CVS vs. AMZN, CI, HUM, UNH, WMT, DHR, ELV, COR, LH, and NTRA
Should you be buying CVS Health stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CVS Health include Amazon.com (AMZN), Cigna Group (CI), Humana (HUM), UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Walmart (WMT), Danaher (DHR), Elevance Health (ELV), Cencora (COR), Labcorp (LH), and Natera (NTRA).
CVS Health vs. Its Competitors
CVS Health (NYSE:CVS) and Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) are related large-cap companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.
CVS Health currently has a consensus target price of $79.80, suggesting a potential upside of 1.66%. Amazon.com has a consensus target price of $266.26, suggesting a potential upside of 20.99%. Given Amazon.com's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Amazon.com is more favorable than CVS Health.
80.7% of CVS Health shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.2% of Amazon.com shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of CVS Health shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.8% of Amazon.com shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Amazon.com had 179 more articles in the media than CVS Health. MarketBeat recorded 221 mentions for Amazon.com and 42 mentions for CVS Health. CVS Health's average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat Amazon.com's score of 1.06 indicating that CVS Health is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Amazon.com has a net margin of 10.54% compared to CVS Health's net margin of 1.17%. Amazon.com's return on equity of 23.84% beat CVS Health's return on equity.
Amazon.com has higher revenue and earnings than CVS Health. CVS Health is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Amazon.com, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CVS Health has a beta of 0.6, meaning that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amazon.com has a beta of 1.28, meaning that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Amazon.com beats CVS Health on 15 of the 17 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 CVS and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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:CVS) was last updated on 10/14/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
