SGRY vs. CYH, THC, UHS, SHC, BHC, HCM, PGNY, TMDX, FTRE, and XENE
Should you be buying Surgery Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Surgery Partners include Community Health Systems (CYH), Tenet Healthcare (THC), Universal Health Services (UHS), Sotera Health (SHC), Bausch Health Companies (BHC), HUTCHMED (HCM), Progyny (PGNY), TransMedics Group (TMDX), Fortrea (FTRE), and Xenon Pharmaceuticals (XENE). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Community Health Systems (NYSE:CYH) and Surgery Partners (NASDAQ:SGRY) are both medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability and valuation.
Community Health Systems has a beta of 1.55, suggesting that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Surgery Partners has a beta of 2.75, suggesting that its share price is 175% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Surgery Partners had 4 more articles in the media than Community Health Systems. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Surgery Partners and 3 mentions for Community Health Systems. Surgery Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Community Health Systems' score of 0.18 indicating that Community Health Systems is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Community Health Systems presently has a consensus price target of $4.05, suggesting a potential upside of 20.54%. Surgery Partners has a consensus price target of $43.63, suggesting a potential upside of 70.41%. Given Community Health Systems' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Surgery Partners is more favorable than Community Health Systems.
85.0% of Community Health Systems shares are held by institutional investors. 11.6% of Community Health Systems shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Surgery Partners shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Community Health Systems received 250 more outperform votes than Surgery Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.62% of users gave Surgery Partners an outperform vote while only 53.27% of users gave Community Health Systems an outperform vote.
Surgery Partners has a net margin of -0.43% compared to Surgery Partners' net margin of -0.99%. Community Health Systems' return on equity of 3.65% beat Surgery Partners' return on equity.
Surgery Partners has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Community Health Systems. Surgery Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Community Health Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Surgery Partners beats Community Health Systems on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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