ARDT vs. GH, RDNT, BTSG, SHC, OPCH, WGS, HTFL, PRVA, VCYT, and SGRY
Should you be buying Ardent Health stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ardent Health include Guardant Health (GH), RadNet (RDNT), BrightSpring Health Services (BTSG), Sotera Health (SHC), Option Care Health (OPCH), GeneDx (WGS), Heartflow (HTFL), Privia Health Group (PRVA), Veracyte (VCYT), and Surgery Partners (SGRY). These companies are all part of the "healthcare" industry.
Ardent Health vs. Its Competitors
Ardent Health (NYSE:ARDT) and Guardant Health (NASDAQ:GH) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings and risk.
In the previous week, Guardant Health had 3 more articles in the media than Ardent Health. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Guardant Health and 6 mentions for Ardent Health. Ardent Health's average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat Guardant Health's score of 0.57 indicating that Ardent Health is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ardent Health presently has a consensus price target of $19.30, suggesting a potential upside of 33.43%. Guardant Health has a consensus price target of $65.86, suggesting a potential upside of 2.60%. Given Ardent Health's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Ardent Health is more favorable than Guardant Health.
92.6% of Guardant Health shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of Ardent Health shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.1% of Guardant Health shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Ardent Health has higher revenue and earnings than Guardant Health. Guardant Health is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ardent Health, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ardent Health has a beta of 0.39, meaning that its share price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Guardant Health has a beta of 1.53, meaning that its share price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ardent Health has a net margin of 4.11% compared to Guardant Health's net margin of -49.93%. Ardent Health's return on equity of 16.66% beat Guardant Health's return on equity.
Summary
Ardent Health beats Guardant Health on 9 of the 16 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 NYSE 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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This page (NYSE:ARDT) was last updated on 10/16/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
