Talkspace (TALK) Competitors

Talkspace (NASDAQ:TALK) and agilon health (NYSE:AGL) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations and valuation.

Do analysts rate TALK or AGL?

Talkspace presently has a consensus price target of $4.50, suggesting a potential upside of 46.58%. agilon health has a consensus price target of $4.81, suggesting a potential upside of 12.86%. Given Talkspace's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Talkspace is more favorable than agilon health.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Talkspace	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	2 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
agilon health	2 Sell rating(s)	12 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.11

Which has more volatility & risk, TALK or AGL?

Talkspace has a beta of 1.16, indicating that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, agilon health has a beta of 0.38, indicating that its stock price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer TALK or AGL?

agilon health received 49 more outperform votes than Talkspace when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 44.00% of users gave agilon health an outperform vote while only 42.86% of users gave Talkspace an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Talkspace	Outperform Votes 6 42.86%	Underperform Votes 8 57.14%
agilon health	Outperform Votes 55 44.00%	Underperform Votes 70 56.00%

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, TALK or AGL?

Talkspace has higher earnings, but lower revenue than agilon health. agilon health is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Talkspace, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Talkspace	$187.59M	2.76	-$19.18M	$0.01	307.00
agilon health	$6.06B	0.29	-$262.60M	-$0.63	-6.76

Is TALK or AGL more profitable?

Talkspace has a net margin of 0.61% compared to agilon health's net margin of -6.88%. Talkspace's return on equity of 0.98% beat agilon health's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Talkspace	0.61%	0.98%	0.84%
agilon health	-6.88%	-47.84%	-14.97%

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of TALK or AGL?

57.4% of Talkspace shares are owned by institutional investors. 21.7% of Talkspace shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of agilon health shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the media refer more to TALK or AGL?

In the previous week, agilon health had 8 more articles in the media than Talkspace. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for agilon health and 5 mentions for Talkspace. Talkspace's average media sentiment score of 1.49 beat agilon health's score of 0.78 indicating that Talkspace is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Talkspace	3 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
agilon health	4 Very Positive mention(s)	3 Positive mention(s)	4 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

Talkspace beats agilon health on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.