THC vs. ALC, UHS, EHC, 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), Universal Health Services (UHS), Encompass Health (EHC), 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.
Alcon (NYSE:ALC) and Tenet Healthcare (NYSE:THC) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, risk and community ranking.
Alcon presently has a consensus target price of $103.10, suggesting a potential upside of 6.35%. Tenet Healthcare has a consensus target price of $166.41, suggesting a potential upside of 23.81%. Given Tenet Healthcare's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Tenet Healthcare is more favorable than Alcon.
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.
53.9% of Alcon shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.4% of Tenet Healthcare shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Alcon shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Tenet Healthcare shares are owned by company 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.
In the previous week, Tenet Healthcare had 10 more articles in the media than Alcon. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Tenet Healthcare and 14 mentions for Alcon. Tenet Healthcare's average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat Alcon's score of 0.38 indicating that Tenet Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Alcon has a beta of 1.07, suggesting that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tenet Healthcare has a beta of 2.06, suggesting that its stock price is 106% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Tenet Healthcare has a net margin of 15.48% compared to Alcon's net margin of 11.89%. Tenet Healthcare's return on equity of 21.88% beat Alcon's return on equity.
Tenet Healthcare received 494 more outperform votes than Alcon when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.49% of users gave Alcon an outperform vote while only 61.09% of users gave Tenet Healthcare an outperform vote.
Summary
Tenet Healthcare beats Alcon on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:THC) was last updated on 3/28/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
