CYH vs. USPH, BKD, WOOF, HCA, ALC, THC, UHS, EHC, ENSG, and ACHC
Should you be buying Community Health Systems stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Community Health Systems include U.S. Physical Therapy (USPH), Brookdale Senior Living (BKD), Petco Health and Wellness (WOOF), HCA Healthcare (HCA), Alcon (ALC), Tenet Healthcare (THC), Universal Health Services (UHS), Encompass Health (EHC), The Ensign Group (ENSG), and Acadia Healthcare (ACHC). These companies are all part of the "health care facilities" industry.
U.S. Physical Therapy (NYSE:USPH) and Community Health Systems (NYSE:CYH) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking and profitability.
In the previous week, U.S. Physical Therapy had 4 more articles in the media than Community Health Systems. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for U.S. Physical Therapy and 5 mentions for Community Health Systems. U.S. Physical Therapy's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Community Health Systems' score of 0.57 indicating that Community Health Systems is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
U.S. Physical Therapy has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Community Health Systems has a beta of 1.55, suggesting that its stock price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Community Health Systems received 298 more outperform votes than U.S. Physical Therapy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.14% of users gave U.S. Physical Therapy an outperform vote while only 53.27% of users gave Community Health Systems an outperform vote.
85.0% of Community Health Systems shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of U.S. Physical Therapy shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 9.9% of Community Health Systems shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
U.S. Physical Therapy has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Community Health Systems. Community Health Systems is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than U.S. Physical Therapy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
U.S. Physical Therapy has a net margin of 4.72% compared to U.S. Physical Therapy's net margin of -0.99%. Community Health Systems' return on equity of 8.03% beat U.S. Physical Therapy's return on equity.
U.S. Physical Therapy presently has a consensus price target of $125.67, suggesting a potential upside of 22.53%. Community Health Systems has a consensus price target of $4.05, suggesting a potential upside of 2.40%. Given Community Health Systems' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe U.S. Physical Therapy is more favorable than Community Health Systems.
Summary
U.S. Physical Therapy beats Community Health Systems on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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