ARDT vs. OPCH, GH, RDNT, BTSG, SHC, PRVA, SGRY, CON, VCYT, and LFST
Should you be buying Ardent Health Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ardent Health Partners include Option Care Health (OPCH), Guardant Health (GH), RadNet (RDNT), BrightSpring Health Services (BTSG), Sotera Health (SHC), Privia Health Group (PRVA), Surgery Partners (SGRY), Concentra Group Holdings Parent (CON), Veracyte (VCYT), and LifeStance Health Group (LFST). These companies are all part of the "healthcare" industry.
Ardent Health Partners vs.
Option Care Health (NASDAQ:OPCH) and Ardent Health Partners (NYSE:ARDT) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Option Care Health has a net margin of 4.37% compared to Ardent Health Partners' net margin of 0.00%. Option Care Health's return on equity of 15.30% beat Ardent Health Partners' return on equity.
In the previous week, Option Care Health had 4 more articles in the media than Ardent Health Partners. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Option Care Health and 8 mentions for Ardent Health Partners. Option Care Health's average media sentiment score of 1.81 beat Ardent Health Partners' score of 0.96 indicating that Option Care Health is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Option Care Health has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Ardent Health Partners. Ardent Health Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Option Care Health, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Option Care Health received 38 more outperform votes than Ardent Health Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 89.66% of users gave Ardent Health Partners an outperform vote while only 64.00% of users gave Option Care Health an outperform vote.
Option Care Health presently has a consensus target price of $35.50, suggesting a potential upside of 8.53%. Ardent Health Partners has a consensus target price of $20.67, suggesting a potential upside of 37.96%. Given Ardent Health Partners' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Ardent Health Partners is more favorable than Option Care Health.
98.1% of Option Care Health shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Option Care Health shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Ardent Health Partners shares are owned by 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.
Summary
Option Care Health beats Ardent Health Partners on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:ARDT) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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