THC vs. ALC, UHS, EHC, ENSG, ACHC, SEM, USPH, WOOF, BKD, 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), U.S. Physical Therapy (USPH), Petco Health and Wellness (WOOF), Brookdale Senior Living (BKD), and Community Health Systems (CYH). These companies are all part of the "health care facilities" industry.
Tenet Healthcare vs.
Tenet Healthcare (NYSE:THC) and Alcon (NYSE:ALC) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, earnings, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Tenet Healthcare has a net margin of 14.91% compared to Alcon's net margin of 11.89%. Tenet Healthcare's return on equity of 24.05% beat Alcon's return on equity.
Tenet Healthcare has a beta of 2.06, meaning that its stock price is 106% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alcon has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
95.4% of Tenet Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.9% of Alcon shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Tenet Healthcare shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Tenet Healthcare presently has a consensus price target of $165.00, indicating a potential upside of 26.09%. Alcon has a consensus price target of $102.72, indicating a potential upside of 21.72%. Given Tenet Healthcare's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Tenet Healthcare is more favorable than Alcon.
Alcon has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Tenet Healthcare. 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.
Tenet Healthcare received 494 more outperform votes than Alcon when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.99% of users gave Alcon an outperform vote while only 60.99% of users gave Tenet Healthcare an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Tenet Healthcare and Tenet Healthcare both had 6 articles in the media. Tenet Healthcare's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Alcon's score of 0.04 indicating that Tenet Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Tenet Healthcare beats Alcon on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:THC) was last updated on 1/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
