NHC vs. OPCH, GH, RDNT, SHC, SGRY, PRVA, BTSG, CON, LFST, and WGS
Should you be buying National HealthCare stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of National HealthCare include Option Care Health (OPCH), Guardant Health (GH), RadNet (RDNT), Sotera Health (SHC), Surgery Partners (SGRY), Privia Health Group (PRVA), BrightSpring Health Services (BTSG), Concentra Group Holdings Parent (CON), LifeStance Health Group (LFST), and GeneDx (WGS). These companies are all part of the "healthcare" industry.
National HealthCare vs.
National HealthCare (NYSE:NHC) and Option Care Health (NASDAQ:OPCH) are both medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, community ranking, earnings, valuation and media sentiment.
In the previous week, Option Care Health had 11 more articles in the media than National HealthCare. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Option Care Health and 2 mentions for National HealthCare. Option Care Health's average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat National HealthCare's score of -0.59 indicating that Option Care Health is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
56.4% of National HealthCare shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.1% of Option Care Health shares are held by institutional investors. 13.8% of National HealthCare shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Option Care Health 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.
Option Care Health has a consensus price target of $33.00, suggesting a potential upside of 2.36%. Given Option Care Health's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Option Care Health is more favorable than National HealthCare.
National HealthCare has a beta of 0.41, indicating that its stock price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Option Care Health has a beta of 1.33, indicating that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Option Care Health has higher revenue and earnings than National HealthCare. National HealthCare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Option Care Health, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
National HealthCare has a net margin of 10.03% compared to Option Care Health's net margin of 4.37%. Option Care Health's return on equity of 15.30% beat National HealthCare's return on equity.
Option Care Health received 57 more outperform votes than National HealthCare when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave National HealthCare an outperform vote while only 62.50% of users gave Option Care Health an outperform vote.
Summary
Option Care Health beats National HealthCare on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:NHC) was last updated on 3/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
