ENSG vs. THC, UHS, EHC, ACHC, SEM, USPH, BKD, WOOF, CYH, and FVE
Should you be buying The Ensign Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of The Ensign Group include Tenet Healthcare (THC), Universal Health Services (UHS), Encompass Health (EHC), Acadia Healthcare (ACHC), Select Medical (SEM), U.S. Physical Therapy (USPH), Brookdale Senior Living (BKD), Petco Health and Wellness (WOOF), Community Health Systems (CYH), and Five Star Senior Living (FVE). These companies are all part of the "health care facilities" industry.
The Ensign Group (NASDAQ:ENSG) and Tenet Healthcare (NYSE:THC) are both medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, risk, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership and dividends.
The Ensign Group currently has a consensus target price of $124.60, suggesting a potential upside of 3.70%. Tenet Healthcare has a consensus target price of $113.19, suggesting a potential downside of 13.56%. Given The Ensign Group's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe The Ensign Group is more favorable than Tenet Healthcare.
The Ensign Group has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tenet Healthcare has a beta of 2.09, meaning that its share price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, The Ensign Group had 3 more articles in the media than Tenet Healthcare. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for The Ensign Group and 5 mentions for Tenet Healthcare. The Ensign Group's average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat Tenet Healthcare's score of 1.05 indicating that The Ensign Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Tenet Healthcare has higher revenue and earnings than The Ensign Group. Tenet Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than The Ensign Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
96.1% of The Ensign Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.4% of Tenet Healthcare shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.9% of The Ensign Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Tenet Healthcare shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Tenet Healthcare received 300 more outperform votes than The Ensign Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.10% of users gave The Ensign Group an outperform vote while only 59.78% of users gave Tenet Healthcare an outperform vote.
Tenet Healthcare has a net margin of 12.53% compared to The Ensign Group's net margin of 5.67%. Tenet Healthcare's return on equity of 26.76% beat The Ensign Group's return on equity.
Summary
Tenet Healthcare beats The Ensign Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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