ENSG vs. PACS, GMED, HQY, ACHC, PCVX, EXEL, ITCI, ELAN, JAZZ, and CYTK
Should you be buying The Ensign Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of The Ensign Group include PACS Group (PACS), Globus Medical (GMED), HealthEquity (HQY), Acadia Healthcare (ACHC), Vaxcyte (PCVX), Exelixis (EXEL), Intra-Cellular Therapies (ITCI), Elanco Animal Health (ELAN), Jazz Pharmaceuticals (JAZZ), and Cytokinetics (CYTK). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
The Ensign Group (NASDAQ:ENSG) and PACS Group (NYSE:PACS) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, risk and media sentiment.
The Ensign Group presently has a consensus target price of $124.60, indicating a potential upside of 5.33%. PACS Group has a consensus target price of $30.50, indicating a potential upside of 24.39%. Given PACS Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe PACS Group is more favorable than The Ensign Group.
The Ensign Group has higher revenue and earnings than PACS Group.
96.1% of The Ensign Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.9% of The Ensign Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, PACS Group had 25 more articles in the media than The Ensign Group. MarketBeat recorded 35 mentions for PACS Group and 10 mentions for The Ensign Group. The Ensign Group's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat PACS Group's score of 0.22 indicating that The Ensign Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
The Ensign Group has a net margin of 5.67% compared to PACS Group's net margin of 0.00%. The Ensign Group's return on equity of 17.60% beat PACS Group's return on equity.
The Ensign Group received 345 more outperform votes than PACS Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave PACS Group an outperform vote while only 66.10% of users gave The Ensign Group an outperform vote.
Summary
The Ensign Group beats PACS Group on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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