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$7.34 -0.06 (-0.74%)
Closing price 08/14/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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BKD vs. ACHC, SEM, USPH, WOOF, CYH, HCA, ALC, THC, EHC, and UHS

Should you be buying Brookdale Senior Living stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookdale Senior Living include Acadia Healthcare (ACHC), Select Medical (SEM), U.S. Physical Therapy (USPH), Petco Health and Wellness (WOOF), 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.

Brookdale Senior Living vs. Its Competitors

Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE:BKD) and Acadia Healthcare (NASDAQ:ACHC) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

Brookdale Senior Living presently has a consensus price target of $7.80, suggesting a potential upside of 6.34%. Acadia Healthcare has a consensus price target of $40.77, suggesting a potential upside of 97.35%. Given Acadia Healthcare's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Acadia Healthcare is more favorable than Brookdale Senior Living.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Brookdale Senior Living
1 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.40
Acadia Healthcare
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
9 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.69

In the previous week, Acadia Healthcare had 11 more articles in the media than Brookdale Senior Living. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Acadia Healthcare and 10 mentions for Brookdale Senior Living. Brookdale Senior Living's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat Acadia Healthcare's score of 0.26 indicating that Brookdale Senior Living is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Brookdale Senior Living
4 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Acadia Healthcare
6 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
6 Neutral mention(s)
6 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Brookdale Senior Living has a beta of 0.87, meaning that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Acadia Healthcare has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Acadia Healthcare has a net margin of 4.31% compared to Brookdale Senior Living's net margin of -7.60%. Acadia Healthcare's return on equity of 8.34% beat Brookdale Senior Living's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Brookdale Senior Living-7.60% -107.19% -3.32%
Acadia Healthcare 4.31%8.34%4.20%

Acadia Healthcare has higher revenue and earnings than Brookdale Senior Living. Brookdale Senior Living 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
Brookdale Senior Living$3.13B0.55-$201.93M-$1.05-6.99
Acadia Healthcare$3.15B0.60$255.61M$1.5113.68

Summary

Acadia Healthcare beats Brookdale Senior Living on 13 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding BKD and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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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BKD vs. The Competition

MetricBrookdale Senior LivingMED IndustryMedical SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$1.73B$3.26B$5.61B$21.04B
Dividend YieldN/A1.25%4.61%3.57%
P/E Ratio-6.9911.4930.2728.08
Price / Sales0.551.12469.9557.05
Price / Cash8.8915.6138.2123.95
Price / Book15.955.608.845.26
Net Income-$201.93M$38.94M$3.25B$994.11M
7 Day Performance1.66%3.11%3.71%2.09%
1 Month Performance-5.99%4.63%5.85%2.35%
1 Year Performance5.24%-3.00%30.25%13.36%

Brookdale Senior Living Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BKD
Brookdale Senior Living
3.0229 of 5 stars
$7.34
-0.7%
$7.80
+6.3%
+5.3%$1.73B$3.13B-6.9936,000
ACHC
Acadia Healthcare
4.7213 of 5 stars
$21.37
+1.3%
$47.94
+124.4%
-71.6%$1.94B$3.15B10.5325,500Analyst Forecast
Gap Down
SEM
Select Medical
4.9944 of 5 stars
$11.97
-4.8%
$24.60
+105.5%
-60.6%$1.62B$5.19B11.2944,100High Trading Volume
USPH
U.S. Physical Therapy
3.5369 of 5 stars
$70.35
+0.5%
$109.00
+54.9%
+5.5%$1.06B$671.34M32.277,028Insider Trade
Short Interest ↑
Analyst Revision
WOOF
Petco Health and Wellness
2.0643 of 5 stars
$2.94
+0.7%
$3.75
+27.5%
+48.1%$920.17M$6.12B-12.2529,000
CYH
Community Health Systems
4.1504 of 5 stars
$2.50
+2.3%
$3.74
+50.0%
-44.8%$341.89M$12.63B-1.6760,000Analyst Forecast
HCA
HCA Healthcare
4.7199 of 5 stars
$363.11
+1.7%
$395.69
+9.0%
+6.0%$85.88B$70.60B15.26316,000Trending News
Analyst Forecast
ALC
Alcon
2.5553 of 5 stars
$87.75
-0.1%
$106.13
+20.9%
-7.2%$43.34B$9.93B39.0025,599Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
THC
Tenet Healthcare
4.9275 of 5 stars
$161.01
+1.8%
$191.56
+19.0%
+12.0%$13.97B$20.67B10.3198,000Analyst Forecast
EHC
Encompass Health
4.886 of 5 stars
$109.46
+0.9%
$131.50
+20.1%
+37.6%$10.94B$5.37B22.6240,000Positive News
Analyst Forecast
UHS
Universal Health Services
4.9824 of 5 stars
$164.91
+1.2%
$216.54
+31.3%
-19.4%$10.59B$15.83B8.6899,000Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision

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This page (NYSE:BKD) was last updated on 8/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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