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Petco Health and Wellness (WOOF) Competitors

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WOOF vs. ACHC, BKD, SEM, USPH, CYH, HCA, ALC, THC, EHC, and UHS

Should you be buying Petco Health and Wellness stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Petco Health and Wellness include Acadia Healthcare (ACHC), Brookdale Senior Living (BKD), Select Medical (SEM), U.S. Physical Therapy (USPH), Community Health Systems (CYH), HCA Healthcare (HCA), Alcon (ALC), Tenet Healthcare (THC), Encompass Health (EHC), and Universal Health Services (UHS). These companies are all part of the "health care facilities" industry.

Petco Health and Wellness vs. Its Competitors

Acadia Healthcare (NASDAQ:ACHC) and Petco Health and Wellness (NASDAQ:WOOF) are both health care facilities companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment and earnings.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Acadia Healthcare$3.15B0.64$255.61M$1.5114.39
Petco Health and Wellness$6.05B0.18-$101.82M-$0.10-34.60

Acadia Healthcare presently has a consensus price target of $39.00, suggesting a potential upside of 79.48%. Petco Health and Wellness has a consensus price target of $3.95, suggesting a potential upside of 14.26%. Given Acadia Healthcare's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Acadia Healthcare is more favorable than Petco Health and Wellness.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Acadia Healthcare
0 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.62
Petco Health and Wellness
0 Sell rating(s)
7 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.45

Acadia Healthcare has a net margin of 4.31% compared to Petco Health and Wellness' net margin of -0.47%. Acadia Healthcare's return on equity of 8.34% beat Petco Health and Wellness' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Acadia Healthcare4.31% 8.34% 4.20%
Petco Health and Wellness -0.47%-1.71%-0.37%

In the previous week, Acadia Healthcare had 13 more articles in the media than Petco Health and Wellness. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Acadia Healthcare and 8 mentions for Petco Health and Wellness. Petco Health and Wellness' average media sentiment score of 1.35 beat Acadia Healthcare's score of 0.61 indicating that Petco Health and Wellness is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Acadia Healthcare
5 Very Positive mention(s)
7 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
3 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Petco Health and Wellness
4 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Acadia Healthcare has a beta of 0.89, suggesting that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Petco Health and Wellness has a beta of 1.74, suggesting that its stock price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Acadia Healthcare beats Petco Health and Wellness on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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WOOF vs. The Competition

MetricPetco Health and WellnessRETAIL IndustryRetail SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$1.10B$12.35B$27.81B$10.18B
Dividend YieldN/A2.20%173.90%4.60%
P/E Ratio-34.6017.3620.6226.03
Price / Sales0.181.998.5192.26
Price / Cash7.6012.3017.5129.91
Price / Book0.984.335.026.25
Net Income-$101.82M$608.12M$872.22M$270.76M
7 Day Performance-8.47%-2.22%1.10%2.54%
1 Month Performance3.59%1.15%5.12%5.73%
1 Year Performance-24.45%9.24%19.65%25.85%

Petco Health and Wellness Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
WOOF
Petco Health and Wellness
3.4499 of 5 stars
$3.46
-6.0%
$3.95
+14.3%
-24.5%$1.10B$6.05B-34.6029,000Positive News
ACHC
Acadia Healthcare
4.4938 of 5 stars
$24.00
+1.5%
$40.77
+69.9%
-72.2%$2.21B$3.15B15.8825,500Positive News
BKD
Brookdale Senior Living
3.0913 of 5 stars
$7.63
-0.3%
$7.80
+2.3%
+12.7%$1.79B$3.13B-7.2636,000News Coverage
Positive News
SEM
Select Medical
4.9979 of 5 stars
$13.18
+1.3%
$20.25
+53.6%
-64.4%$1.63B$5.19B12.4244,100
USPH
U.S. Physical Therapy
4.1805 of 5 stars
$86.18
+0.4%
$110.25
+27.9%
-4.7%$1.31B$671.34M37.637,028Positive News
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CYH
Community Health Systems
3.9233 of 5 stars
$2.98
+4.8%
$3.58
+20.2%
-48.7%$416.86M$12.63B-2.0060,000Positive News
HCA
HCA Healthcare
4.5738 of 5 stars
$416.96
+1.3%
$401.83
-3.6%
+2.8%$97.48B$70.60B17.51316,000Positive News
ALC
Alcon
3.7127 of 5 stars
$80.39
+1.9%
$96.06
+19.5%
-20.5%$39.69B$9.91B37.4225,599
THC
Tenet Healthcare
4.6649 of 5 stars
$195.24
+1.4%
$192.69
-1.3%
+18.6%$17.25B$20.67B12.5098,000Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
Short Interest ↓
EHC
Encompass Health
4.7189 of 5 stars
$125.62
+0.9%
$134.00
+6.7%
+35.2%$12.65B$5.37B24.5940,000Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↑
UHS
Universal Health Services
4.9272 of 5 stars
$190.71
+2.7%
$214.77
+12.6%
-17.5%$12.14B$15.83B10.0599,000Positive News
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