UHS vs. THC, SGRY, UTHR, SRPT, NTRA, SOLV, SNN, EXAS, INCY, and PODD
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), United Therapeutics (UTHR), Sarepta Therapeutics (SRPT), Natera (NTRA), NYSE:SOLV (SOLV), Smith & Nephew (SNN), Exact Sciences (EXAS), Incyte (INCY), and Insulet (PODD). 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 investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.
Tenet Healthcare currently has a consensus price target of $100.38, suggesting a potential upside of 2.95%. Universal Health Services has a consensus price target of $180.07, suggesting a potential upside of 9.07%. Given Tenet Healthcare's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Universal Health Services is more favorable than Tenet Healthcare.
Universal Health Services has a net margin of 5.03% compared to Universal Health Services' net margin of 2.97%. Universal Health Services' return on equity of 26.34% beat Tenet Healthcare's return on equity.
Tenet Healthcare received 28 more outperform votes than Universal Health Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.78% of users gave Universal Health Services an outperform vote while only 59.61% of users gave Tenet Healthcare an outperform vote.
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 has a beta of 2.08, meaning that its share price is 108% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Universal Health Services has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Universal Health Services had 7 more articles in the media than Tenet Healthcare. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Universal Health Services and 11 mentions for Tenet Healthcare. Universal Health Services' average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat Tenet Healthcare's score of 0.57 indicating that Tenet Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the media.
95.4% of Tenet Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.1% of Universal Health Services shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Tenet Healthcare shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.1% of Universal Health Services shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Tenet Healthcare beats Universal Health Services on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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