CAH vs. COR, MCK, ICLR, ZBH, ALGN, RMD, ARGX, BIIB, WST, and MOH
Should you be buying Cardinal Health stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cardinal Health include Cencora (COR), McKesson (MCK), ICON Public (ICLR), Zimmer Biomet (ZBH), Align Technology (ALGN), ResMed (RMD), argenx (ARGX), Biogen (BIIB), West Pharmaceutical Services (WST), and Molina Healthcare (MOH). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) and Cencora (NYSE:COR) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking and risk.
Cencora has higher revenue and earnings than Cardinal Health. Cencora is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cardinal Health, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cardinal Health pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Cencora pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Cardinal Health pays out 78.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Cencora pays out 22.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Cardinal Health presently has a consensus price target of $103.07, indicating a potential downside of 0.13%. Cencora has a consensus price target of $218.22, indicating a potential downside of 9.41%. Given Cardinal Health's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Cardinal Health is more favorable than Cencora.
Cardinal Health has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cencora has a beta of 0.45, meaning that its stock price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Cardinal Health had 42 more articles in the media than Cencora. MarketBeat recorded 46 mentions for Cardinal Health and 4 mentions for Cencora. Cencora's average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat Cardinal Health's score of 0.08 indicating that Cencora is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
87.2% of Cardinal Health shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.5% of Cencora shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Cardinal Health shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 15.8% of Cencora shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Cardinal Health received 164 more outperform votes than Cencora when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.68% of users gave Cardinal Health an outperform vote while only 65.03% of users gave Cencora an outperform vote.
Cencora has a net margin of 0.69% compared to Cardinal Health's net margin of 0.30%. Cencora's return on equity of 323.23% beat Cardinal Health's return on equity.
Summary
Cencora beats Cardinal Health on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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