Medical Facilities (DR) Competitors

Medical Facilities (TSE:DR) and Extendicare (TSE:EXE) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, risk and media sentiment.

Do institutionals and insiders believe in DR or EXE?

10.9% of Medical Facilities shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.7% of Extendicare shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Medical Facilities shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.9% of Extendicare shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Do analysts prefer DR or EXE?

Extendicare has a consensus target price of C$14.15, indicating a potential upside of 6.55%. Given Extendicare's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Extendicare is more favorable than Medical Facilities.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Medical Facilities	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00
Extendicare	0 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.60

Is DR or EXE a better dividend stock?

Medical Facilities pays an annual dividend of C$0.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Extendicare pays an annual dividend of C$0.49 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Medical Facilities pays out 7.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Extendicare pays out 50.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.

Is DR or EXE more profitable?

Extendicare has a net margin of 4.48% compared to Medical Facilities' net margin of 4.43%. Extendicare's return on equity of 64.13% beat Medical Facilities' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Medical Facilities	4.43%	24.55%	13.60%
Extendicare	4.48%	64.13%	7.16%

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, DR or EXE?

Extendicare has higher revenue and earnings than Medical Facilities. Medical Facilities is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Extendicare, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Medical Facilities	C$330.17M	0.85	C$17.17M	C$3.40	4.37
Extendicare	C$1.51B	0.74	C$65.46M	C$0.97	13.76

Which has more volatility and risk, DR or EXE?

Medical Facilities has a beta of -0.039469, indicating that its stock price is 104% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Extendicare has a beta of 0.850678, indicating that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media prefer DR or EXE?

In the previous week, Medical Facilities and Medical Facilities both had 1 articles in the media. Extendicare's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat Medical Facilities' score of -0.24 indicating that Extendicare is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Medical Facilities	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Extendicare	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

Extendicare beats Medical Facilities on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.