EHTH vs. FANH, GOCO, HUIZ, SLQT, RDZN, BANX, FRAF, VABK, FINW, and PWOD
Should you be buying eHealth stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of eHealth include Fanhua (FANH), GoHealth (GOCO), Huize (HUIZ), SelectQuote (SLQT), Roadzen (RDZN), ArrowMark Financial (BANX), Franklin Financial Services (FRAF), Virginia National Bankshares (VABK), FinWise Bancorp (FINW), and Penns Woods Bancorp (PWOD). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Fanhua (NASDAQ:FANH) and eHealth (NASDAQ:EHTH) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends and valuation.
eHealth received 249 more outperform votes than Fanhua when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.19% of users gave eHealth an outperform vote while only 54.69% of users gave Fanhua an outperform vote.
eHealth has a consensus target price of $10.00, suggesting a potential upside of 125.23%. Given Fanhua's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe eHealth is more favorable than Fanhua.
26.7% of Fanhua shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.5% of eHealth shares are owned by institutional investors. 25.6% of Fanhua shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of eHealth shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Fanhua has a beta of -0.1, indicating that its stock price is 110% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, eHealth has a beta of 0.4, indicating that its stock price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Fanhua has a net margin of 8.67% compared to Fanhua's net margin of -6.23%. eHealth's return on equity of 12.11% beat Fanhua's return on equity.
Fanhua has higher earnings, but lower revenue than eHealth. eHealth is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fanhua, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, eHealth had 1 more articles in the media than Fanhua. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for eHealth and 2 mentions for Fanhua. Fanhua's average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat eHealth's score of 0.35 indicating that eHealth is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Fanhua and eHealth tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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