UHS vs. THC, SGRY, RDY, RXDX, OSH, UTHR, NBIX, RGEN, HSIC, and INSP
Should you be buying Universal Health Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Universal Health Services include Tenet Healthcare (THC), Surgery Partners (SGRY), Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (RDY), Prometheus Biosciences (RXDX), Oak Street Health (OSH), United Therapeutics (UTHR), Neurocrine Biosciences (NBIX), Repligen (RGEN), Henry Schein (HSIC), and Inspire Medical Systems (INSP). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Universal Health Services vs.
Tenet Healthcare (NYSE:THC) and Universal Health Services (NYSE:UHS) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation and media sentiment.
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.
Tenet Healthcare presently has a consensus target price of $75.76, suggesting a potential upside of 10.14%. Universal Health Services has a consensus target price of $139.50, suggesting a potential upside of 8.85%. Given Tenet Healthcare's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Tenet Healthcare is more favorable than Universal Health Services.
In the previous week, Universal Health Services had 2 more articles in the media than Tenet Healthcare. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Universal Health Services and 7 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.
Tenet Healthcare has a beta of 2.18, suggesting that its share price is 118% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Universal Health Services has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Tenet Healthcare received 15 more outperform votes than Universal Health Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.74% of users gave Universal Health Services an outperform vote while only 59.18% of users gave Tenet Healthcare an outperform vote.
98.1% of Tenet Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.2% of Universal Health Services shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Tenet Healthcare shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 16.6% 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.
Universal Health Services has a net margin of 5.05% compared to Tenet Healthcare's net margin of 2.13%. Tenet Healthcare's return on equity of 28.65% beat Universal Health Services' return on equity.
Summary
Tenet Healthcare beats Universal Health Services on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding UHS and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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