PDCO vs. OMI, HSIC, AMN, IART, AGL, STAA, VCEL, LFST, DNLI, and TNDM
Should you be buying Patterson Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Patterson Companies include Owens & Minor (OMI), Henry Schein (HSIC), AMN Healthcare Services (AMN), Integra LifeSciences (IART), agilon health (AGL), STAAR Surgical (STAA), Vericel (VCEL), LifeStance Health Group (LFST), Denali Therapeutics (DNLI), and Tandem Diabetes Care (TNDM). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Patterson Companies (NASDAQ:PDCO) and Owens & Minor (NYSE:OMI) are both medical companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, media sentiment, dividends and profitability.
Patterson Companies has a beta of 1.07, suggesting that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Owens & Minor has a beta of 0.52, suggesting that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Patterson Companies has a net margin of 2.95% compared to Owens & Minor's net margin of -0.40%. Patterson Companies' return on equity of 20.98% beat Owens & Minor's return on equity.
Patterson Companies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Owens & Minor. Owens & Minor is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Patterson Companies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Patterson Companies received 110 more outperform votes than Owens & Minor when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 52.41% of users gave Patterson Companies an outperform vote while only 48.73% of users gave Owens & Minor an outperform vote.
Patterson Companies presently has a consensus target price of $32.56, suggesting a potential upside of 28.02%. Owens & Minor has a consensus target price of $23.86, suggesting a potential downside of 2.78%. Given Patterson Companies' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Patterson Companies is more favorable than Owens & Minor.
85.4% of Patterson Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.0% of Owens & Minor shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Patterson Companies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.6% of Owens & Minor shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Patterson Companies had 1 more articles in the media than Owens & Minor. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Patterson Companies and 11 mentions for Owens & Minor. Owens & Minor's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Patterson Companies' score of 0.12 indicating that Owens & Minor is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Patterson Companies beats Owens & Minor on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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