SGRY vs. THC, UHS, CYH, SSY, HCA, AVTR, SRPT, PODD, VTRS, and RVTY
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), Community Health Systems (CYH), SunLink Health Systems (SSY), HCA Healthcare (HCA), Avantor (AVTR), Sarepta Therapeutics (SRPT), Insulet (PODD), Viatris (VTRS), and Revvity (RVTY). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Surgery Partners (NASDAQ:SGRY) and Tenet Healthcare (NYSE:THC) are both medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
95.4% of Tenet Healthcare shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of Surgery Partners shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Tenet Healthcare shares are owned by company 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.
Surgery Partners presently has a consensus price target of $40.14, indicating a potential upside of 25.37%. Tenet Healthcare has a consensus price target of $137.12, indicating a potential downside of 9.59%. Given Surgery Partners' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Surgery Partners is more favorable than Tenet Healthcare.
Tenet Healthcare has a net margin of 13.17% compared to Surgery Partners' net margin of 0.02%. Tenet Healthcare's return on equity of 24.66% beat Surgery Partners' return on equity.
Surgery Partners has a beta of 2.78, indicating that its share price is 178% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tenet Healthcare has a beta of 2.15, indicating that its share price is 115% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Tenet Healthcare received 367 more outperform votes than Surgery Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.33% of users gave Tenet Healthcare an outperform vote while only 56.95% of users gave Surgery Partners an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Tenet Healthcare had 41 more articles in the media than Surgery Partners. MarketBeat recorded 48 mentions for Tenet Healthcare and 7 mentions for Surgery Partners. Tenet Healthcare's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Surgery Partners' score of 0.44 indicating that Tenet Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Tenet Healthcare has higher revenue and earnings than Surgery Partners.
Summary
Tenet Healthcare beats Surgery Partners on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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