THC vs. UHS, SGRY, TFX, BIO.B, TECH, CTLT, SNN, CHE, RGEN, and HSIC
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), Teleflex (TFX), Bio-Rad Laboratories (BIO.B), Bio-Techne (TECH), Catalent (CTLT), Smith & Nephew (SNN), Chemed (CHE), Repligen (RGEN), and Henry Schein (HSIC). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Tenet Healthcare (NYSE:THC) and Universal Health Services (NYSE:UHS) are both medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, valuation and community ranking.
Tenet Healthcare has a beta of 2.08, indicating that its share price is 108% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Universal Health Services has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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 5.57% 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 $100.38, suggesting a potential upside of 5.25%. Universal Health Services has a consensus target price of $180.60, suggesting a potential upside of 10.91%. Given Universal Health Services' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Universal Health Services is more favorable than Tenet Healthcare.
Tenet Healthcare received 28 more outperform votes than Universal Health Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.71% of users gave Universal Health Services an outperform vote while only 59.61% of users gave Tenet Healthcare an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Universal Health Services had 14 more articles in the media than Tenet Healthcare. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Universal Health Services and 12 mentions for Tenet Healthcare. Tenet Healthcare's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Universal Health Services' score of 0.58 indicating that Tenet Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the media.
95.4% of Tenet Healthcare shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.1% of Universal Health Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Tenet Healthcare shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 16.1% of Universal Health Services shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Tenet Healthcare beats Universal Health Services on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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