CI vs. ELV, CNC, BSX, MDT, VRTX, REGN, BMY, GSK, SNY, and HCA
Should you be buying The Cigna Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of The Cigna Group include Elevance Health (ELV), Centene (CNC), Boston Scientific (BSX), Medtronic (MDT), Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX), Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (REGN), Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), GSK (GSK), Sanofi (SNY), and HCA Healthcare (HCA). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Elevance Health (NYSE:ELV) and The Cigna Group (NYSE:CI) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Elevance Health has higher earnings, but lower revenue than The Cigna Group. Elevance Health is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than The Cigna Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Elevance Health pays an annual dividend of $6.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. The Cigna Group pays an annual dividend of $5.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Elevance Health pays out 24.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. The Cigna Group pays out 46.0% 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. Elevance Health has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years and The Cigna Group has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years.
Elevance Health presently has a consensus target price of $587.42, indicating a potential upside of 11.47%. The Cigna Group has a consensus target price of $366.14, indicating a potential upside of 7.22%. Given The Cigna Group's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Elevance Health is more favorable than The Cigna Group.
Elevance Health has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, The Cigna Group has a beta of 0.57, meaning that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
The Cigna Group received 97 more outperform votes than Elevance Health when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.86% of users gave The Cigna Group an outperform vote while only 66.61% of users gave Elevance Health an outperform vote.
89.2% of Elevance Health shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.0% of The Cigna Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Elevance Health shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of The Cigna Group shares are owned by 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.
Elevance Health has a net margin of 3.64% compared to Elevance Health's net margin of 1.76%. The Cigna Group's return on equity of 20.62% beat Elevance Health's return on equity.
In the previous week, The Cigna Group had 23 more articles in the media than Elevance Health. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for The Cigna Group and 8 mentions for Elevance Health. The Cigna Group's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Elevance Health's score of 0.62 indicating that Elevance Health is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Elevance Health beats The Cigna Group on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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