ELV vs. CI, CNC, HUM, UNH, SNY, SYK, ISRG, MDT, BSX, and REGN
Should you be buying Elevance Health stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Elevance Health include The Cigna Group (CI), Centene (CNC), Humana (HUM), UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Sanofi (SNY), Stryker (SYK), Intuitive Surgical (ISRG), Medtronic (MDT), Boston Scientific (BSX), and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (REGN). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
The Cigna Group (NYSE:CI) and Elevance Health (NYSE:ELV) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, risk, dividends and earnings.
87.0% of The Cigna Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.2% of Elevance Health shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of The Cigna Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Elevance Health shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
The Cigna Group has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Elevance Health has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
The Cigna Group presently has a consensus target price of $366.14, suggesting a potential upside of 5.61%. Elevance Health has a consensus target price of $587.42, suggesting a potential upside of 9.58%. Given The Cigna Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Elevance Health is more favorable than The Cigna Group.
The Cigna Group pays an annual dividend of $5.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Elevance Health pays an annual dividend of $6.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. The Cigna Group pays out 46.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Elevance Health pays out 24.6% 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. The Cigna Group has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years and Elevance Health has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years.
The Cigna Group received 97 more outperform votes than Elevance Health when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.86% of users gave The Cigna Group an outperform vote while only 66.61% of users gave Elevance Health an outperform vote.
In the previous week, The Cigna Group had 29 more articles in the media than Elevance Health. MarketBeat recorded 37 mentions for The Cigna Group and 8 mentions for Elevance Health. The Cigna Group's average media sentiment score of 1.36 beat Elevance Health's score of 0.67 indicating that Elevance Health is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Elevance Health has lower revenue, but higher earnings than The Cigna Group. Elevance Health is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than The Cigna Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Elevance Health has a net margin of 3.64% compared to Elevance Health's net margin of 1.76%. The Cigna Group's return on equity of 20.62% beat Elevance Health's return on equity.
Summary
Elevance Health beats The Cigna Group on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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