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ELV vs. CNC, MOH, UNH, CI, HUM, DHR, CVS, COR, NTRA, and LH

Should you be buying Elevance Health stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Elevance Health include Centene (CNC), Molina Healthcare (MOH), UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Cigna Group (CI), Humana (HUM), Danaher (DHR), CVS Health (CVS), Cencora (COR), Natera (NTRA), and Labcorp (LH). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.

Elevance Health vs. Its Competitors

Centene (NYSE:CNC) and Elevance Health (NYSE:ELV) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability and risk.

Centene presently has a consensus target price of $58.63, suggesting a potential upside of 109.75%. Elevance Health has a consensus target price of $435.93, suggesting a potential upside of 57.45%. Given Centene's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Centene is more favorable than Elevance Health.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Centene
1 Sell rating(s)
11 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.28
Elevance Health
0 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
12 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.71

93.6% of Centene shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.2% of Elevance Health shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Centene shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Elevance Health shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Elevance Health has a net margin of 2.83% compared to Centene's net margin of 2.04%. Elevance Health's return on equity of 17.59% beat Centene's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Centene2.04% 14.56% 4.75%
Elevance Health 2.83%17.59%6.36%

Centene has a beta of 0.44, suggesting that its share price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Elevance Health has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Centene had 5 more articles in the media than Elevance Health. MarketBeat recorded 87 mentions for Centene and 82 mentions for Elevance Health. Elevance Health's average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat Centene's score of 0.07 indicating that Elevance Health is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Centene
9 Very Positive mention(s)
9 Positive mention(s)
53 Neutral mention(s)
12 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Elevance Health
36 Very Positive mention(s)
7 Positive mention(s)
16 Neutral mention(s)
10 Negative mention(s)
2 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Elevance Health has higher revenue and earnings than Centene. Centene is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Elevance Health, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Centene$163.07B0.09$3.31B$6.714.17
Elevance Health$189.25B0.33$5.98B$23.5011.78

Summary

Elevance Health beats Centene on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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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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ELV vs. The Competition

MetricElevance HealthMedical Services IndustryMedical SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$68.33B$6.98B$5.54B$20.84B
Dividend Yield1.99%2.87%3.75%3.65%
P/E Ratio11.7826.7928.0127.55
Price / Sales0.3336.55434.8158.79
Price / Cash7.7228.0836.1622.29
Price / Book1.439.018.124.66
Net Income$5.98B$233.10M$3.25B$994.58M
7 Day Performance-18.58%-1.05%1.64%-0.29%
1 Month Performance-26.28%0.67%7.27%4.90%
1 Year Performance-44.64%23.63%32.88%11.14%

Elevance Health Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ELV
Elevance Health
4.9742 of 5 stars
$276.87
-8.5%
$435.93
+57.5%
-45.1%$68.33B$189.25B11.78104,200Trending News
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
Analyst Revision
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
CNC
Centene
4.9649 of 5 stars
$30.61
-2.6%
$64.75
+111.5%
-57.5%$15.23B$169.28B4.5660,500Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
MOH
Molina Healthcare
4.9901 of 5 stars
$219.08
-1.1%
$352.21
+60.8%
-36.6%$11.87B$41.87B10.5818,000Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
UNH
UnitedHealth Group
4.9977 of 5 stars
$300.37
-1.2%
$415.00
+38.2%
-50.0%$272.48B$410.06B12.58400,000Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
CI
Cigna Group
4.9985 of 5 stars
$302.92
-0.1%
$380.39
+25.6%
-13.3%$80.92B$247.12B16.7773,500Positive News
Analyst Downgrade
HUM
Humana
4.8752 of 5 stars
$227.13
-1.5%
$280.76
+23.6%
-43.4%$27.41B$117.76B16.0665,680Trending News
Analyst Forecast
DHR
Danaher
4.9626 of 5 stars
$197.69
-3.5%
$248.43
+25.7%
-22.4%$141.48B$23.88B38.3963,000Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
CVS
CVS Health
4.997 of 5 stars
$64.36
-0.6%
$75.38
+17.1%
+3.4%$81.42B$378.96B15.36300,000Positive News
COR
Cencora
4.4819 of 5 stars
$297.00
+0.6%
$306.33
+3.1%
+30.9%$57.57B$638.56M34.4546,000Positive News
Analyst Forecast
NTRA
Natera
2.9454 of 5 stars
$158.16
-1.4%
$184.63
+16.7%
+37.3%$21.60B$1.83B-107.594,434Positive News
LH
Labcorp
4.5629 of 5 stars
$249.77
+0.1%
$276.38
+10.7%
+13.5%$20.91B$13.01B28.8770,000Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast

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