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FTRE vs. WGS, LFST, ARDT, PGNY, NHC, GRAL, TDOC, VRDN, AHCO, and CDNA

Should you be buying Fortrea stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fortrea include GeneDx (WGS), LifeStance Health Group (LFST), Ardent Health (ARDT), Progyny (PGNY), National HealthCare (NHC), GRAIL (GRAL), Teladoc Health (TDOC), Viridian Therapeutics (VRDN), AdaptHealth (AHCO), and CareDx (CDNA). These companies are all part of the "healthcare" industry.

Fortrea vs. Its Competitors

Fortrea (NASDAQ:FTRE) and GeneDx (NASDAQ:WGS) are both medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and earnings.

GeneDx has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Fortrea. GeneDx is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fortrea, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Fortrea$2.70B0.18-$328.50M-$8.79-0.59
GeneDx$305.45M8.35-$52.29M-$1.41-63.44

Fortrea currently has a consensus price target of $15.00, indicating a potential upside of 187.08%. GeneDx has a consensus price target of $90.13, indicating a potential upside of 0.75%. Given Fortrea's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Fortrea is more favorable than GeneDx.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Fortrea
2 Sell rating(s)
12 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.86
GeneDx
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.75

GeneDx has a net margin of -11.69% compared to Fortrea's net margin of -29.43%. GeneDx's return on equity of 10.17% beat Fortrea's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Fortrea-29.43% 2.84% 1.06%
GeneDx -11.69%10.17%5.51%

Fortrea has a beta of 1.76, suggesting that its share price is 76% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GeneDx has a beta of 2.01, suggesting that its share price is 101% more volatile than the S&P 500.

61.7% of GeneDx shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Fortrea shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 29.6% of GeneDx shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Fortrea had 16 more articles in the media than GeneDx. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Fortrea and 16 mentions for GeneDx. GeneDx's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat Fortrea's score of 0.12 indicating that GeneDx is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Fortrea
1 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
29 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
GeneDx
4 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
7 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
2 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Summary

GeneDx beats Fortrea on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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FTRE vs. The Competition

MetricFortreaMED IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$473.04M$2.90B$5.50B$8.93B
Dividend YieldN/A2.69%5.38%4.12%
P/E Ratio-0.5921.2826.2519.86
Price / Sales0.18280.14415.14113.78
Price / Cash3.1441.8936.4957.06
Price / Book0.347.468.055.38
Net Income-$328.50M-$55.05M$3.16B$248.50M
7 Day Performance0.87%2.25%1.78%2.78%
1 Month Performance26.51%7.17%4.74%5.84%
1 Year Performance-78.05%5.13%35.81%20.06%

Fortrea Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
FTRE
Fortrea
4.0021 of 5 stars
$5.23
+0.3%
$15.00
+187.1%
-78.2%$473.04M$2.70B-0.5915,500
WGS
GeneDx
1.8822 of 5 stars
$79.71
+19.0%
$86.75
+8.8%
+214.7%$1.91B$305.45M-56.531,200Analyst Forecast
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
LFST
LifeStance Health Group
2.6006 of 5 stars
$4.96
+2.7%
$8.50
+71.4%
-0.2%$1.88B$1.25B-49.6010,218
ARDT
Ardent Health
3.4393 of 5 stars
$12.94
-0.8%
$20.67
+59.7%
N/A$1.87B$5.97B7.9424,900
PGNY
Progyny
1.7743 of 5 stars
$20.79
-0.9%
$23.45
+12.8%
-22.3%$1.80B$1.17B36.47310
NHC
National HealthCare
N/A$106.43
+1.5%
N/A-1.7%$1.65B$1.37B13.3412,400
GRAL
GRAIL
0.6372 of 5 stars
$43.07
-5.6%
$31.50
-26.9%
N/A$1.64B$125.60M-0.711,360Insider Trade
TDOC
Teladoc Health
3.1716 of 5 stars
$7.90
+14.5%
$9.60
+21.5%
-8.2%$1.21B$2.57B-1.335,500High Trading Volume
VRDN
Viridian Therapeutics
1.9146 of 5 stars
$14.71
-0.1%
$37.56
+155.3%
+9.5%$1.20B$300K-3.8250Positive News
AHCO
AdaptHealth
3.9233 of 5 stars
$8.30
-1.1%
$13.40
+61.4%
-3.4%$1.13B$3.26B14.5610,500News Coverage
Positive News
CDNA
CareDx
4.3665 of 5 stars
$18.95
-0.5%
$30.33
+60.1%
+22.6%$1.06B$333.79M16.48740Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:FTRE) was last updated on 7/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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