EHC vs. THC, UHS, ENSG, ACHC, SEM, BKD, USPH, WOOF, CYH, and HCA
Should you be buying Encompass Health stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Encompass Health include Tenet Healthcare (THC), Universal Health Services (UHS), The Ensign Group (ENSG), Acadia Healthcare (ACHC), Select Medical (SEM), Brookdale Senior Living (BKD), U.S. Physical Therapy (USPH), Petco Health and Wellness (WOOF), Community Health Systems (CYH), and HCA Healthcare (HCA). These companies are all part of the "health care facilities" industry.
Tenet Healthcare (NYSE:THC) and Encompass Health (NYSE:EHC) are both medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, valuation, risk, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Tenet Healthcare has higher revenue and earnings than Encompass Health. Tenet Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Encompass Health, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Tenet Healthcare has a net margin of 13.17% compared to Tenet Healthcare's net margin of 7.60%. Encompass Health's return on equity of 24.66% beat Tenet Healthcare's return on equity.
95.4% of Tenet Healthcare shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.3% of Encompass Health shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Tenet Healthcare shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Encompass Health shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Tenet Healthcare presently has a consensus target price of $137.12, suggesting a potential downside of 9.59%. Encompass Health has a consensus target price of $96.50, suggesting a potential upside of 5.30%. Given Tenet Healthcare's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Encompass Health is more favorable than Tenet Healthcare.
Tenet Healthcare received 173 more outperform votes than Encompass Health when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.08% of users gave Encompass Health an outperform vote while only 60.33% of users gave Tenet Healthcare an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Tenet Healthcare had 37 more articles in the media than Encompass Health. MarketBeat recorded 46 mentions for Tenet Healthcare and 9 mentions for Encompass Health. Tenet Healthcare's average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Encompass Health's score of 0.77 indicating that Encompass Health is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Tenet Healthcare has a beta of 2.15, indicating that its share price is 115% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Encompass Health has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Tenet Healthcare and Encompass Health tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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