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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Summary
Tenet Healthcare beats Encompass Health on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:EHC) was last updated on 3/11/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
