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

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 Cencora (COR). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.

Molina Healthcare vs. Its Competitors

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

Cigna Group currently has a consensus price target of $380.39, suggesting a potential upside of 19.07%. Molina Healthcare has a consensus price target of $364.21, suggesting a potential upside of 52.07%. Given Molina Healthcare's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Molina Healthcare is more favorable than Cigna Group.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Cigna Group
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
16 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Molina Healthcare
0 Sell rating(s)
9 Hold rating(s)
7 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.44

Cigna Group has a beta of 0.44, indicating that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Molina Healthcare has a beta of 0.55, indicating that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.

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
Cigna Group$247.12B0.35$3.43B$18.0617.69
Molina Healthcare$40.65B0.32$1.18B$20.7111.56

In the previous week, Cigna Group had 12 more articles in the media than Molina Healthcare. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Cigna Group and 16 mentions for Molina Healthcare. Cigna Group's average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat Molina Healthcare's score of 0.92 indicating that Cigna Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.

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

Molina Healthcare has a net margin of 2.81% compared to Cigna Group's net margin of 1.97%. Molina Healthcare's return on equity of 28.38% beat Cigna Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Cigna Group1.97% 18.63% 4.97%
Molina Healthcare 2.81%28.38%8.30%

87.0% of Cigna Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.5% of Molina Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Cigna Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Molina Healthcare shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Cigna Group beats Molina Healthcare on 9 of the 17 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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MOH vs. The Competition

MetricMolina HealthcareMED IndustryMedical SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$12.99B$42.59B$5.50B$20.64B
Dividend YieldN/A119.22%5.38%3.74%
P/E Ratio11.569.4327.6028.10
Price / Sales0.320.79368.8154.14
Price / Cash9.179.2536.6322.31
Price / Book3.052.718.054.59
Net Income$1.18B$2.64B$3.18B$986.06M
7 Day Performance-19.24%-6.34%2.82%2.79%
1 Month Performance-18.11%-11.06%3.70%5.42%
1 Year Performance-19.19%-30.33%35.41%14.63%

Molina Healthcare Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MOH
Molina Healthcare
4.9895 of 5 stars
$239.51
+0.2%
$364.21
+52.1%
-19.1%$12.99B$40.65B11.5618,000
CI
Cigna Group
4.9737 of 5 stars
$330.12
+1.2%
$380.39
+15.2%
-1.7%$88.19B$254.47B18.2871,300Positive News
High Trading Volume
CNC
Centene
4.9812 of 5 stars
$54.22
+0.4%
$77.71
+43.3%
-50.2%$26.98B$163.07B8.0874,300Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Options Volume
Analyst Revision
ELV
Elevance Health
4.9728 of 5 stars
$389.42
+2.1%
$498.87
+28.1%
-34.2%$87.98B$183.12B15.19102,300
HCA
HCA Healthcare
4.8244 of 5 stars
$383.21
+1.0%
$395.71
+3.3%
+14.3%$92.19B$70.60B17.04294,000
SEM
Select Medical
5 of 5 stars
$15.19
-0.5%
$26.00
+71.2%
-57.8%$1.95B$5.19B11.3444,100
HUM
Humana
4.651 of 5 stars
$244.30
+1.0%
$280.76
+14.9%
-34.2%$29.49B$120.26B17.2867,100Trending News
Analyst Revision
UNH
UnitedHealth Group
4.9977 of 5 stars
$311.89
+0.9%
$415.57
+33.2%
-37.0%$282.93B$400.28B13.06400,000Positive News
Options Volume
JYNT
Joint
3.5654 of 5 stars
$11.54
+1.1%
$15.50
+34.3%
-12.3%$176.60M$52.79M-19.90320
AEMD
Aethlon Medical
3.0221 of 5 stars
$1.20
-4.0%
$56.00
+4,566.7%
-60.3%$3.11M$570K-0.0910Analyst Revision
COR
Cencora
4.6759 of 5 stars
$299.48
+0.0%
$306.33
+2.3%
+33.1%$58.05B$293.96B34.7442,000Positive News
Analyst Revision

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