CI vs. ELV, HUM, CNC, GSK, BMY, HCA, GILD, REGN, BSX, and ZTS
Should you be buying The Cigna Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of The Cigna Group include Elevance Health (ELV), Humana (HUM), Centene (CNC), GSK (GSK), Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), HCA Healthcare (HCA), Gilead Sciences (GILD), Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (REGN), Boston Scientific (BSX), and Zoetis (ZTS). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
The Cigna Group (NYSE:CI) and Elevance Health (NYSE:ELV) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, earnings and community ranking.
The Cigna Group pays an annual dividend of $5.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Elevance Health pays an annual dividend of $6.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. The Cigna Group pays out 46.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Elevance Health pays out 24.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Elevance Health has a net margin of 3.64% compared to The Cigna Group's net margin of 1.76%. Elevance Health's return on equity of 20.62% beat The Cigna Group's return on equity.
87.0% of The Cigna Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.2% of Elevance Health shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of The Cigna Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Elevance Health shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
The Cigna Group received 95 more outperform votes than Elevance Health when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.86% of users gave The Cigna Group an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave Elevance Health an outperform vote.
Elevance Health has lower revenue, but higher earnings than The Cigna Group. Elevance Health is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than The Cigna Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, The Cigna Group had 6 more articles in the media than Elevance Health. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for The Cigna Group and 12 mentions for Elevance Health. Elevance Health's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat The Cigna Group's score of 0.85 indicating that Elevance Health is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
The Cigna Group presently has a consensus target price of $366.14, suggesting a potential upside of 9.98%. Elevance Health has a consensus target price of $587.42, suggesting a potential upside of 16.20%. Given Elevance Health's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Elevance Health is more favorable than The Cigna Group.
The Cigna Group has a beta of 0.57, indicating that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Elevance Health has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Elevance Health beats The Cigna Group on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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