McKesson (MCK) Competitors

Cencora (NYSE:COR) and McKesson (NYSE:MCK) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in COR or MCK?

McKesson received 226 more outperform votes than Cencora when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.27% of users gave McKesson an outperform vote while only 65.30% of users gave Cencora an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Cencora	Outperform Votes 747 65.30%	Underperform Votes 397 34.70%
McKesson	Outperform Votes 973 74.27%	Underperform Votes 337 25.73%

Do analysts recommend COR or MCK?

Cencora currently has a consensus price target of $280.20, suggesting a potential upside of 4.43%. McKesson has a consensus price target of $649.36, suggesting a potential downside of 2.01%. Given Cencora's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Cencora is more favorable than McKesson.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Cencora	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	8 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.80
McKesson	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	12 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.93

Is COR or MCK more profitable?

McKesson has a net margin of 0.82% compared to Cencora's net margin of 0.46%. Cencora's return on equity of 328.62% beat McKesson's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Cencora	0.46%	328.62%	4.23%
McKesson	0.82%	-181.26%	5.34%

Do insiders & institutionals believe in COR or MCK?

97.5% of Cencora shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.1% of McKesson shares are held by institutional investors. 10.8% of Cencora shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of McKesson shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is COR or MCK a better dividend stock?

Cencora pays an annual dividend of $2.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. McKesson pays an annual dividend of $2.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Cencora pays out 31.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. McKesson pays out 13.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Cencora has increased its dividend for 15 consecutive years and McKesson has increased its dividend for 17 consecutive years.

Which has higher earnings and valuation, COR or MCK?

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

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Cencora	$638.56M	81.48	$1.51B	$7.03	38.17
McKesson	$344.58B	0.24	$3.00B	$21.84	30.34

Which has more volatility & risk, COR or MCK?

Cencora has a beta of 0.51, suggesting that its share price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, McKesson has a beta of 0.52, suggesting that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media favor COR or MCK?

In the previous week, McKesson had 5 more articles in the media than Cencora. MarketBeat recorded 39 mentions for McKesson and 34 mentions for Cencora. Cencora's average media sentiment score of 1.55 beat McKesson's score of 1.49 indicating that Cencora is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Cencora	30 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive
McKesson	36 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

McKesson beats Cencora on 14 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.