ALC vs. COO, HUM, IDXX, COR, CNC, IQV, TAK, HLN, GEHC, and DXCM
Should you be buying Alcon stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alcon include Cooper Companies (COO), Humana (HUM), IDEXX Laboratories (IDXX), Cencora (COR), Centene (CNC), IQVIA (IQV), Takeda Pharmaceutical (TAK), Haleon (HLN), GE HealthCare Technologies (GEHC), and DexCom (DXCM). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Cooper Companies (NASDAQ:COO) and Alcon (NYSE:ALC) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, risk, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends and community ranking.
Alcon has a net margin of 10.96% compared to Alcon's net margin of 7.93%. Alcon's return on equity of 8.79% beat Cooper Companies' return on equity.
24.4% of Cooper Companies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.9% of Alcon shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Cooper Companies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Cooper Companies currently has a consensus price target of $109.69, indicating a potential upside of 19.18%. Alcon has a consensus price target of $94.71, indicating a potential upside of 6.88%. Given Alcon's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Cooper Companies is more favorable than Alcon.
In the previous week, Cooper Companies had 13 more articles in the media than Alcon. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Cooper Companies and 4 mentions for Alcon. Alcon's average media sentiment score of 0.47 beat Cooper Companies' score of 0.43 indicating that Cooper Companies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Cooper Companies received 429 more outperform votes than Alcon when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.59% of users gave Cooper Companies an outperform vote while only 61.72% of users gave Alcon an outperform vote.
Alcon has higher revenue and earnings than Cooper Companies. Alcon is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cooper Companies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cooper Companies has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alcon has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Cooper Companies beats Alcon on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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