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Encompass Health (EHC) Competitors

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$94.45 +0.62 (+0.66%)
(As of 12/20/2024 05:31 PM ET)

EHC vs. THC, UHS, ENSG, ACHC, SEM, 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), Acadia Healthcare (ACHC), Select Medical (SEM), 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 companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking and profitability.

Tenet Healthcare has a beta of 2.06, suggesting that its share price is 106% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Encompass Health has a beta of 0.86, suggesting that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.

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

In the previous week, Tenet Healthcare had 15 more articles in the media than Encompass Health. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Tenet Healthcare and 8 mentions for Encompass Health. Encompass Health's average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat Tenet Healthcare's score of 0.52 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)
2 Neutral mention(s)
6 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Encompass Health
6 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Tenet Healthcare received 180 more outperform votes than Encompass Health when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.60% of users gave Encompass Health an outperform vote while only 60.92% of users gave Tenet Healthcare an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Tenet HealthcareOutperform Votes
686
60.92%
Underperform Votes
440
39.08%
Encompass HealthOutperform Votes
506
72.60%
Underperform Votes
191
27.40%

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 currently has a consensus target price of $166.88, indicating a potential upside of 28.90%. Encompass Health has a consensus target price of $107.11, indicating a potential upside of 13.41%. 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)
3 Hold rating(s)
12 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.94
Encompass Health
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
9 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.18

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$20.55B0.60$611M$31.214.15
Encompass Health$5.22B1.82$352M$4.1422.81

Summary

Tenet Healthcare beats Encompass Health on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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EHC vs. The Competition

MetricEncompass HealthHospitals IndustryMedical SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$9.52B$4.40B$5.01B$19.19B
Dividend Yield0.69%1.62%4.87%3.58%
P/E Ratio22.8110.57135.0741.22
Price / Sales1.820.931,120.6317.58
Price / Cash15.609.9840.5821.28
Price / Book4.202.394.755.32
Net Income$352M$178.36M$118.50M$989.67M
7 Day Performance-3.81%-1.94%-1.85%-3.45%
1 Month Performance-4.58%-20.01%11.28%-3.73%
1 Year Performance42.07%23.64%29.92%12.06%

Encompass Health Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
EHC
Encompass Health
4.9086 of 5 stars
$94.45
+0.7%
$107.11
+13.4%
+43.5%$9.52B$5.22B22.8138,000Positive News
High Trading Volume
THC
Tenet Healthcare
4.9402 of 5 stars
$136.30
-0.3%
$164.69
+20.8%
+75.8%$12.96B$20.97B4.38106,500Analyst Downgrade
Analyst Revision
UHS
Universal Health Services
4.9963 of 5 stars
$186.96
-0.2%
$223.29
+19.4%
+21.6%$12.33B$14.28B12.4296,700Analyst Forecast
ENSG
The Ensign Group
4.9794 of 5 stars
$143.02
+0.4%
$164.33
+14.9%
+21.9%$8.19B$4.11B34.4835,300Dividend Increase
Positive News
ACHC
Acadia Healthcare
4.5565 of 5 stars
$40.58
-0.2%
$75.44
+85.9%
-49.9%$3.77B$3.12B13.3723,500Analyst Upgrade
Analyst Revision
SEM
Select Medical
4.9683 of 5 stars
$19.80
+1.6%
$45.67
+130.6%
-19.7%$2.56B$6.66B9.1054,600Positive News
USPH
U.S. Physical Therapy
3.9754 of 5 stars
$97.96
+4.8%
$114.00
+16.4%
-1.8%$1.48B$604.80M99.436,720Positive News
Gap Up
WOOF
Petco Health and Wellness
1.2332 of 5 stars
$4.36
-2.0%
$4.16
-4.7%
+37.0%$1.37B$6.24B-11.1329,000Analyst Forecast
Positive News
BKD
Brookdale Senior Living
4.2053 of 5 stars
$5.26
-0.2%
$7.75
+47.3%
-6.7%$1.05B$3.10B-5.7325,200Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
CYH
Community Health Systems
3.6001 of 5 stars
$3.44
-0.9%
$4.77
+38.6%
+2.4%$477.98M$12.55B-1.1561,000
HCA
HCA Healthcare
4.9469 of 5 stars
$313.44
-0.2%
$387.13
+23.5%
+15.3%$79.39B$69.62B14.10310,000Analyst Forecast

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This page (NYSE:EHC) was last updated on 12/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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