SPI vs. MGP, SBI, TLY, KNB, MDC, BTG, ABC, UDG, HCM, and INDV
Should you be buying Spire Healthcare Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Spire Healthcare Group include Medica Group (MGP), Sourcebio International (SBI), Totally (TLY), Kanabo Group (KNB), Mediclinic International (MDC), BTG (BTG), Abcam (ABC), UDG Healthcare (UDG), HUTCHMED (HCM), and Indivior (INDV). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Medica Group (LON:MGP) and Spire Healthcare Group (LON:SPI) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
88.4% of Medica Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.9% of Spire Healthcare Group shares are held by institutional investors. 2.9% of Medica Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 34.7% of Spire Healthcare Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Spire Healthcare Group has a consensus price target of GBX 302.25, suggesting a potential upside of 19.47%.
Medica Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share. Spire Healthcare Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Medica Group pays out 5,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Spire Healthcare Group pays out 4,285.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Spire Healthcare Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Medica Group has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Spire Healthcare Group has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Spire Healthcare Group had 2 more articles in the media than Medica Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Spire Healthcare Group and 0 mentions for Medica Group. Spire Healthcare Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Medica Group's score of -0.32 indicating that Medica Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Spire Healthcare Group received 281 more outperform votes than Medica Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.04% of users gave Medica Group an outperform vote while only 60.82% of users gave Spire Healthcare Group an outperform vote.
Spire Healthcare Group has higher revenue and earnings than Medica Group. Medica Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Spire Healthcare Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Medica Group has a net margin of 9.35% compared to Medica Group's net margin of 2.01%. Spire Healthcare Group's return on equity of 12.42% beat Medica Group's return on equity.
Summary
Spire Healthcare Group beats Medica Group on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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