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MOH vs. CI, CNC, ELV, HCA, SEM, HUM, UNH, JYNT, AEMD, and DXCM

Should you be buying Molina Healthcare stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Molina Healthcare include Cigna Group (CI), Centene (CNC), Elevance Health (ELV), HCA Healthcare (HCA), Select Medical (SEM), Humana (HUM), UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Joint (JYNT), Aethlon Medical (AEMD), and DexCom (DXCM). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.

Molina Healthcare vs. Its Competitors

Molina Healthcare (NYSE:MOH) and Cigna Group (NYSE:CI) are both medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability and earnings.

98.5% of Molina Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.0% of Cigna Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Molina Healthcare shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Cigna Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Molina Healthcare has a net margin of 2.60% compared to Cigna Group's net margin of 1.92%. Molina Healthcare's return on equity of 27.72% beat Cigna Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Molina Healthcare2.60% 27.72% 7.88%
Cigna Group 1.92%18.80%5.02%

Molina Healthcare presently has a consensus target price of $244.55, suggesting a potential upside of 55.83%. Cigna Group has a consensus target price of $377.72, suggesting a potential upside of 37.34%. Given Molina Healthcare's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Molina Healthcare is more favorable than Cigna Group.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Molina Healthcare
0 Sell rating(s)
10 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.23
Cigna Group
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
16 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Cigna Group has higher revenue and earnings than Molina Healthcare. Molina Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cigna Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Molina Healthcare$43.41B0.20$1.18B$20.297.73
Cigna Group$247.12B0.30$3.43B$18.3215.01

Molina Healthcare has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cigna Group has a beta of 0.47, meaning that its share price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Cigna Group had 24 more articles in the media than Molina Healthcare. MarketBeat recorded 44 mentions for Cigna Group and 20 mentions for Molina Healthcare. Cigna Group's average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Molina Healthcare's score of 0.82 indicating that Cigna Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Molina Healthcare
9 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Cigna Group
28 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
6 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Cigna Group beats Molina Healthcare on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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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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MOH vs. The Competition

MetricMolina HealthcareMED IndustryMedical SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$8.51B$35.55B$5.45B$20.67B
Dividend YieldN/A67.97%3.99%3.69%
P/E Ratio7.738.9730.0428.52
Price / Sales0.200.69377.6066.66
Price / Cash5.837.9535.9423.60
Price / Book1.852.298.134.31
Net Income$1.18B$2.64B$3.25B$996.14M
7 Day Performance1.16%2.18%1.09%1.93%
1 Month Performance-32.02%-10.70%2.75%-0.54%
1 Year Performance-53.41%-38.07%28.40%14.77%

Molina Healthcare Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MOH
Molina Healthcare
4.9815 of 5 stars
$156.93
+1.2%
$244.55
+55.8%
-53.2%$8.51B$43.41B7.7318,000Insider Trade
CI
Cigna Group
5 of 5 stars
$292.24
-1.4%
$380.39
+30.2%
-17.9%$78.07B$254.47B16.1873,500Analyst Forecast
CNC
Centene
4.9542 of 5 stars
$26.87
-5.4%
$47.31
+76.1%
-66.3%$13.37B$163.07B6.6560,500Trending News
High Trading Volume
ELV
Elevance Health
4.9357 of 5 stars
$286.00
-1.1%
$418.19
+46.2%
-45.6%$64.40B$189.25B12.17104,200Positive News
HCA
HCA Healthcare
4.7429 of 5 stars
$340.31
+1.8%
$396.46
+16.5%
+5.9%$81.87B$70.60B14.30316,000Positive News
SEM
Select Medical
4.997 of 5 stars
$14.15
-0.8%
$26.00
+83.7%
-62.9%$1.82B$5.19B10.5644,100News Coverage
Dividend Announcement
HUM
Humana
4.4096 of 5 stars
$231.25
-2.8%
$282.43
+22.1%
-25.9%$27.91B$120.26B16.3565,680Positive News
UNH
UnitedHealth Group
4.9963 of 5 stars
$282.13
+0.4%
$392.29
+39.0%
-56.8%$255.93B$400.28B11.81400,000Trending News
Analyst Forecast
JYNT
Joint
3.6987 of 5 stars
$11.38
+0.2%
$15.50
+36.2%
-10.2%$174.15M$52.79M-19.62320News Coverage
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
AEMD
Aethlon Medical
1.2768 of 5 stars
$1.29
-3.0%
$56.00
+4,241.1%
-42.8%$3.34M$570K-0.1010Upcoming Earnings
DXCM
DexCom
4.9682 of 5 stars
$89.53
+0.6%
$98.72
+10.3%
+10.2%$35.11B$4.03B66.8110,300

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This page (NYSE:MOH) was last updated on 8/8/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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