WOOF vs. BKD, USPH, CYH, HCA, ALC, THC, UHS, EHC, ENSG, and ACHC
Should you be buying Petco Health and Wellness stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Petco Health and Wellness include 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), Encompass Health (EHC), The Ensign Group (ENSG), and Acadia Healthcare (ACHC). These companies are all part of the "health care facilities" industry.
Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE:BKD) and Petco Health and Wellness (NASDAQ:WOOF) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Brookdale Senior Living has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Petco Health and Wellness. Brookdale Senior Living is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Petco Health and Wellness, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Brookdale Senior Living received 123 more outperform votes than Petco Health and Wellness when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.71% of users gave Brookdale Senior Living an outperform vote while only 59.69% of users gave Petco Health and Wellness an outperform vote.
Brookdale Senior Living presently has a consensus target price of $7.50, indicating a potential downside of 6.13%. Petco Health and Wellness has a consensus target price of $3.36, indicating a potential downside of 4.99%. Given Brookdale Senior Living's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Petco Health and Wellness is more favorable than Brookdale Senior Living.
Brookdale Senior Living has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Petco Health and Wellness has a beta of 1.89, suggesting that its share price is 89% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Petco Health and Wellness had 7 more articles in the media than Brookdale Senior Living. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Petco Health and Wellness and 3 mentions for Brookdale Senior Living. Brookdale Senior Living's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Petco Health and Wellness' score of 0.76 indicating that Petco Health and Wellness is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Brookdale Senior Living has a net margin of -5.71% compared to Brookdale Senior Living's net margin of -21.27%. Brookdale Senior Living's return on equity of -4.22% beat Petco Health and Wellness' return on equity.
Summary
Petco Health and Wellness beats Brookdale Senior Living on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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