HOLX vs. PHG, GEHC, LH, ARGX, BAX, CAH, STE, ICLR, COO, and PODD
Should you be buying Hologic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hologic include Koninklijke Philips (PHG), GE HealthCare Technologies (GEHC), Laboratory Co. of America (LH), argenx (ARGX), Baxter International (BAX), Cardinal Health (CAH), STERIS (STE), ICON Public (ICLR), Cooper Companies (COO), and Insulet (PODD). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Hologic vs.
Koninklijke Philips (NYSE:PHG) and Hologic (NASDAQ:HOLX) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation and institutional ownership.
10.2% of Koninklijke Philips shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.2% of Hologic shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of Hologic shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Koninklijke Philips has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hologic has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Hologic has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Koninklijke Philips. Koninklijke Philips is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hologic, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hologic received 466 more outperform votes than Koninklijke Philips when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.31% of users gave Hologic an outperform vote while only 57.17% of users gave Koninklijke Philips an outperform vote.
Koninklijke Philips presently has a consensus price target of $16.79, suggesting a potential upside of 3.04%. Hologic has a consensus price target of $84.08, suggesting a potential upside of 6.65%. Given Hologic's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Hologic is more favorable than Koninklijke Philips.
Hologic has a net margin of 22.17% compared to Koninklijke Philips' net margin of -7.67%. Hologic's return on equity of 25.12% beat Koninklijke Philips' return on equity.
In the previous week, Koninklijke Philips and Koninklijke Philips both had 7 articles in the media. Koninklijke Philips' average media sentiment score of 1.09 beat Hologic's score of 0.56 indicating that Koninklijke Philips is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Hologic beats Koninklijke Philips on 15 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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