UNH vs. ELV, CI, HUM, CNC, MOH, OSCR, ALHC, CLOV, TRUP, and NEUE
Should you be buying UnitedHealth Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of UnitedHealth Group include Elevance Health (ELV), The Cigna Group (CI), Humana (HUM), Centene (CNC), Molina Healthcare (MOH), Oscar Health (OSCR), Alignment Healthcare (ALHC), Clover Health Investments (CLOV), Trupanion (TRUP), and NeueHealth (NEUE). These companies are all part of the "hospital & medical service plans" industry.
UnitedHealth Group vs.
Elevance Health (NYSE:ELV) and UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability and earnings.
UnitedHealth Group received 857 more outperform votes than Elevance Health when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.57% of users gave UnitedHealth Group an outperform vote while only 67.18% of users gave Elevance Health an outperform vote.
In the previous week, UnitedHealth Group had 27 more articles in the media than Elevance Health. MarketBeat recorded 96 mentions for UnitedHealth Group and 69 mentions for Elevance Health. UnitedHealth Group's average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat Elevance Health's score of 0.87 indicating that UnitedHealth Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
UnitedHealth Group has higher revenue and earnings than Elevance Health. Elevance Health is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than UnitedHealth Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
89.2% of Elevance Health shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.9% of UnitedHealth Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Elevance Health shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of UnitedHealth Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Elevance Health presently has a consensus target price of $517.03, indicating a potential upside of 29.06%. UnitedHealth Group has a consensus target price of $629.32, indicating a potential upside of 16.91%. Given Elevance Health's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Elevance Health is more favorable than UnitedHealth Group.
Elevance Health pays an annual dividend of $6.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. UnitedHealth Group pays an annual dividend of $8.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Elevance Health pays out 26.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. UnitedHealth Group pays out 54.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Elevance Health has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years and UnitedHealth Group has increased its dividend for 15 consecutive years. Elevance Health is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Elevance Health has a net margin of 3.68% compared to UnitedHealth Group's net margin of 3.60%. UnitedHealth Group's return on equity of 26.69% beat Elevance Health's return on equity.
Elevance Health has a beta of 0.84, meaning that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, UnitedHealth Group has a beta of 0.62, meaning that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
UnitedHealth Group beats Elevance Health on 14 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:UNH) was last updated on 1/30/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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