UHS vs. THC, SGRY, DVA, CRL, PODD, UTHR, MEDP, RDY, SWAV, and SRPT
Should you be buying Universal Health Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Universal Health Services include Tenet Healthcare (THC), Surgery Partners (SGRY), DaVita (DVA), Charles River Laboratories International (CRL), Insulet (PODD), United Therapeutics (UTHR), Medpace (MEDP), Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (RDY), Shockwave Medical (SWAV), and Sarepta Therapeutics (SRPT). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Universal Health Services (NYSE:UHS) and Tenet Healthcare (NYSE:THC) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, earnings, profitability, community ranking, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Tenet Healthcare received 34 more outperform votes than Universal Health Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.57% of users gave Universal Health Services an outperform vote while only 59.78% of users gave Tenet Healthcare an outperform vote.
Universal Health Services presently has a consensus price target of $183.20, suggesting a potential upside of 3.10%. Tenet Healthcare has a consensus price target of $113.19, suggesting a potential downside of 11.90%. Given Universal Health Services' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Universal Health Services is more favorable than Tenet Healthcare.
Universal Health Services has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Tenet Healthcare. Tenet Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Universal Health Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Tenet Healthcare had 7 more articles in the media than Universal Health Services. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Tenet Healthcare and 13 mentions for Universal Health Services. Tenet Healthcare's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Universal Health Services' score of 0.73 indicating that Tenet Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Universal Health Services has a beta of 1.26, meaning that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tenet Healthcare has a beta of 2.09, meaning that its stock price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500.
86.1% of Universal Health Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.4% of Tenet Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. 16.1% of Universal Health Services shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Tenet Healthcare shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Tenet Healthcare has a net margin of 12.53% compared to Universal Health Services' net margin of 5.57%. Tenet Healthcare's return on equity of 26.76% beat Universal Health Services' return on equity.
Summary
Tenet Healthcare beats Universal Health Services on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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