USPH vs. PRVA, LFST, PNTG, INNV, TALK, DVAX, INMD, EYE, PTGX, and EWTX
Should you be buying U.S. Physical Therapy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of U.S. Physical Therapy include Privia Health Group (PRVA), LifeStance Health Group (LFST), The Pennant Group (PNTG), InnovAge (INNV), Talkspace (TALK), Dynavax Technologies (DVAX), InMode (INMD), National Vision (EYE), Protagonist Therapeutics (PTGX), and Edgewise Therapeutics (EWTX). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Privia Health Group (NASDAQ:PRVA) and U.S. Physical Therapy (NYSE:USPH) are both medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations and valuation.
U.S. Physical Therapy has a net margin of 4.67% compared to U.S. Physical Therapy's net margin of 1.39%. Privia Health Group's return on equity of 8.52% beat U.S. Physical Therapy's return on equity.
Privia Health Group currently has a consensus price target of $27.92, indicating a potential upside of 48.49%. U.S. Physical Therapy has a consensus price target of $125.67, indicating a potential upside of 21.41%. Given U.S. Physical Therapy's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Privia Health Group is more favorable than U.S. Physical Therapy.
Privia Health Group has a beta of 0.81, indicating that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, U.S. Physical Therapy has a beta of 1.39, indicating that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Privia Health Group had 5 more articles in the media than U.S. Physical Therapy. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Privia Health Group and 3 mentions for U.S. Physical Therapy. U.S. Physical Therapy's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Privia Health Group's score of 0.67 indicating that Privia Health Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
U.S. Physical Therapy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Privia Health Group. U.S. Physical Therapy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Privia Health Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
94.5% of Privia Health Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.2% of Privia Health Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of U.S. Physical Therapy shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
U.S. Physical Therapy received 194 more outperform votes than Privia Health Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.22% of users gave Privia Health Group an outperform vote while only 56.04% of users gave U.S. Physical Therapy an outperform vote.
Summary
Privia Health Group and U.S. Physical Therapy tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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