HCSG vs. CSU, UNF, MGRC, KAR, VVI, PFMT, CTAS, CPRT, IRM, and BKD
Should you be buying Healthcare Services Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Healthcare Services Group include Capital Senior Living (CSU), UniFirst (UNF), McGrath RentCorp (MGRC), OPENLANE (KAR), Viad (VVI), Performant Financial (PFMT), Cintas (CTAS), Copart (CPRT), Iron Mountain (IRM), and Brookdale Senior Living (BKD).
Healthcare Services Group (NASDAQ:HCSG) and Capital Senior Living (NYSE:CSU) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, profitability, risk, media sentiment and valuation.
Healthcare Services Group currently has a consensus price target of $14.50, indicating a potential upside of 39.02%. Capital Senior Living has a consensus price target of $3,400.00, indicating a potential upside of ∞. Given Capital Senior Living's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Capital Senior Living is more favorable than Healthcare Services Group.
Healthcare Services Group has a beta of 0.51, suggesting that its share price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Capital Senior Living has a beta of 2.15, suggesting that its share price is 115% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Healthcare Services Group has higher revenue and earnings than Capital Senior Living. Capital Senior Living is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Healthcare Services Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Healthcare Services Group received 16 more outperform votes than Capital Senior Living when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.22% of users gave Capital Senior Living an outperform vote while only 55.95% of users gave Healthcare Services Group an outperform vote.
98.0% of Healthcare Services Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.7% of Capital Senior Living shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.1% of Healthcare Services Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.5% of Capital Senior Living shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Healthcare Services Group had 2 more articles in the media than Capital Senior Living. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Healthcare Services Group and 0 mentions for Capital Senior Living. Healthcare Services Group's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Capital Senior Living's score of 0.19 indicating that Healthcare Services Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Capital Senior Living has a net margin of 40.40% compared to Healthcare Services Group's net margin of 2.44%. Healthcare Services Group's return on equity of 11.44% beat Capital Senior Living's return on equity.
Summary
Healthcare Services Group beats Capital Senior Living on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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