There are more than 200 healthcare companies traded on public markets. Given the sheer number of pharmaceutical companies, medical research firms, hospital systems, and other healthcare stocks, it can be hard to identify which healthcare companies will outperform the market.
Fortunately, Wall Street's brightest minds have already done this for us. Every year, analysts issue approximately 3,000 distinct recommendations for healthcare companies. Analysts don't always get their "buy" ratings right, but it's worth taking a hard look when several analysts from different brokerages and research firms are giving "strong-buy" and "buy" ratings to the same healthcare stock.
This slide show lists the 15 healthcare companies with the highest average analyst recommendations from Wall Street's equities research analysts over the last 12 months.
- Consensus Rating
- Strong Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.5
- Ratings Breakdown
- 3 Buy Ratings, 1 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- N/A
About Demant A/S
Demant A/S operates as a hearing healthcare and audio technology company in Europe, North America, the Asia Pacific, Asia, and internationally. It operates through two segments: Hearing Healthcare and Communications. The Hearing Healthcare segment is involved in the manufacturing, servicing, and sale of hearing aids, and diagnostic products and services.
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#2 - Fresenius Medical Care (NYSE:FMS)
- Consensus Rating
- Hold
- Rating Score
- 2.0
- Ratings Breakdown
- 1 Buy Ratings, 2 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $27.80 (2.1% Downside)
About Fresenius Medical Care
Fresenius Medical Care AG provides dialysis and related services for individuals with renal diseases in Germany, North America, and internationally. The company offers dialysis treatment and related laboratory and diagnostic services through a network of outpatient dialysis clinics; materials, training, and patient support services comprising clinical monitoring, follow-up assistance, and arranging for delivery of the supplies to the patient's residence; and dialysis services under contract to hospitals in the United States for the hospitalized end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients and for patients suffering from acute kidney failure.
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- Consensus Rating
- Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.1
- Ratings Breakdown
- 6 Buy Ratings, 2 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $61.50 (23.7% Upside)
About Sanofi
Sanofi, a healthcare company, engages in the research, development, manufacture, and marketing of therapeutic solutions in the United States, Europe, Canada, and internationally. It operates through Pharmaceuticals, Vaccines, and Consumer Healthcare segments. The company provides specialty care, such as DUPIXENT, neurology and immunology, rare diseases, oncology, and rare blood disorders; medicines for diabetes and cardiovascular diseases; and established prescription products.
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#4 - Roivant Sciences (NASDAQ:ROIV)
- Consensus Rating
- Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.0
- Ratings Breakdown
- 3 Buy Ratings, 1 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $17.50 (55.1% Upside)
About Roivant Sciences
Roivant Sciences Ltd., a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company, engages in the development and commercialization of medicines for inflammation and immunology areas. The company provides Vants, a model to develop and commercialize its medicines and technologies focusing on biopharmaceutical businesses, discovery-stage companies, and health technology startups.
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#5 - Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (NYSE:TEVA)
- Consensus Rating
- Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.2
- Ratings Breakdown
- 10 Buy Ratings, 0 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $24.44 (41.3% Upside)
About Teva Pharmaceutical Industries
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited develops, manufactures, markets, and distributes generic medicines, specialty medicines, and biopharmaceutical products in North America, Europe, Israel, and internationally. It offers generic medicines in various dosage forms, such as tablets, capsules, injectables, inhalants, liquids, transdermal patches, ointments, and creams; sterile products, hormones, high-potency drugs, and cytotoxic substances in parenteral and solid dosage forms; and generic products with medical devices and combination products.
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#6 - Guardant Health (NASDAQ:GH)
- Consensus Rating
- Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.0
- Ratings Breakdown
- 21 Buy Ratings, 0 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $53.29 (8.7% Upside)
About Guardant Health
Guardant Health, Inc, a precision oncology company, provides blood and tissue tests, data sets, and analytics in the United States and internationally. The company provides Guardant360; Guardant360 LDT; Guardant360 CDx Test; Guardant360 Response Test; Guardant360 TissueNext Test; GuardantINFINITY Test; GuardantConnect, an integrated software-based solution designed for clinical and biopharmaceutical customers to connect patients tested with assays with actionable alterations with potentially relevant clinical studies; GuardantOMNI Test for advanced stage cancer; and GuardantINFORM, an in-silico research platform for tumor evolution and treatment resistance across various biomarker-driven cancers.
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#7 - Revolution Medicines (NASDAQ:RVMD)
- Consensus Rating
- Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.0
- Ratings Breakdown
- 12 Buy Ratings, 0 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $67.08 (64.5% Upside)
About Revolution Medicines
Revolution Medicines, Inc, a clinical-stage precision oncology company, develops novel targeted therapies for RAS-addicted cancers. The company's research and development pipeline comprises RAS(ON) inhibitors designed to be used as monotherapy in combination with other RAS(ON) inhibitors and/or in combination with RAS companion inhibitors or other therapeutic agents, and RAS companion inhibitors for combination treatment strategies.
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#8 - Encompass Health (NYSE:EHC)
- Consensus Rating
- Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.2
- Ratings Breakdown
- 9 Buy Ratings, 0 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $127.00 (6.5% Upside)
About Encompass Health
Encompass Health Corporation provides post-acute healthcare services in the United States and Puerto Rico. It owns and operates inpatient rehabilitation hospitals that provide medical, nursing, therapy, and ancillary services. The company provides specialized rehabilitative treatment on an inpatient basis to patients who have experienced physical or cognitive disabilities or injuries due to medical conditions, such as strokes, hip fractures, and various debilitating neurological conditions.
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#9 - Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (NYSE:RDY)
- Consensus Rating
- Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.0
- Ratings Breakdown
- 3 Buy Ratings, 1 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $16.95 (6.4% Upside)
About Dr. Reddy's Laboratories
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Limited, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an integrated pharmaceutical company worldwide. It operates through Global Generics, Pharmaceutical Services and Active Ingredients (PSAI), and Others segments. The company's Global Generics segment manufactures and markets prescription and over-the-counter finished pharmaceutical products that are marketed under a brand name or as a generic finished dosages with therapeutic equivalence to branded formulations, as well as engages in the biologics business.
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#10 - The Cigna Group (NYSE:CI)
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 2.9
- Ratings Breakdown
- 17 Buy Ratings, 2 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $380.39 (22.7% Upside)
About The Cigna Group
The Cigna Group, together with its subsidiaries, provides insurance and related products and services in the United States. Its Evernorth Health Services segment provides a range of coordinated and point solution health services, including pharmacy benefits, home delivery pharmacy, specialty pharmacy, distribution, and care delivery and management solutions to health plans, employers, government organizations, and health care providers.
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#11 - Novo Nordisk A/S (NYSE:NVO)
- Consensus Rating
- Hold
- Rating Score
- 2.3
- Ratings Breakdown
- 4 Buy Ratings, 5 Hold Ratings, 2 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $112.00 (42.4% Upside)
About Novo Nordisk A/S
Novo Nordisk A/S, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the research and development, manufacture, and distribution of pharmaceutical products in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, North America, and internationally. It operates in two segments, Diabetes and Obesity Care, and Rare Disease.
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#12 - Legend Biotech (NASDAQ:LEGN)
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 2.9
- Ratings Breakdown
- 10 Buy Ratings, 1 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $76.20 (108.3% Upside)
About Legend Biotech
Legend Biotech Corporation, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, through its subsidiaries, engages in the discovery, development, manufacturing, and commercialization of novel cell therapies for oncology and other indications in the United States, China, and internationally. Its lead product candidate, LCAR- B38M, is a chimeric antigen receptor for the treatment of multiple myeloma (MM).
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- Consensus Rating
- Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.0
- Ratings Breakdown
- 18 Buy Ratings, 0 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $104.81 (7.0% Upside)
About Insmed
Insmed Incorporated is a global biopharmaceutical company on a mission to transform the lives of patients with serious and rare diseases. Insmed's first commercial product is ARIKAYCE® (amikacin liposome inhalation suspension), which is approved in the United States for the treatment of Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) lung disease as part of a combination antibacterial drug regimen for adult patients with limited or no alternative treatment options.
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#14 - Exact Sciences (NASDAQ:EXAS)
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.0
- Ratings Breakdown
- 20 Buy Ratings, 2 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $70.90 (27.4% Upside)
About Exact Sciences
Exact Sciences Corporation provides cancer screening and diagnostic test products in the United States and internationally. The company offers Cologuard, a non-invasive stool-based DNA screening test to detect DNA and hemoglobin biomarkers associated with colorectal cancer and pre-cancer. It also provides Oncotype DX Breast Recurrence Score Test; Oncotype DX Breast DCIS Score Test; Oncotype DX Colon Recurrence Score Test; OncoExTra Test for tumor profiling for patients with advanced, metastatic, refractory, relapsed, or recurrent cancer; and Covid-19 testing services.
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#15 - Jazz Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:JAZZ)
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 2.9
- Ratings Breakdown
- 12 Buy Ratings, 1 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $184.00 (66.5% Upside)
About Jazz Pharmaceuticals
Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc identifies, develops, and commercializes pharmaceutical products for unmet medical needs in the United States, Europe, and internationally. The company offers Xywav for cataplexy or excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) with narcolepsy and idiopathic hypersomnia; Xyrem to treat cataplexy or EDS with narcolepsy; Epidiolex for seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut and Dravet syndromes, or tuberous sclerosis complex; Zepzelca to treat metastatic small cell lung cancer, or with disease progression on or after platinum-based chemotherapy; Rylaze for acute lymphoblastic leukemia or lymphoblastic lymphoma; Enrylaze to treat acute lymphoblastic leukemia and lymphoblastic lymphoma; Defitelio to treat severe hepatic veno-occlusive disease; and Vyxeos for newly-diagnosed therapy-related acute myeloid leukemia.
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