ELV vs. UNH, CI, HUM, CNC, MOH, OSCR, ALHC, TRUP, CLOV, and NEUE
Should you be buying Elevance Health stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Elevance Health include UnitedHealth Group (UNH), The Cigna Group (CI), Humana (HUM), Centene (CNC), Molina Healthcare (MOH), Oscar Health (OSCR), Alignment Healthcare (ALHC), Trupanion (TRUP), Clover Health Investments (CLOV), and NeueHealth (NEUE). These companies are all part of the "hospital & medical service plans" industry.
Elevance Health vs.
Elevance Health (NYSE:ELV) and UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings and profitability.
In the previous week, UnitedHealth Group had 44 more articles in the media than Elevance Health. MarketBeat recorded 95 mentions for UnitedHealth Group and 51 mentions for Elevance Health. UnitedHealth Group's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Elevance Health's score of 0.55 indicating that UnitedHealth Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
UnitedHealth Group has higher revenue and earnings than Elevance Health. UnitedHealth Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Elevance Health, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
89.2% of Elevance Health shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.9% of UnitedHealth Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Elevance Health shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of UnitedHealth Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
UnitedHealth Group has a net margin of 3.60% compared to Elevance Health's net margin of 3.38%. UnitedHealth Group's return on equity of 26.69% beat Elevance Health's return on equity.
Elevance Health has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, UnitedHealth Group has a beta of 0.44, suggesting that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Elevance Health presently has a consensus target price of $498.87, suggesting a potential upside of 29.45%. UnitedHealth Group has a consensus target price of $428.43, suggesting a potential upside of 41.61%. Given UnitedHealth Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe UnitedHealth Group is more favorable than Elevance Health.
Elevance Health pays an annual dividend of $6.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. UnitedHealth Group pays an annual dividend of $8.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Elevance Health pays out 26.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. UnitedHealth Group pays out 37.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Elevance Health has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years and UnitedHealth Group has raised its dividend for 15 consecutive years. UnitedHealth Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
UnitedHealth Group received 870 more outperform votes than Elevance Health when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.41% of users gave UnitedHealth Group an outperform vote while only 67.30% of users gave Elevance Health an outperform vote.
Summary
UnitedHealth Group beats Elevance Health on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:ELV) was last updated on 6/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
