ALHC vs. HCSG, CYRX, PRVA, CLOV, FDMT, GYRE, AGTI, VIR, GMTX, and BKD
Should you be buying Alignment Healthcare stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alignment Healthcare include Healthcare Services Group (HCSG), Cryoport (CYRX), Privia Health Group (PRVA), Clover Health Investments (CLOV), 4D Molecular Therapeutics (FDMT), Gyre Therapeutics (GYRE), Agiliti (AGTI), Vir Biotechnology (VIR), Gemini Therapeutics (GMTX), and Brookdale Senior Living (BKD).
Healthcare Services Group (NASDAQ:HCSG) and Alignment Healthcare (NASDAQ:ALHC) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, dividends, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Healthcare Services Group received 251 more outperform votes than Alignment Healthcare when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.81% of users gave Alignment Healthcare an outperform vote while only 55.95% of users gave Healthcare Services Group an outperform vote.
Healthcare Services Group has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alignment Healthcare has a beta of 1.23, meaning that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Healthcare Services Group has a net margin of 2.44% compared to Healthcare Services Group's net margin of -7.81%. Alignment Healthcare's return on equity of 11.44% beat Healthcare Services Group's return on equity.
Healthcare Services Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Alignment Healthcare. Alignment Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Healthcare Services Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Healthcare Services Group currently has a consensus target price of $14.50, indicating a potential upside of 25.65%. Alignment Healthcare has a consensus target price of $8.69, indicating a potential upside of 19.76%. Given Alignment Healthcare's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Healthcare Services Group is more favorable than Alignment Healthcare.
98.0% of Healthcare Services Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.2% of Alignment Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Healthcare Services Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.3% of Alignment Healthcare shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Healthcare Services Group and Healthcare Services Group both had 2 articles in the media. Healthcare Services Group's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat Alignment Healthcare's score of 1.14 indicating that Alignment Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Healthcare Services Group and Alignment Healthcare tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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