SGRY vs. CYH, UHS, THC, RARE, PBH, AXNX, LIVN, AXSM, BHVN, and SWTX
Should you be buying Surgery Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Surgery Partners include Community Health Systems (CYH), Universal Health Services (UHS), Tenet Healthcare (THC), Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical (RARE), Prestige Consumer Healthcare (PBH), Axonics (AXNX), LivaNova (LIVN), Axsome Therapeutics (AXSM), Biohaven (BHVN), and SpringWorks Therapeutics (SWTX). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Community Health Systems (NYSE:CYH) and Surgery Partners (NASDAQ:SGRY) are both medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability and media sentiment.
Community Health Systems presently has a consensus target price of $4.05, indicating a potential upside of 26.17%. Surgery Partners has a consensus target price of $43.13, indicating a potential upside of 61.28%. Given Community Health Systems' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Surgery Partners is more favorable than Community Health Systems.
Surgery Partners has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Community Health Systems. Surgery Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Community Health Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Surgery Partners had 16 more articles in the media than Community Health Systems. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Surgery Partners and 6 mentions for Community Health Systems. Community Health Systems' average media sentiment score of 0.47 beat Surgery Partners' score of 0.05 indicating that Surgery Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Surgery Partners has a net margin of -0.43% compared to Surgery Partners' net margin of -0.99%. Community Health Systems' return on equity of 3.65% beat Surgery Partners' return on equity.
Community Health Systems received 249 more outperform votes than Surgery Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.70% of users gave Surgery Partners an outperform vote while only 53.27% of users gave Community Health Systems an outperform vote.
Community Health Systems has a beta of 1.55, indicating that its stock price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Surgery Partners has a beta of 2.75, indicating that its stock price is 175% more volatile than the S&P 500.
85.0% of Community Health Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.9% of Community Health Systems shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Surgery Partners shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Surgery Partners beats Community Health Systems on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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