USPH vs. PRVA, LFST, PNTG, INNV, TALK, DVAX, INMD, EYE, PTGX, and EWTX
Should you be buying U.S. Physical Therapy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of U.S. Physical Therapy include Privia Health Group (PRVA), LifeStance Health Group (LFST), The Pennant Group (PNTG), InnovAge (INNV), Talkspace (TALK), Dynavax Technologies (DVAX), InMode (INMD), National Vision (EYE), Protagonist Therapeutics (PTGX), and Edgewise Therapeutics (EWTX). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
U.S. Physical Therapy (NYSE:USPH) and Privia Health Group (NASDAQ:PRVA) are both medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
U.S. Physical Therapy currently has a consensus target price of $125.67, suggesting a potential upside of 24.76%. Privia Health Group has a consensus target price of $27.92, suggesting a potential upside of 52.88%. Given Privia Health Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Privia Health Group is more favorable than U.S. Physical Therapy.
In the previous week, Privia Health Group had 5 more articles in the media than U.S. Physical Therapy. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Privia Health Group and 2 mentions for U.S. Physical Therapy. U.S. Physical Therapy's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Privia Health Group's score of 0.61 indicating that U.S. Physical Therapy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
U.S. Physical Therapy has a net margin of 4.67% compared to Privia Health Group's net margin of 1.39%. U.S. Physical Therapy's return on equity of 8.52% beat Privia Health Group's return on equity.
94.5% of Privia Health Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of U.S. Physical Therapy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.2% of Privia Health Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
U.S. Physical Therapy has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Privia Health Group. U.S. Physical Therapy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Privia Health Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
U.S. Physical Therapy received 194 more outperform votes than Privia Health Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.22% of users gave Privia Health Group an outperform vote while only 56.04% of users gave U.S. Physical Therapy an outperform vote.
U.S. Physical Therapy has a beta of 1.39, meaning that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Privia Health Group has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
U.S. Physical Therapy beats Privia Health Group on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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