PHG vs. HOLX, GEHC, ICLR, BMRN, MOH, COO, LH, STE, RVTY, and EXAS
Should you be buying Koninklijke Philips stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Koninklijke Philips include Hologic (HOLX), GE HealthCare Technologies (GEHC), ICON Public (ICLR), BioMarin Pharmaceutical (BMRN), Molina Healthcare (MOH), Cooper Companies (COO), Laboratory Co. of America (LH), STERIS (STE), Revvity (RVTY), and Exact Sciences (EXAS). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Koninklijke Philips vs.
Hologic (NASDAQ:HOLX) and Koninklijke Philips (NYSE:PHG) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and media sentiment.
Hologic has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Koninklijke Philips. Koninklijke Philips is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hologic, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hologic currently has a consensus target price of $86.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.82%. Koninklijke Philips has a consensus target price of $16.79, indicating a potential downside of 13.79%. Given Hologic's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Hologic is more favorable than Koninklijke Philips.
Hologic has a net margin of 18.56% compared to Koninklijke Philips' net margin of -11.63%. Hologic's return on equity of 19.39% beat Koninklijke Philips' return on equity.
Hologic received 468 more outperform votes than Koninklijke Philips when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.01% of users gave Hologic an outperform vote while only 56.99% of users gave Koninklijke Philips an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Hologic had 3 more articles in the media than Koninklijke Philips. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Hologic and 5 mentions for Koninklijke Philips. Hologic's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Koninklijke Philips' score of 0.87 indicating that Hologic is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Hologic has a beta of 1, suggesting that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Koninklijke Philips has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
95.2% of Hologic shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.2% of Koninklijke Philips shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Hologic shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Hologic beats Koninklijke Philips on 17 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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