ELV vs. UNH, CI, HUM, CNC, MOH, OSCR, ALHC, TRUP, CLOV, and NEUE
Should you be buying Elevance Health stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Elevance Health include UnitedHealth Group (UNH), The Cigna Group (CI), Humana (HUM), Centene (CNC), Molina Healthcare (MOH), Oscar Health (OSCR), Alignment Healthcare (ALHC), Trupanion (TRUP), Clover Health Investments (CLOV), and NeueHealth (NEUE). These companies are all part of the "hospital & medical service plans" industry.
UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH) and Elevance Health (NYSE:ELV) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership and dividends.
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.
UnitedHealth Group has a beta of 0.58, suggesting that its stock price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Elevance Health has a beta of 0.83, suggesting that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.
UnitedHealth Group has a net margin of 4.05% compared to UnitedHealth Group's net margin of 3.64%. Elevance Health's return on equity of 26.50% beat UnitedHealth Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, UnitedHealth Group had 28 more articles in the media than Elevance Health. MarketBeat recorded 46 mentions for UnitedHealth Group and 18 mentions for Elevance Health. UnitedHealth Group's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Elevance Health's score of 0.33 indicating that Elevance Health is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
UnitedHealth Group pays an annual dividend of $7.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Elevance Health pays an annual dividend of $6.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. UnitedHealth Group pays out 46.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Elevance Health pays out 24.6% 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. UnitedHealth Group has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years and Elevance Health has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years. UnitedHealth Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
UnitedHealth Group currently has a consensus price target of $578.75, indicating a potential upside of 17.99%. Elevance Health has a consensus price target of $601.64, indicating a potential upside of 11.63%. Given Elevance Health's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe UnitedHealth Group is more favorable than Elevance Health.
UnitedHealth Group received 836 more outperform votes than Elevance Health when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.51% of users gave UnitedHealth Group an outperform vote while only 66.80% of users gave Elevance Health an outperform vote.
87.9% of UnitedHealth Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.2% of Elevance Health shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of UnitedHealth Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Elevance Health shares are owned 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.
Summary
UnitedHealth Group beats Elevance Health on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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