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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 large-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment and earnings.

Tenet Healthcare has a beta of 2.05, meaning that its share price is 105% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Encompass Health has a beta of 0.9, meaning that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.

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$20.67B0.57$3.20B$32.233.86
Encompass Health$5.37B1.87$455.70M$4.4622.36

In the previous week, Tenet Healthcare had 19 more articles in the media than Encompass Health. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Tenet Healthcare and 10 mentions for Encompass Health. Tenet Healthcare's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Encompass Health's score of 0.84 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
11 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
10 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Encompass Health
8 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Tenet Healthcare presently has a consensus price target of $163.88, indicating a potential upside of 31.65%. Encompass Health has a consensus price target of $107.67, indicating a potential upside of 7.96%. Given Tenet Healthcare's higher probable upside, 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

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 company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Encompass Health shares are owned by company 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.

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 61.08% of users gave Tenet Healthcare an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Tenet HealthcareOutperform Votes
692
61.08%
Underperform Votes
441
38.92%
Encompass HealthOutperform Votes
511
72.69%
Underperform Votes
192
27.31%

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%

Summary

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

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EHC vs. The Competition

MetricEncompass HealthHospitals IndustryMedical SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$10.05B$4.53B$5.81B$19.98B
Dividend Yield0.69%1.70%4.76%3.90%
P/E Ratio22.3611.0724.9234.16
Price / Sales1.870.98369.1730.29
Price / Cash13.217.7938.0517.60
Price / Book3.602.247.374.70
Net Income$455.70M$212.93M$3.18B$1.02B
7 Day Performance-0.91%-4.44%-2.93%-2.17%
1 Month Performance-1.53%-2.91%-6.84%-3.96%
1 Year Performance33.22%21.53%12.61%8.19%

Encompass Health Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
EHC
Encompass Health
4.4473 of 5 stars
$97.66
-2.1%
$107.67
+10.2%
+34.4%$9.86B$5.37B21.9438,000
THC
Tenet Healthcare
4.9719 of 5 stars
$132.72
+2.4%
$163.19
+23.0%
+32.0%$12.62B$20.67B4.12106,500Analyst Revision
UHS
Universal Health Services
5 of 5 stars
$180.62
+0.3%
$226.14
+25.2%
+2.6%$11.93B$14.28B12.0296,700Earnings Report
Analyst Revision
ENSG
The Ensign Group
4.8604 of 5 stars
$128.83
+2.0%
$165.17
+28.2%
+6.5%$7.40B$4.26B25.2139,300Positive News
ACHC
Acadia Healthcare
4.6535 of 5 stars
$40.77
+2.8%
$70.22
+72.3%
-65.2%$3.79B$3.12B13.3723,500Analyst Forecast
SEM
Select Medical
4.9986 of 5 stars
$18.59
+5.1%
$27.25
+46.6%
-33.9%$2.40B$5.19B11.2454,600
USPH
U.S. Physical Therapy
3.7421 of 5 stars
$85.13
+1.1%
$114.00
+33.9%
-24.2%$1.28B$645.70M90.556,720Earnings Report
Dividend Increase
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
BKD
Brookdale Senior Living
3.8545 of 5 stars
$5.64
+4.4%
$7.50
+33.1%
+1.6%$1.13B$3.13B-6.3236,000
WOOF
Petco Health and Wellness
3.7898 of 5 stars
$2.94
+0.9%
$4.16
+41.7%
-5.0%$919.97M$6.24B-7.3429,000Positive News
CYH
Community Health Systems
3.8855 of 5 stars
$3.70
+5.3%
$4.18
+13.2%
+8.0%$513.31M$12.63B-0.9561,000
HCA
HCA Healthcare
4.8471 of 5 stars
$319.20
+0.9%
$385.67
+20.8%
-0.3%$79.31B$70.60B14.54310,000

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This page (NYSE:EHC) was last updated on 3/4/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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