CAH vs. COR, MCK, ICLR, ZBH, ALGN, RMD, ARGX, BIIB, WST, and MOH
Should you be buying Cardinal Health stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cardinal Health include Cencora (COR), McKesson (MCK), ICON Public (ICLR), Zimmer Biomet (ZBH), Align Technology (ALGN), ResMed (RMD), argenx (ARGX), Biogen (BIIB), West Pharmaceutical Services (WST), and Molina Healthcare (MOH). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Cencora (NYSE:COR) and Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, community ranking, dividends and institutional ownership.
Cencora has a net margin of 0.69% compared to Cencora's net margin of 0.30%. Cardinal Health's return on equity of 323.23% beat Cencora's return on equity.
Cencora presently has a consensus target price of $218.22, indicating a potential downside of 8.21%. Cardinal Health has a consensus target price of $103.07, indicating a potential downside of 0.29%. Given Cencora's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Cardinal Health is more favorable than Cencora.
Cencora has higher revenue and earnings than Cardinal Health. Cencora is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cardinal Health, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cardinal Health received 163 more outperform votes than Cencora when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.66% of users gave Cardinal Health an outperform vote while only 65.03% of users gave Cencora an outperform vote.
97.5% of Cencora shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.2% of Cardinal Health shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.8% of Cencora shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Cardinal Health shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Cencora has a beta of 0.45, indicating that its share price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cardinal Health has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Cardinal Health had 18 more articles in the media than Cencora. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Cardinal Health and 14 mentions for Cencora. Cencora's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Cardinal Health's score of 0.02 indicating that Cardinal Health is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Cencora pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Cardinal Health pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Cencora pays out 22.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cardinal Health pays out 78.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Cencora has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Cardinal Health has increased its dividend for 27 consecutive years. Cardinal Health is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Cencora beats Cardinal Health on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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