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Tenet Healthcare (THC) Competitors

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$172.82 -4.92 (-2.77%)
As of 07/15/2025 03:59 PM Eastern

THC vs. ALC, EHC, UHS, ENSG, ACHC, SEM, BKD, USPH, WOOF, and CYH

Should you be buying Tenet Healthcare stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tenet Healthcare include Alcon (ALC), Encompass Health (EHC), Universal Health Services (UHS), The Ensign Group (ENSG), Acadia Healthcare (ACHC), Select Medical (SEM), Brookdale Senior Living (BKD), U.S. Physical Therapy (USPH), Petco Health and Wellness (WOOF), and Community Health Systems (CYH). These companies are all part of the "health care facilities" industry.

Tenet Healthcare vs. Its Competitors

Tenet Healthcare (NYSE:THC) and Alcon (NYSE:ALC) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Tenet Healthcare currently has a consensus price target of $184.53, suggesting a potential upside of 6.78%. Alcon has a consensus price target of $106.13, suggesting a potential upside of 23.35%. Given Alcon's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Alcon is more favorable than Tenet Healthcare.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Tenet Healthcare
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
15 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.89
Alcon
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
10 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.80

95.4% of Tenet Healthcare shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.9% of Alcon shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Tenet Healthcare shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Tenet Healthcare had 19 more articles in the media than Alcon. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Tenet Healthcare and 0 mentions for Alcon. Tenet Healthcare's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Alcon's score of 0.35 indicating that Tenet Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Tenet Healthcare Positive
Alcon Neutral

Alcon has a net margin of 11.28% compared to Tenet Healthcare's net margin of 7.09%. Tenet Healthcare's return on equity of 22.58% beat Alcon's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Tenet Healthcare7.09% 22.58% 4.29%
Alcon 11.28%6.95%4.92%

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Tenet Healthcare$20.67B0.78$3.20B$15.1211.43
Alcon$9.91B4.28$1.02B$2.2538.24

Tenet Healthcare has a beta of 1.64, suggesting that its share price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alcon has a beta of 0.95, suggesting that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Tenet Healthcare beats Alcon on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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THC vs. The Competition

MetricTenet HealthcareMED IndustryMedical SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$16.51B$21.05B$5.61B$20.82B
Dividend YieldN/A0.46%4.23%3.65%
P/E Ratio11.4325.9228.5427.17
Price / Sales0.781.34430.1147.97
Price / Cash8.439.7936.0222.28
Price / Book2.8235.878.144.56
Net Income$3.20B$1.65B$3.24B$995.22M
7 Day Performance0.97%-0.87%0.17%-1.16%
1 Month Performance5.30%6.51%5.95%3.18%
1 Year Performance29.56%-8.87%26.22%6.83%

Tenet Healthcare Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
THC
Tenet Healthcare
4.7073 of 5 stars
$172.82
-2.8%
$184.53
+6.8%
+31.5%$16.51B$20.67B11.4398,000Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
ALC
Alcon
2.8875 of 5 stars
$87.36
-0.1%
$106.25
+21.6%
-4.4%$43.09B$9.93B38.8225,599Analyst Forecast
EHC
Encompass Health
4.906 of 5 stars
$119.64
+1.0%
$131.50
+9.9%
+25.2%$12.06B$5.37B24.7240,000
UHS
Universal Health Services
4.9887 of 5 stars
$183.49
+0.5%
$224.77
+22.5%
-1.0%$11.93B$15.83B10.3099,000Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
ENSG
The Ensign Group
4.8955 of 5 stars
$145.75
+1.2%
$163.50
+12.2%
+4.4%$8.38B$4.42B27.5539,300Positive News
ACHC
Acadia Healthcare
4.4001 of 5 stars
$24.08
-1.1%
$47.94
+99.1%
-64.3%$2.22B$3.15B11.8625,500
SEM
Select Medical
5 of 5 stars
$14.91
+1.2%
$26.00
+74.3%
-61.1%$1.92B$5.22B11.1344,100
BKD
Brookdale Senior Living
2.3549 of 5 stars
$7.94
+0.1%
$7.70
-3.0%
+3.1%$1.86B$3.16B-7.6336,000
USPH
U.S. Physical Therapy
3.8559 of 5 stars
$73.71
-1.1%
$109.00
+47.9%
-22.6%$1.12B$671.34M33.817,028Positive News
High Trading Volume
WOOF
Petco Health and Wellness
3.7947 of 5 stars
$2.98
+0.3%
$3.75
+25.8%
-11.6%$939.08M$6.08B-12.4229,000
CYH
Community Health Systems
2.919 of 5 stars
$3.72
+3.2%
$4.17
+12.2%
-6.2%$521.25M$12.63B-1.0160,000Upcoming Earnings

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This page (NYSE:THC) was last updated on 7/16/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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