GEHC vs. PHG, HOLX, HLN, HUM, ALC, IDXX, CNC, BIIB, RMD, and IQV
Should you be buying GE HealthCare Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GE HealthCare Technologies include Koninklijke Philips (PHG), Hologic (HOLX), Haleon (HLN), Humana (HUM), Alcon (ALC), IDEXX Laboratories (IDXX), Centene (CNC), Biogen (BIIB), ResMed (RMD), and IQVIA (IQV). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
GE HealthCare Technologies (NASDAQ:GEHC) and Koninklijke Philips (NYSE:PHG) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk, community ranking, dividends and analyst recommendations.
GE HealthCare Technologies has a beta of 1.26, suggesting that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Koninklijke Philips has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Koninklijke Philips received 357 more outperform votes than GE HealthCare Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.71% of users gave Koninklijke Philips an outperform vote while only 53.57% of users gave GE HealthCare Technologies an outperform vote.
GE HealthCare Technologies presently has a consensus target price of $95.00, suggesting a potential upside of 17.12%. Given GE HealthCare Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe GE HealthCare Technologies is more favorable than Koninklijke Philips.
GE HealthCare Technologies pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Koninklijke Philips pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. GE HealthCare Technologies pays out 3.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Koninklijke Philips pays out -95.8% 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. Koninklijke Philips is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
GE HealthCare Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Koninklijke Philips. Koninklijke Philips is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GE HealthCare Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
GE HealthCare Technologies has a net margin of 8.05% compared to Koninklijke Philips' net margin of -4.41%. GE HealthCare Technologies' return on equity of 25.32% beat Koninklijke Philips' return on equity.
82.1% of GE HealthCare Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.7% of Koninklijke Philips shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of GE HealthCare Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, GE HealthCare Technologies had 9 more articles in the media than Koninklijke Philips. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for GE HealthCare Technologies and 11 mentions for Koninklijke Philips. Koninklijke Philips' average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat GE HealthCare Technologies' score of 0.24 indicating that Koninklijke Philips is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
GE HealthCare Technologies beats Koninklijke Philips on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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