ADUS vs. BTSG, AHCO, EHAB, AVAH, AMED, OPCH, ZLAB, TARO, INBX, and USPH
Should you be buying Addus HomeCare stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Addus HomeCare include BrightSpring Health Services (BTSG), AdaptHealth (AHCO), Enhabit (EHAB), Aveanna Healthcare (AVAH), Amedisys (AMED), Option Care Health (OPCH), Zai Lab (ZLAB), Taro Pharmaceutical Industries (TARO), Inhibrx (INBX), and U.S. Physical Therapy (USPH). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
BrightSpring Health Services (NASDAQ:BTSG) and Addus HomeCare (NASDAQ:ADUS) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends and valuation.
95.4% of Addus HomeCare shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.4% of Addus HomeCare shares are owned by 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.
BrightSpring Health Services presently has a consensus target price of $15.75, suggesting a potential upside of 36.96%. Addus HomeCare has a consensus target price of $103.00, suggesting a potential upside of 4.89%. Given Addus HomeCare's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe BrightSpring Health Services is more favorable than Addus HomeCare.
Addus HomeCare received 280 more outperform votes than BrightSpring Health Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 87.50% of users gave BrightSpring Health Services an outperform vote while only 66.82% of users gave Addus HomeCare an outperform vote.
Addus HomeCare has a net margin of 5.91% compared to Addus HomeCare's net margin of 0.00%. BrightSpring Health Services' return on equity of 9.70% beat Addus HomeCare's return on equity.
Addus HomeCare has lower revenue, but higher earnings than BrightSpring Health Services.
In the previous week, BrightSpring Health Services had 11 more articles in the media than Addus HomeCare. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for BrightSpring Health Services and 1 mentions for Addus HomeCare. BrightSpring Health Services' average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Addus HomeCare's score of 0.25 indicating that Addus HomeCare is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Addus HomeCare beats BrightSpring Health Services on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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