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Petco Health and Wellness (WOOF) Competitors

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

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), Select Medical (SEM), Brookdale Senior Living (BKD), U.S. Physical Therapy (USPH), Community Health Systems (CYH), HCA Healthcare (HCA), Alcon (ALC), Tenet Healthcare (THC), Universal Health Services (UHS), and Encompass Health (EHC). These companies are all part of the "health care facilities" industry.

Petco Health and Wellness vs.

Petco Health and Wellness (NASDAQ:WOOF) and Acadia Healthcare (NASDAQ:ACHC) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, profitability and valuation.

Acadia Healthcare has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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
Petco Health and Wellness$6.12B0.16-$1.28B-$0.37-8.35
Acadia Healthcare$3.15B0.70-$21.67M$2.778.63

Acadia Healthcare has a net margin of 8.99% compared to Petco Health and Wellness' net margin of -1.77%. Acadia Healthcare's return on equity of 11.12% beat Petco Health and Wellness' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Petco Health and Wellness-1.77% -5.40% -1.18%
Acadia Healthcare 8.99%11.12%5.77%

Petco Health and Wellness has a beta of 1.74, meaning that its share price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Acadia Healthcare has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Petco Health and Wellness currently has a consensus price target of $4.11, suggesting a potential upside of 32.97%. Acadia Healthcare has a consensus price target of $50.39, suggesting a potential upside of 110.74%. Given Acadia Healthcare's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, 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
Petco Health and Wellness
0 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.44
Acadia Healthcare
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67

In the previous week, Acadia Healthcare had 7 more articles in the media than Petco Health and Wellness. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Acadia Healthcare and 3 mentions for Petco Health and Wellness. Petco Health and Wellness' average media sentiment score of 1.78 beat Acadia Healthcare's score of 0.76 indicating that Petco Health and Wellness is being referred to more favorably in the media.

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

Acadia Healthcare received 213 more outperform votes than Petco Health and Wellness when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.05% of users gave Acadia Healthcare an outperform vote while only 59.70% of users gave Petco Health and Wellness an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Petco Health and WellnessOutperform Votes
357
59.70%
Underperform Votes
241
40.30%
Acadia HealthcareOutperform Votes
570
66.05%
Underperform Votes
293
33.95%

Summary

Acadia Healthcare beats Petco Health and Wellness on 13 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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WOOF vs. The Competition

MetricPetco Health and WellnessRetail stores IndustryRetail SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$973.74M$3.87B$22.64B$7.34B
Dividend YieldN/A3.62%170.20%4.30%
P/E Ratio-7.736.1721.4717.80
Price / Sales0.162.124.0997.70
Price / Cash0.667.8519.4134.64
Price / Book0.802.345.593.98
Net Income-$1.28B$204.42M$781.29M$247.81M
1 Month Performance26.64%-12.53%-6.15%-7.85%
1 Year Performance86.14%-18.96%1.86%1.59%

Petco Health and Wellness Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
WOOF
Petco Health and Wellness
3.6303 of 5 stars
$3.09
-0.3%
$4.11
+33.0%
+87.3%$973.74M$6.12B-7.7328,500Positive News
ACHC
Acadia Healthcare
4.5201 of 5 stars
$26.39
+0.9%
$50.39
+90.9%
-66.0%$2.45B$3.15B8.6523,000Gap Up
SEM
Select Medical
4.9458 of 5 stars
$16.60
+1.0%
$27.25
+64.2%
-38.2%$2.14B$5.19B10.0653,800Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
Positive News
BKD
Brookdale Senior Living
3.4671 of 5 stars
$6.23
+8.3%
$7.40
+18.8%
-4.4%$1.25B$3.13B-7.0036,000Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↓
USPH
U.S. Physical Therapy
3.6954 of 5 stars
$69.96
+0.9%
$109.00
+55.8%
-31.1%$1.06B$671.35M74.436,140Analyst Downgrade
News Coverage
Positive News
CYH
Community Health Systems
4.2674 of 5 stars
$2.59
+4.4%
$4.02
+55.1%
-13.4%$363.39M$12.63B-0.6666,000Upcoming Earnings
HCA
HCA Healthcare
4.7709 of 5 stars
$340.75
+2.2%
$385.67
+13.2%
+12.6%$83.89B$70.60B15.51294,000Upcoming Earnings
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ALC
Alcon
2.8992 of 5 stars
$90.52
+1.0%
$106.22
+17.3%
+17.9%$44.65B$9.91B38.6825,200Short Interest ↑
THC
Tenet Healthcare
4.9609 of 5 stars
$124.77
+0.8%
$166.33
+33.3%
+33.4%$11.87B$20.67B3.87102,400Analyst Downgrade
Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
Gap Up
UHS
Universal Health Services
4.9899 of 5 stars
$178.88
+2.0%
$228.77
+27.9%
+13.6%$11.63B$15.83B11.8993,800Analyst Downgrade
EHC
Encompass Health
3.9365 of 5 stars
$103.34
+1.1%
$107.67
+4.2%
+31.6%$10.41B$5.37B23.1735,000Upcoming Earnings
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News Coverage

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