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EHC vs. THC, UHS, ENSG, ACHC, SEM, USPH, BKD, WOOF, CYH, and HCA

Should you be buying Encompass Health stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Encompass Health include Tenet Healthcare (THC), Universal Health Services (UHS), The Ensign Group (ENSG), Acadia Healthcare (ACHC), Select Medical (SEM), U.S. Physical Therapy (USPH), Brookdale Senior Living (BKD), Petco Health and Wellness (WOOF), Community Health Systems (CYH), and HCA Healthcare (HCA). These companies are all part of the "health care facilities" industry.

Encompass Health vs.

Tenet Healthcare (NYSE:THC) and Encompass Health (NYSE:EHC) are both medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.

Tenet Healthcare has a net margin of 15.48% compared to Encompass Health's net margin of 8.48%. Tenet Healthcare's return on equity of 21.88% beat Encompass Health's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Tenet Healthcare15.48% 21.88% 3.99%
Encompass Health 8.48%17.56%7.06%

95.4% of Tenet Healthcare shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.3% of Encompass Health shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Tenet Healthcare shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Encompass Health shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Tenet Healthcare currently has a consensus target price of $163.88, indicating a potential upside of 29.85%. Encompass Health has a consensus target price of $107.67, indicating a potential upside of 8.47%. Given Tenet Healthcare's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Tenet Healthcare is more favorable than Encompass Health.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Tenet Healthcare
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
14 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.89
Encompass Health
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
9 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.18

In the previous week, Tenet Healthcare had 9 more articles in the media than Encompass Health. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Tenet Healthcare and 7 mentions for Encompass Health. Encompass Health's average media sentiment score of 1.73 beat Tenet Healthcare's score of 1.19 indicating that Encompass Health is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Tenet Healthcare
11 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Encompass Health
7 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

Tenet Healthcare has higher revenue and earnings than Encompass Health. Tenet Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Encompass Health, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Tenet Healthcare$20.67B0.58$3.20B$32.233.92
Encompass Health$5.37B1.86$455.70M$4.4622.25

Tenet Healthcare has a beta of 2.06, meaning that its stock price is 106% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Encompass Health has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Tenet Healthcare received 181 more outperform votes than Encompass Health when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.69% of users gave Encompass Health an outperform vote while only 61.02% of users gave Tenet Healthcare an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Tenet HealthcareOutperform Votes
692
61.02%
Underperform Votes
442
38.98%
Encompass HealthOutperform Votes
511
72.69%
Underperform Votes
192
27.31%

Summary

Tenet Healthcare beats Encompass Health on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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EHC vs. The Competition

MetricEncompass HealthHospitals IndustryMedical SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$10.00B$4.50B$5.72B$19.30B
Dividend Yield0.68%1.05%4.89%3.78%
P/E Ratio22.2510.9624.9032.69
Price / Sales1.860.97401.4526.80
Price / Cash13.217.7938.0517.56
Price / Book3.582.227.274.54
Net Income$455.70M$212.93M$3.19B$1.02B
7 Day Performance0.72%-0.20%-0.20%-1.26%
1 Month Performance-0.11%-3.36%-5.99%-5.98%
1 Year Performance30.98%17.00%11.72%3.92%

Encompass Health Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
EHC
Encompass Health
4.3618 of 5 stars
$99.26
+0.0%
$107.67
+8.5%
+29.8%$10.00B$5.37B22.2538,000Positive News
THC
Tenet Healthcare
4.9597 of 5 stars
$124.20
-1.9%
$163.88
+32.0%
+27.9%$11.81B$20.67B3.85106,500Positive News
UHS
Universal Health Services
5 of 5 stars
$175.63
+0.3%
$228.77
+30.3%
-0.8%$11.60B$15.83B11.6996,700Analyst Forecast
ENSG
The Ensign Group
4.7875 of 5 stars
$129.88
+0.6%
$165.17
+27.2%
+5.3%$7.45B$4.26B25.3839,300
ACHC
Acadia Healthcare
4.6168 of 5 stars
$29.40
-2.0%
$56.31
+91.6%
-63.5%$2.73B$3.12B9.6523,500High Trading Volume
SEM
Select Medical
4.9956 of 5 stars
$17.91
-1.2%
$27.25
+52.1%
-38.1%$2.31B$5.19B10.8654,600Analyst Revision
Positive News
USPH
U.S. Physical Therapy
3.9173 of 5 stars
$79.78
-1.5%
$111.50
+39.8%
-23.9%$1.21B$645.70M84.926,720Insider Trade
BKD
Brookdale Senior Living
3.5756 of 5 stars
$5.65
-0.9%
$7.50
+32.8%
-8.9%$1.13B$3.13B-6.3436,000
WOOF
Petco Health and Wellness
3.5985 of 5 stars
$2.47
-8.1%
$4.16
+68.2%
-2.6%$778.61M$6.24B-6.2129,000Positive News
CYH
Community Health Systems
3.8933 of 5 stars
$3.10
+2.8%
$4.18
+35.2%
-5.4%$429.97M$12.63B-0.7961,000Analyst Forecast
HCA
HCA Healthcare
4.8527 of 5 stars
$311.61
+1.7%
$385.67
+23.8%
+3.5%$77.34B$70.60B14.18310,000
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This page (NYSE:EHC) was last updated on 3/11/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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