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$0.83 +0.04 (+4.53%)
(As of 12:00 PM ET)

SSY vs. HCA, THC, UHS, SGRY, ARDT, CYH, MIRA, NRXS, CCM, and BNGO

Should you be buying SunLink Health Systems stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SunLink Health Systems include HCA Healthcare (HCA), Tenet Healthcare (THC), Universal Health Services (UHS), Surgery Partners (SGRY), Ardent Health Partners (ARDT), Community Health Systems (CYH), MIRA Pharmaceuticals (MIRA), NeurAxis (NRXS), Concord Medical Services (CCM), and Bionano Genomics (BNGO). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.

SunLink Health Systems vs.

SunLink Health Systems (NYSE:SSY) and HCA Healthcare (NYSE:HCA) are both medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.

HCA Healthcare has higher revenue and earnings than SunLink Health Systems. SunLink Health Systems is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HCA Healthcare, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
SunLink Health Systems$32.44M0.18-$1.53M-$0.11-7.58
HCA Healthcare$64.97B1.30$5.24B$22.2714.94

23.7% of SunLink Health Systems shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.7% of HCA Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. 27.9% of SunLink Health Systems shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of HCA Healthcare shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

HCA Healthcare has a consensus target price of $385.00, suggesting a potential upside of 15.75%. Given HCA Healthcare's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe HCA Healthcare is more favorable than SunLink Health Systems.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
SunLink Health Systems
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
HCA Healthcare
0 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
12 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.84

SunLink Health Systems has a beta of 1.39, meaning that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HCA Healthcare has a beta of 1.68, meaning that its stock price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, HCA Healthcare had 28 more articles in the media than SunLink Health Systems. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for HCA Healthcare and 2 mentions for SunLink Health Systems. HCA Healthcare's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat SunLink Health Systems' score of -0.24 indicating that HCA Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
SunLink Health Systems
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
HCA Healthcare
18 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
2 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

HCA Healthcare received 1226 more outperform votes than SunLink Health Systems when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.50% of users gave HCA Healthcare an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave SunLink Health Systems an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
SunLink Health SystemsOutperform Votes
No Votes
Underperform Votes
73
100.00%
HCA HealthcareOutperform Votes
1226
77.50%
Underperform Votes
356
22.50%

HCA Healthcare has a net margin of 8.52% compared to SunLink Health Systems' net margin of -2.30%. HCA Healthcare's return on equity of 520.98% beat SunLink Health Systems' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
SunLink Health Systems-2.30% -16.60% -12.37%
HCA Healthcare 8.52%520.98%10.09%

Summary

HCA Healthcare beats SunLink Health Systems on 18 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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SSY vs. The Competition

MetricSunLink Health SystemsGeneral medical & surgical hospitals IndustryMedical SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$5.87M$13.04B$4.95B$19.77B
Dividend YieldN/A0.59%7.63%3.54%
P/E Ratio-7.584.1575.1235.89
Price / Sales0.180.691,406.7918.42
Price / CashN/A9.0633.0017.94
Price / Book0.3718.484.605.61
Net Income-$1.53M$809.93M$117.23M$983.53M
7 Day Performance2.99%-7.09%-3.37%-1.27%
1 Month Performance5.46%-15.80%-4.50%-0.16%
1 Year Performance11.20%32.69%29.38%23.60%

SunLink Health Systems Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SSY
SunLink Health Systems
N/A$0.83
+4.5%
N/A+7.1%$5.84M$32.44M-7.55N/AAnalyst Forecast
News Coverage
Gap Up
HCA
HCA Healthcare
4.9753 of 5 stars
$345.36
-1.1%
N/A+36.3%$87.48B$64.97B15.51310,000Short Interest ↓
THC
Tenet Healthcare
4.9349 of 5 stars
$162.64
-0.2%
N/A+140.7%$15.47B$20.55B5.21106,500Positive News
UHS
Universal Health Services
4.9938 of 5 stars
$200.99
-0.9%
N/A+45.6%$13.41B$14.28B13.3696,700Positive News
SGRY
Surgery Partners
3.1193 of 5 stars
$24.77
-2.9%
N/A-32.3%$3.15B$2.89B-51.6013,500Earnings Report
High Trading Volume
ARDT
Ardent Health Partners
N/A$17.81
+4.8%
N/AN/A$2.54B$5.41B0.0024,200Gap Up
CYH
Community Health Systems
3.6188 of 5 stars
$4.00
-1.0%
N/A+32.1%$555.10M$12.55B-1.3261,000Gap Up
MIRA
MIRA Pharmaceuticals
2.527 of 5 stars
$1.50
-3.8%
N/A-57.5%$22.17MN/A-2.682Earnings Report
Positive News
Gap Up
NRXS
NeurAxis
N/A$3.23
+2.2%
N/A+30.8%$22.09M$2.46M-1.7619High Trading Volume
CCM
Concord Medical Services
0.376 of 5 stars
$5.08
-6.8%
N/A-56.6%$22.04M$75.69M0.00970Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
Gap Up
BNGO
Bionano Genomics
1.7124 of 5 stars
$0.26
-7.2%
N/A-83.1%$22.01M$36.58M-0.05300Gap Down
High Trading Volume

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This page (NYSE:SSY) was last updated on 11/19/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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