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VCYT vs. GH, OPCH, RDNT, BTSG, SHC, SGRY, PRVA, CON, LFST, and ADUS

Should you be buying Veracyte stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Veracyte include Guardant Health (GH), Option Care Health (OPCH), RadNet (RDNT), BrightSpring Health Services (BTSG), Sotera Health (SHC), Surgery Partners (SGRY), Privia Health Group (PRVA), Concentra Group Holdings Parent (CON), LifeStance Health Group (LFST), and Addus HomeCare (ADUS). These companies are all part of the "healthcare" industry.

Veracyte vs. Its Competitors

Guardant Health (NASDAQ:GH) and Veracyte (NASDAQ:VCYT) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends and profitability.

Veracyte has a net margin of -2.18% compared to Guardant Health's net margin of -59.05%. Veracyte's return on equity of 3.02% beat Guardant Health's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Guardant Health-59.05% -19,157.20% -25.96%
Veracyte -2.18%3.02%2.80%

92.6% of Guardant Health shares are held by institutional investors. 6.1% of Guardant Health shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Veracyte shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Veracyte received 147 more outperform votes than Guardant Health when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.02% of users gave Veracyte an outperform vote while only 71.76% of users gave Guardant Health an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Guardant HealthOutperform Votes
305
71.76%
Underperform Votes
120
28.24%
VeracyteOutperform Votes
452
73.02%
Underperform Votes
167
26.98%

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Guardant Health$774.00M8.03-$479.45M-$3.39-14.80
Veracyte$463.39M4.53-$74.40M$0.4165.37

In the previous week, Guardant Health had 11 more articles in the media than Veracyte. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Guardant Health and 6 mentions for Veracyte. Veracyte's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Guardant Health's score of 0.63 indicating that Veracyte is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Guardant Health
7 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Veracyte
3 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Guardant Health currently has a consensus price target of $53.29, indicating a potential upside of 6.22%. Veracyte has a consensus price target of $40.90, indicating a potential upside of 52.61%. Given Veracyte's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Veracyte is more favorable than Guardant Health.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Guardant Health
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
20 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.05
Veracyte
1 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.70

Guardant Health has a beta of 1.37, indicating that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Veracyte has a beta of 2.09, indicating that its share price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Veracyte beats Guardant Health on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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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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VCYT vs. The Competition

MetricVeracyteMedical laboratories IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$2.10B$3.12B$5.62B$8.58B
Dividend YieldN/A31.26%5.28%4.17%
P/E Ratio-178.8314.2127.1919.81
Price / Sales4.53179.01408.23154.60
Price / Cash442.2957.5638.3234.64
Price / Book1.874.796.994.65
Net Income-$74.40M-$22.21M$3.23B$248.05M
7 Day Performance-2.40%3.28%-0.18%-0.26%
1 Month Performance-8.56%6.35%8.61%4.37%
1 Year Performance22.99%16.34%32.26%13.65%

Veracyte Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
VCYT
Veracyte
3.9993 of 5 stars
$26.86
+0.6%
$40.90
+52.3%
+20.9%$2.10B$463.39M-178.62790Positive News
GH
Guardant Health
3.7973 of 5 stars
$49.53
+3.1%
$53.29
+7.6%
+54.0%$6.14B$774.00M-13.911,790Gap Down
OPCH
Option Care Health
3.9875 of 5 stars
$31.67
-0.7%
$35.50
+12.1%
+13.2%$5.19B$5.19B26.615,600Positive News
RDNT
RadNet
3.6922 of 5 stars
$59.07
+0.7%
$69.75
+18.1%
-8.4%$4.43B$1.87B-843.748,970Positive News
Analyst Forecast
BTSG
BrightSpring Health Services
0.7735 of 5 stars
$23.86
-1.0%
$23.56
-1.3%
+99.3%$4.16B$11.86B-91.7735,000Gap Up
SHC
Sotera Health
3.4623 of 5 stars
$12.36
+0.5%
$15.80
+27.8%
-2.0%$3.51B$1.11B49.443,000High Trading Volume
SGRY
Surgery Partners
2.7992 of 5 stars
$23.36
+0.7%
$33.56
+43.6%
-13.3%$2.99B$3.17B-48.6712,200
PRVA
Privia Health Group
3.7288 of 5 stars
$23.24
+0.2%
$27.77
+19.5%
+29.7%$2.83B$1.80B232.42810Positive News
CON
Concentra Group Holdings Parent
N/A$22.09
+0.3%
$28.50
+29.0%
N/A$2.81B$1.93B16.4911,000Positive News
LFST
LifeStance Health Group
2.6166 of 5 stars
$5.88
+0.7%
$8.50
+44.6%
-0.9%$2.29B$1.28B-22.626,640Positive News
ADUS
Addus HomeCare
4.7799 of 5 stars
$116.56
+3.0%
$142.57
+22.3%
-3.7%$2.14B$1.21B26.6733,200Analyst Forecast
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This page (NASDAQ:VCYT) was last updated on 6/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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