ELV vs. CI, CNC, HUM, UNH, SNY, SYK, ISRG, MDT, BSX, and REGN
Should you be buying Elevance Health stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Elevance Health include The Cigna Group (CI), Centene (CNC), Humana (HUM), UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Sanofi (SNY), Stryker (SYK), Intuitive Surgical (ISRG), Medtronic (MDT), Boston Scientific (BSX), and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (REGN). 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 compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.
Elevance Health presently has a consensus price target of $587.42, suggesting a potential upside of 8.95%. The Cigna Group has a consensus price target of $366.14, suggesting a potential upside of 5.10%. Given Elevance Health's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Elevance Health is more favorable than The Cigna Group.
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.
Elevance Health has a net margin of 3.64% compared to The Cigna Group's net margin of 1.76%. Elevance Health's return on equity of 20.62% beat The Cigna Group's return on equity.
89.2% of Elevance Health shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.0% of The Cigna Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Elevance Health shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of The Cigna Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, The Cigna Group had 15 more articles in the media than Elevance Health. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for The Cigna Group and 10 mentions for Elevance Health. Elevance Health's average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat The Cigna Group's score of 0.88 indicating that Elevance Health is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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 a beta of 0.79, indicating that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, The Cigna Group has a beta of 0.57, indicating that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
Summary
Elevance Health beats The Cigna Group on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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