GEHC vs. HOLX, PHG, SGEN, CNC, HLN, ABC, ALC, IDXX, RMD, and ILMN
Should you be buying GE HealthCare Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GE HealthCare Technologies include Hologic (HOLX), Koninklijke Philips (PHG), Seagen (SGEN), Centene (CNC), Haleon (HLN), AmerisourceBergen (ABC), Alcon (ALC), IDEXX Laboratories (IDXX), ResMed (RMD), and Illumina (ILMN). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
GE HealthCare Technologies vs.
GE HealthCare Technologies (NASDAQ:GEHC) and Hologic (NASDAQ:HOLX) 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, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.
GE HealthCare Technologies currently has a consensus target price of $92.40, suggesting a potential upside of 15.54%. Hologic has a consensus target price of $86.00, suggesting a potential upside of 8.78%. Given GE HealthCare Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe GE HealthCare Technologies is more favorable than Hologic.
Hologic received 826 more outperform votes than GE HealthCare Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.01% of users gave Hologic an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave GE HealthCare Technologies an outperform vote.
Hologic has a net margin of 18.56% compared to GE HealthCare Technologies' net margin of 0.00%. Hologic's return on equity of 19.39% beat GE HealthCare Technologies' return on equity.
In the previous week, Hologic had 7 more articles in the media than GE HealthCare Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Hologic and 2 mentions for GE HealthCare Technologies. GE HealthCare Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.09 beat Hologic's score of 0.73 indicating that GE HealthCare Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
GE HealthCare Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Hologic.
95.2% of Hologic shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of GE HealthCare Technologies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Hologic shares are held by 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.
Summary
Hologic beats GE HealthCare Technologies on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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