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Petco Health and Wellness (WOOF) Competitors

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$3.96 +0.03 (+0.76%)
(As of 12/20/2024 05:40 PM ET)

WOOF vs. ACHC, SEM, USPH, BKD, 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), U.S. Physical Therapy (USPH), Brookdale Senior Living (BKD), 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.

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

Acadia Healthcare received 213 more outperform votes than Petco Health and Wellness when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.00% of users gave Acadia Healthcare an outperform vote while only 59.83% of users gave Petco Health and Wellness an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Acadia HealthcareOutperform Votes
563
66.00%
Underperform Votes
290
34.00%
Petco Health and WellnessOutperform Votes
350
59.83%
Underperform Votes
235
40.17%

Acadia Healthcare currently has a consensus target price of $75.44, suggesting a potential upside of 99.06%. Petco Health and Wellness has a consensus target price of $4.25, suggesting a potential upside of 7.32%. Given Acadia Healthcare's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly 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)
3 Hold rating(s)
7 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.70
Petco Health and Wellness
1 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.27

Acadia Healthcare has a beta of 1.29, suggesting that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Petco Health and Wellness has a beta of 1.89, suggesting that its stock price is 89% more volatile than the S&P 500.

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$3.12B1.13-$21.67M$3.0512.43
Petco Health and Wellness$6.24B0.20-$1.28B-$0.40-9.90

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
Acadia Healthcare8.99% 11.12% 5.77%
Petco Health and Wellness -1.77%-5.40%-1.18%

In the previous week, Acadia Healthcare had 16 more articles in the media than Petco Health and Wellness. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Acadia Healthcare and 4 mentions for Petco Health and Wellness. Petco Health and Wellness' average media sentiment score of 1.60 beat Acadia Healthcare's score of 0.24 indicating that Petco Health and Wellness is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

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

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$1.24B$4.51B$24.52B$9.07B
Dividend YieldN/A3.39%167.08%4.22%
P/E Ratio-9.908.41108.5817.19
Price / Sales0.202.903.14116.80
Price / Cash0.988.4921.7837.86
Price / Book1.111.615.424.78
Net Income-$1.28B$203.12M$676.04M$225.60M
7 Day Performance-11.01%-7.35%-2.92%-1.24%
1 Month Performance-4.60%-4.30%0.51%3.36%
1 Year Performance29.84%-12.07%9.02%16.58%

Petco Health and Wellness Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
WOOF
Petco Health and Wellness
1.2329 of 5 stars
$3.96
+0.8%
$4.25
+7.3%
+37.0%$1.24B$6.24B-9.9029,000Analyst Forecast
Positive News
ACHC
Acadia Healthcare
4.5565 of 5 stars
$40.43
-0.6%
$75.44
+86.6%
-49.9%$3.76B$3.12B13.3723,500Analyst Upgrade
Analyst Revision
SEM
Select Medical
4.9647 of 5 stars
$19.83
+1.8%
$45.67
+130.3%
-19.7%$2.57B$6.66B9.1054,600
USPH
U.S. Physical Therapy
3.9754 of 5 stars
$97.70
+4.5%
$114.00
+16.7%
-1.8%$1.48B$604.80M99.436,720Positive News
Gap Up
BKD
Brookdale Senior Living
4.1984 of 5 stars
$5.26
-0.2%
$7.75
+47.3%
-6.7%$1.05B$3.10B-5.7325,200Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
CYH
Community Health Systems
3.5938 of 5 stars
$3.44
-0.9%
$4.77
+38.6%
+2.4%$477.98M$12.55B-1.1561,000
HCA
HCA Healthcare
4.9448 of 5 stars
$312.65
-0.4%
$387.13
+23.8%
+15.3%$79.19B$69.62B14.10310,000Analyst Forecast
ALC
Alcon
3.4525 of 5 stars
$84.30
+0.2%
$102.63
+21.7%
+13.4%$41.58B$9.76B35.9725,000Analyst Forecast
THC
Tenet Healthcare
4.9404 of 5 stars
$135.77
-0.7%
$164.69
+21.3%
+75.8%$12.91B$20.97B4.38106,500Analyst Downgrade
Analyst Revision
UHS
Universal Health Services
4.9971 of 5 stars
$185.38
-1.1%
$223.29
+20.4%
+21.6%$12.23B$14.28B12.4296,700Analyst Forecast
EHC
Encompass Health
4.9086 of 5 stars
$98.74
+0.6%
$107.11
+8.5%
+43.5%$9.95B$5.22B23.7238,000Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:WOOF) was last updated on 12/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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