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Encompass Health (EHC) Competitors

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$98.90 -0.20 (-0.20%)
(As of 11/20/2024 ET)

EHC vs. THC, UHS, ENSG, SEM, ACHC, USPH, WOOF, BKD, 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), Select Medical (SEM), Acadia Healthcare (ACHC), U.S. Physical Therapy (USPH), Petco Health and Wellness (WOOF), Brookdale Senior Living (BKD), 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 superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, institutional ownership and community ranking.

Tenet Healthcare has a net margin of 14.91% compared to Encompass Health's net margin of 8.10%. Tenet Healthcare's return on equity of 24.05% beat Encompass Health's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Tenet Healthcare14.91% 24.05% 3.85%
Encompass Health 8.10%17.60%6.83%

Tenet Healthcare received 177 more outperform votes than Encompass Health when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.60% of users gave Encompass Health an outperform vote while only 60.93% of users gave Tenet Healthcare an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Tenet HealthcareOutperform Votes
683
60.93%
Underperform Votes
438
39.07%
Encompass HealthOutperform Votes
506
72.60%
Underperform Votes
191
27.40%

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$20.97B0.69$611M$31.214.87
Encompass Health$5.22B1.91$352M$4.1423.89

Tenet Healthcare has a beta of 2.15, suggesting that its stock price is 115% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Encompass Health has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Encompass Health had 1 more articles in the media than Tenet Healthcare. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Encompass Health and 15 mentions for Tenet Healthcare. Tenet Healthcare's average media sentiment score of 1.41 beat Encompass Health's score of 0.67 indicating that Tenet Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the media.

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

Tenet Healthcare currently has a consensus target price of $170.38, suggesting a potential upside of 12.18%. Encompass Health has a consensus target price of $107.11, suggesting a potential upside of 8.30%. Given Tenet Healthcare's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly 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)
1 Hold rating(s)
13 Buy rating(s)
3 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.12
Encompass Health
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
9 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.18

95.4% of Tenet Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.3% of Encompass Health shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Tenet Healthcare shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Encompass Health shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Tenet Healthcare beats Encompass Health on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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EHC vs. The Competition

MetricEncompass HealthHospitals IndustryMedical SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$9.96B$5.38B$5.06B$19.87B
Dividend Yield0.67%1.01%5.18%3.53%
P/E Ratio23.8913.73126.3242.94
Price / Sales1.911.081,179.2518.99
Price / Cash15.1811.5133.8617.86
Price / Book4.403.004.685.52
Net Income$352M$178.36M$119.54M$986.45M
7 Day Performance-2.26%-0.56%-1.83%0.45%
1 Month Performance3.29%10.74%-3.60%1.05%
1 Year Performance51.06%60.59%31.91%24.67%

Encompass Health Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
EHC
Encompass Health
4.897 of 5 stars
$98.90
-0.2%
$107.11
+8.3%
+52.3%$9.96B$5.22B23.8938,000Analyst Revision
THC
Tenet Healthcare
4.9273 of 5 stars
$151.88
-1.0%
$170.38
+12.2%
+133.9%$14.58B$20.55B4.87106,500Positive News
UHS
Universal Health Services
4.9935 of 5 stars
$197.44
+0.3%
$231.14
+17.1%
+45.2%$12.98B$14.28B13.1396,700Dividend Announcement
Analyst Revision
Positive News
ENSG
The Ensign Group
4.9453 of 5 stars
$144.66
+0.1%
$162.20
+12.1%
+34.1%$8.28B$4.11B35.0335,300Positive News
SEM
Select Medical
4.2349 of 5 stars
$38.09
+2.9%
$40.75
+7.0%
+63.0%$4.79B$6.66B17.8054,600Analyst Downgrade
Analyst Revision
ACHC
Acadia Healthcare
4.2421 of 5 stars
$39.10
+5.4%
$83.33
+113.1%
-46.2%$3.63B$2.93B12.8223,500Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
USPH
U.S. Physical Therapy
2.6872 of 5 stars
$94.17
+3.9%
$105.00
+11.5%
+9.4%$1.37B$604.80M100.186,720
WOOF
Petco Health and Wellness
1.6966 of 5 stars
$3.97
-2.2%
$3.49
-12.1%
-0.5%$1.27B$6.26B0.0029,000
BKD
Brookdale Senior Living
3.9627 of 5 stars
$5.22
+0.4%
$7.75
+48.5%
-5.8%$1.04B$3.10B-5.6725,200Short Interest ↓
CYH
Community Health Systems
3.7453 of 5 stars
$3.83
+0.5%
$5.18
+35.3%
+34.2%$532.18M$12.49B-1.2761,000
HCA
HCA Healthcare
4.9712 of 5 stars
$333.00
-0.6%
$385.00
+15.6%
+34.1%$84.35B$64.97B14.95310,000

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This page (NYSE:EHC) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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