THC vs. UHS, SGRY, SWAV, QGEN, CTLT, CHE, BIO, HSIC, BIO.B, and TFX
Should you be buying Tenet Healthcare stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tenet Healthcare include Universal Health Services (UHS), Surgery Partners (SGRY), Shockwave Medical (SWAV), Qiagen (QGEN), Catalent (CTLT), Chemed (CHE), Bio-Rad Laboratories (BIO), Henry Schein (HSIC), Bio-Rad Laboratories (BIO.B), and Teleflex (TFX). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Tenet Healthcare (NYSE:THC) and Universal Health Services (NYSE:UHS) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, valuation, community ranking and profitability.
In the previous week, Universal Health Services had 7 more articles in the media than Tenet Healthcare. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Universal Health Services and 10 mentions for Tenet Healthcare. Universal Health Services' average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Tenet Healthcare's score of 0.73 indicating that Universal Health Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Universal Health Services has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Tenet Healthcare. Universal Health Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tenet Healthcare, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Universal Health Services has a net margin of 5.03% compared to Tenet Healthcare's net margin of 2.97%. Tenet Healthcare's return on equity of 26.34% beat Universal Health Services' return on equity.
Tenet Healthcare presently has a consensus target price of $95.27, indicating a potential downside of 5.09%. Universal Health Services has a consensus target price of $174.64, indicating a potential downside of 1.44%. Given Universal Health Services' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Universal Health Services is more favorable than Tenet Healthcare.
Tenet Healthcare has a beta of 2.07, meaning that its stock price is 107% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Universal Health Services has a beta of 1.23, meaning that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Tenet Healthcare received 26 more outperform votes than Universal Health Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.85% of users gave Universal Health Services an outperform vote while only 59.46% of users gave Tenet Healthcare an outperform vote.
93.6% of Tenet Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.1% of Universal Health Services shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of Tenet Healthcare shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 15.4% of Universal Health Services shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Universal Health Services beats Tenet Healthcare on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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