ELV vs. CI, HUM, CNC, MOH, UNH, 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 The Cigna Group (CI), Humana (HUM), Centene (CNC), Molina Healthcare (MOH), UnitedHealth Group (UNH), 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 (NYSE:ELV) and The Cigna Group (NYSE:CI) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.
Elevance Health has higher earnings, but lower revenue than The Cigna Group. Elevance Health is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than The Cigna Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Elevance Health has a beta of 0.84, suggesting that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, The Cigna Group has a beta of 0.52, suggesting that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Elevance Health had 19 more articles in the media than The Cigna Group. MarketBeat recorded 38 mentions for Elevance Health and 19 mentions for The Cigna Group. The Cigna Group's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Elevance Health's score of 0.35 indicating that The Cigna Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Elevance Health currently has a consensus target price of $604.29, indicating a potential upside of 14.55%. The Cigna Group has a consensus target price of $376.20, indicating a potential upside of 9.48%. Given Elevance Health's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Elevance Health is more favorable than The Cigna Group.
Elevance Health has a net margin of 3.89% compared to The Cigna Group's net margin of 1.76%. Elevance Health's return on equity of 20.64% beat The Cigna Group's return on equity.
The Cigna Group received 90 more outperform votes than Elevance Health when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.08% of users gave The Cigna Group an outperform vote while only 67.01% of users gave Elevance Health an outperform vote.
89.2% of Elevance Health shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.0% of The Cigna Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Elevance Health shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of The Cigna Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Elevance Health pays an annual dividend of $6.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. The Cigna Group pays an annual dividend of $5.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Elevance Health pays out 24.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. The Cigna Group pays out 46.0% 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.
Summary
Elevance Health beats The Cigna Group on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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