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PINC vs. HQY, LIF, FOUR, LYFT, QBTS, MARA, WPP, ETSY, AMTM, and STNE

Should you be buying Premier stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Premier include HealthEquity (HQY), Life360 (LIF), Shift4 Payments (FOUR), Lyft (LYFT), D-Wave Quantum (QBTS), Marathon Digital (MARA), WPP (WPP), Etsy (ETSY), Amentum (AMTM), and StoneCo (STNE). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.

Premier vs. Its Competitors

HealthEquity (NASDAQ:HQY) and Premier (NASDAQ:PINC) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.

HealthEquity has a net margin of 11.49% compared to Premier's net margin of 2.00%. HealthEquity's return on equity of 12.04% beat Premier's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
HealthEquity11.49% 12.04% 7.44%
Premier 2.00%7.04%3.75%

HealthEquity has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Premier has a beta of 0.61, indicating that its stock price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Premier had 12 more articles in the media than HealthEquity. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Premier and 10 mentions for HealthEquity. HealthEquity's average media sentiment score of 1.30 beat Premier's score of 0.69 indicating that HealthEquity is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
HealthEquity
8 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Premier
6 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
13 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
HealthEquity$1.20B6.74$96.70M$1.6556.88
Premier$1.01B2.28$20.27M$0.22127.05

99.6% of HealthEquity shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.4% of Premier shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of HealthEquity shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Premier shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

HealthEquity presently has a consensus price target of $119.77, indicating a potential upside of 27.62%. Premier has a consensus price target of $25.75, indicating a potential downside of 7.87%. Given HealthEquity's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe HealthEquity is more favorable than Premier.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
HealthEquity
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
11 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Premier
1 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.86

Summary

HealthEquity beats Premier on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding PINC and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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PINC vs. The Competition

MetricPremierMedical Services IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$2.33B$7.70B$5.76B$10.51B
Dividend Yield2.97%2.76%5.53%4.57%
P/E Ratio127.0576.3776.4326.62
Price / Sales2.2835.16473.3192.90
Price / Cash9.7323.0337.4661.85
Price / Book1.516.8213.616.45
Net Income$20.27M$245.04M$3.29B$271.57M
7 Day Performance5.15%1.38%1.87%2.61%
1 Month Performance11.18%2.22%4.03%7.28%
1 Year Performance42.67%10.41%77.41%29.60%

Premier Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PINC
Premier
2.3789 of 5 stars
$27.95
-1.1%
$25.75
-7.9%
+40.5%$2.33B$1.01B127.052,700Trending News
Analyst Forecast
HQY
HealthEquity
4.3698 of 5 stars
$93.02
+0.6%
$119.77
+28.8%
+18.5%$7.97B$1.20B56.383,120Positive News
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LIF
Life360
1.0419 of 5 stars
$102.49
+2.2%
$86.43
-15.7%
+163.2%$7.77B$371.48M320.29600
FOUR
Shift4 Payments
4.6331 of 5 stars
$85.98
-1.6%
$115.21
+34.0%
-3.0%$7.73B$3.33B31.844,000
LYFT
Lyft
4.3552 of 5 stars
$20.44
+9.8%
$17.07
-16.5%
+73.6%$7.57B$5.79B85.172,934Trending News
Analyst Forecast
QBTS
D-Wave Quantum
1.5377 of 5 stars
$18.34
+3.2%
$19.27
+5.1%
+2,912.9%$6.07B$8.83M-17.463Trending News
Analyst Forecast
MARA
Marathon Digital
3.8476 of 5 stars
$16.24
-0.4%
$24.50
+50.9%
+10.2%$6.04B$656.38M14.639
WPP
WPP
1.7806 of 5 stars
$26.58
-2.1%
N/A-53.1%$5.86B$18.84B4.45108,044Analyst Downgrade
High Trading Volume
ETSY
Etsy
3.5172 of 5 stars
$57.80
-1.9%
$57.80
+14.2%$5.84B$2.81B46.612,400
AMTM
Amentum
3.6087 of 5 stars
$22.94
-3.8%
$27.30
+19.0%
N/A$5.80B$8.39B58.8253,000
STNE
StoneCo
3.5505 of 5 stars
$18.65
+2.0%
$16.56
-11.2%
+72.4%$5.23B$2.46B-26.6416,793Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:PINC) was last updated on 9/24/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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