
Alcon
2.885 of 5 stars
$82.86
-1.1%
$105.60
+27.4%
+11.4%$40.87B$9.91B35.4125,200Short Interest ↑
High Trading Volume
THC
Tenet Healthcare
4.9699 of 5 stars
$120.29
0.0%
$166.41
+38.3%
+24.2%$11.44B$20.67B3.73102,400Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Down
UHS
Universal Health Services
4.9871 of 5 stars
$171.83
-1.5%
$228.38
+32.9%
+7.2%$11.17B$15.83B11.4293,800Analyst Forecast
EHC
Encompass Health
4.0526 of 5 stars
$96.75
-1.2%
$107.67
+11.3%
+28.4%$9.74B$5.37B21.6935,000News Coverage
Positive News
High Trading Volume
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