SHC vs. GH, OPCH, RDNT, BTSG, SGRY, PRVA, CON, ADUS, VCYT, and LFST
Should you be buying Sotera Health stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sotera Health include Guardant Health (GH), Option Care Health (OPCH), RadNet (RDNT), BrightSpring Health Services (BTSG), Surgery Partners (SGRY), Privia Health Group (PRVA), Concentra Group Holdings Parent (CON), Addus HomeCare (ADUS), Veracyte (VCYT), and LifeStance Health Group (LFST). These companies are all part of the "healthcare" industry.
Sotera Health vs. Its Competitors
Sotera Health (NASDAQ:SHC) and Guardant Health (NASDAQ:GH) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings and analyst recommendations.
91.0% of Sotera Health shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.6% of Guardant Health shares are owned by institutional investors. 55.1% of Sotera Health shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.1% of Guardant Health shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Sotera Health currently has a consensus price target of $16.00, indicating a potential upside of 42.35%. Guardant Health has a consensus price target of $53.76, indicating a potential upside of 7.55%. Given Sotera Health's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Sotera Health is more favorable than Guardant Health.
Guardant Health received 252 more outperform votes than Sotera Health when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.83% of users gave Guardant Health an outperform vote while only 58.70% of users gave Sotera Health an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Guardant Health had 5 more articles in the media than Sotera Health. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Guardant Health and 4 mentions for Sotera Health. Sotera Health's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Guardant Health's score of 0.67 indicating that Sotera Health is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sotera Health has a net margin of 2.24% compared to Guardant Health's net margin of -53.82%. Sotera Health's return on equity of 41.08% beat Guardant Health's return on equity.
Sotera Health has a beta of 1.87, suggesting that its stock price is 87% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Guardant Health has a beta of 1.37, suggesting that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sotera Health has higher revenue and earnings than Guardant Health. Guardant Health is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sotera Health, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Sotera Health beats Guardant Health on 11 of the 18 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 NASDAQ 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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This page (NASDAQ:SHC) was last updated on 6/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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