agilon health (AGL) Competitors

Option Care Health (NASDAQ:OPCH) and agilon health (NYSE:AGL) are both medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Is OPCH or AGL more profitable?

Option Care Health has a net margin of 4.37% compared to agilon health's net margin of -6.88%. Option Care Health's return on equity of 15.30% beat agilon health's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Option Care Health	4.37%	15.30%	6.57%
agilon health	-6.88%	-47.84%	-14.97%

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, OPCH or AGL?

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

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Option Care Health	$5.00B	1.15	$267.09M	$1.22	27.78
agilon health	$6.06B	0.21	-$262.60M	-$0.63	-4.91

Do insiders & institutionals believe in OPCH or AGL?

98.1% of Option Care Health shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Option Care Health shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of agilon health shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Which has more volatility & risk, OPCH or AGL?

Option Care Health has a beta of 1.35, meaning that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, agilon health has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do analysts recommend OPCH or AGL?

Option Care Health presently has a consensus price target of $32.88, suggesting a potential downside of 2.99%. agilon health has a consensus price target of $3.95, suggesting a potential upside of 27.75%. Given agilon health's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe agilon health is more favorable than Option Care Health.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Option Care Health	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	6 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.75
agilon health	2 Sell rating(s)	13 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Does the media favor OPCH or AGL?

In the previous week, agilon health had 12 more articles in the media than Option Care Health. MarketBeat recorded 39 mentions for agilon health and 27 mentions for Option Care Health. Option Care Health's average media sentiment score of 1.52 beat agilon health's score of -0.11 indicating that Option Care Health is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Option Care Health	17 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive
agilon health	6 Very Positive mention(s)	5 Positive mention(s)	8 Neutral mention(s)	2 Negative mention(s)	2 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer OPCH or AGL?

Option Care Health received 6 more outperform votes than agilon health when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.11% of users gave Option Care Health an outperform vote while only 44.92% of users gave agilon health an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Option Care Health	Outperform Votes 59 62.11%	Underperform Votes 36 37.89%
agilon health	Outperform Votes 53 44.92%	Underperform Votes 65 55.08%

Summary

Option Care Health beats agilon health on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.