PHG vs. HOLX, CHEK, CI, HCA, GSK, BMY, ZTS, GILD, MCK, and BDX
Should you be buying Koninklijke Philips stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Koninklijke Philips include Hologic (HOLX), Check-Cap (CHEK), The Cigna Group (CI), HCA Healthcare (HCA), GSK (GSK), Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), Zoetis (ZTS), Gilead Sciences (GILD), McKesson (MCK), and Becton, Dickinson and Company (BDX). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Hologic (NASDAQ:HOLX) and Koninklijke Philips (NYSE:PHG) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, profitability, risk, dividends and media sentiment.
94.7% of Hologic shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.7% of Koninklijke Philips shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Hologic shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Hologic has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Koninklijke Philips. Koninklijke Philips is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hologic, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hologic presently has a consensus price target of $85.60, suggesting a potential upside of 14.88%. Given Koninklijke Philips' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Hologic is more favorable than Koninklijke Philips.
Hologic received 482 more outperform votes than Koninklijke Philips when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.76% of users gave Hologic an outperform vote while only 56.75% of users gave Koninklijke Philips an outperform vote.
Hologic has a net margin of 11.78% compared to Hologic's net margin of -4.41%. Koninklijke Philips' return on equity of 18.91% beat Hologic's return on equity.
Hologic has a beta of 1, suggesting that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Koninklijke Philips has a beta of 0.76, suggesting that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Hologic had 7 more articles in the media than Koninklijke Philips. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Hologic and 3 mentions for Koninklijke Philips. Koninklijke Philips' average media sentiment score of 1.42 beat Hologic's score of 1.11 indicating that Hologic is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Hologic beats Koninklijke Philips on 17 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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