ARDT vs. PACS, OPCH, SHC, SGRY, CON, HIMS, GH, LFST, ADUS, and PRVA
Should you be buying Ardent Health Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ardent Health Partners include PACS Group (PACS), Option Care Health (OPCH), Sotera Health (SHC), Surgery Partners (SGRY), Concentra Group Holdings Parent (CON), Hims & Hers Health (HIMS), Guardant Health (GH), LifeStance Health Group (LFST), Addus HomeCare (ADUS), and Privia Health Group (PRVA). These companies are all part of the "healthcare" industry.
Ardent Health Partners (NYSE:ARDT) and PACS Group (NYSE:PACS) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings and profitability.
Ardent Health Partners currently has a consensus target price of $21.70, suggesting a potential upside of 13.08%. PACS Group has a consensus target price of $37.00, suggesting a potential downside of 0.27%. Given Ardent Health Partners' higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Ardent Health Partners is more favorable than PACS Group.
PACS Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Ardent Health Partners.
PACS Group received 6 more outperform votes than Ardent Health Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 100.00% of users gave PACS Group an outperform vote while only 90.91% of users gave Ardent Health Partners an outperform vote.
In the previous week, PACS Group had 13 more articles in the media than Ardent Health Partners. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for PACS Group and 2 mentions for Ardent Health Partners. Ardent Health Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat PACS Group's score of 0.15 indicating that Ardent Health Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Ardent Health Partners beats PACS Group on 5 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.
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