SGRY vs. UHS, CYH, SSY, HCA, THC, SWAV, FMS, MEDP, DVA, and UTHR
Should you be buying Surgery Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Surgery Partners include Universal Health Services (UHS), Community Health Systems (CYH), SunLink Health Systems (SSY), HCA Healthcare (HCA), Tenet Healthcare (THC), Shockwave Medical (SWAV), Fresenius Medical Care (FMS), Medpace (MEDP), DaVita (DVA), and United Therapeutics (UTHR). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Universal Health Services (NYSE:UHS) and Surgery Partners (NASDAQ:SGRY) are both medical companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, valuation, risk, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Universal Health Services has higher revenue and earnings than Surgery Partners.
Universal Health Services has a beta of 1.29, indicating that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Surgery Partners has a beta of 2.73, indicating that its share price is 173% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Universal Health Services presently has a consensus price target of $190.43, suggesting a potential upside of 0.35%. Surgery Partners has a consensus price target of $42.86, suggesting a potential upside of 68.80%. Given Universal Health Services' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Surgery Partners is more favorable than Universal Health Services.
In the previous week, Universal Health Services and Universal Health Services both had 6 articles in the media. Surgery Partners' average media sentiment score of 1.51 beat Universal Health Services' score of 0.96 indicating that Universal Health Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Universal Health Services has a net margin of 5.57% compared to Universal Health Services' net margin of 0.02%. Surgery Partners' return on equity of 13.34% beat Universal Health Services' return on equity.
Universal Health Services received 323 more outperform votes than Surgery Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.43% of users gave Universal Health Services an outperform vote while only 56.70% of users gave Surgery Partners an outperform vote.
86.1% of Universal Health Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.1% of Universal Health Services shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Surgery Partners shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Universal Health Services beats Surgery Partners on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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