THC vs. UHS, SGRY, RGEN, QGEN, TFX, TECH, HSIC, CHE, CTLT, and ROIV
Should you be buying Tenet Healthcare stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tenet Healthcare include Universal Health Services (UHS), Surgery Partners (SGRY), Repligen (RGEN), Qiagen (QGEN), Teleflex (TFX), Bio-Techne (TECH), Henry Schein (HSIC), Chemed (CHE), Catalent (CTLT), and Roivant Sciences (ROIV). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Universal Health Services (NYSE:UHS) and Tenet Healthcare (NYSE:THC) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings and institutional ownership.
Universal Health Services currently has a consensus target price of $182.79, suggesting a potential upside of 7.40%. Tenet Healthcare has a consensus target price of $111.06, suggesting a potential downside of 4.21%. Given Tenet Healthcare's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Universal Health Services is more favorable than Tenet Healthcare.
Universal Health Services has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Tenet Healthcare. Tenet Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Universal Health Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Tenet Healthcare had 2 more articles in the media than Universal Health Services. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for Tenet Healthcare and 31 mentions for Universal Health Services. Tenet Healthcare's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Universal Health Services' score of 0.65 indicating that Universal Health Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Tenet Healthcare has a net margin of 12.53% compared to Tenet Healthcare's net margin of 5.57%. Universal Health Services' return on equity of 26.76% beat Tenet Healthcare's return on equity.
Universal Health Services has a beta of 1.26, indicating that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tenet Healthcare has a beta of 2.09, indicating that its stock price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500.
86.1% of Universal Health Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.4% of Tenet Healthcare shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.1% of Universal Health Services shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Tenet Healthcare shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Tenet Healthcare received 32 more outperform votes than Universal Health Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.64% of users gave Universal Health Services an outperform vote while only 59.71% of users gave Tenet Healthcare an outperform vote.
Summary
Tenet Healthcare beats Universal Health Services on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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