SGRY vs. THC, UHS, BRBR, MMSI, TDOC, NEOG, HAE, MDGL, ALKS, and CERT
Should you be buying Surgery Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Surgery Partners include Tenet Healthcare (THC), Universal Health Services (UHS), BellRing Brands (BRBR), Merit Medical Systems (MMSI), Teladoc Health (TDOC), Neogen (NEOG), Haemonetics (HAE), Madrigal Pharmaceuticals (MDGL), Alkermes (ALKS), and Certara (CERT). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Surgery Partners vs.
Surgery Partners (NASDAQ:SGRY) and Tenet Healthcare (NYSE:THC) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Surgery Partners has a beta of 2.73, suggesting that its share price is 173% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tenet Healthcare has a beta of 2.14, suggesting that its share price is 114% more volatile than the S&P 500.
98.1% of Tenet Healthcare shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.3% of Surgery Partners shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Tenet Healthcare shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Surgery Partners presently has a consensus target price of $42.00, indicating a potential upside of 32.95%. Tenet Healthcare has a consensus target price of $69.47, indicating a potential upside of 27.49%. Given Surgery Partners' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Surgery Partners is more favorable than Tenet Healthcare.
Tenet Healthcare received 334 more outperform votes than Surgery Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.46% of users gave Tenet Healthcare an outperform vote while only 57.91% of users gave Surgery Partners an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Surgery Partners and Surgery Partners both had 3 articles in the media. Surgery Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Tenet Healthcare's score of 0.49 indicating that Surgery Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Tenet Healthcare has a net margin of 2.14% compared to Surgery Partners' net margin of -2.15%. Tenet Healthcare's return on equity of 32.88% beat Surgery Partners' return on equity.
Tenet Healthcare has higher revenue and earnings than Surgery Partners. Surgery Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tenet Healthcare, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Tenet Healthcare beats Surgery Partners on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding SGRY and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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.
Surgery Partners Competitors List
