AVAH vs. EHAB, PNTG, VMD, HLTH, AHCO, ADUS, BTSG, IRMD, WGS, and AVTE
Should you be buying Aveanna Healthcare stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aveanna Healthcare include Enhabit (EHAB), The Pennant Group (PNTG), Viemed Healthcare (VMD), Cue Health (HLTH), AdaptHealth (AHCO), Addus HomeCare (ADUS), BrightSpring Health Services (BTSG), Iradimed (IRMD), GeneDx (WGS), and Aerovate Therapeutics (AVTE). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Enhabit (NYSE:EHAB) and Aveanna Healthcare (NASDAQ:AVAH) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends and earnings.
In the previous week, Enhabit had 7 more articles in the media than Aveanna Healthcare. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Enhabit and 4 mentions for Aveanna Healthcare. Aveanna Healthcare's average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat Enhabit's score of 0.42 indicating that Enhabit is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Enhabit presently has a consensus price target of $10.13, indicating a potential upside of 12.00%. Aveanna Healthcare has a consensus price target of $1.80, indicating a potential downside of 36.17%. Given Aveanna Healthcare's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Enhabit is more favorable than Aveanna Healthcare.
Enhabit has a beta of 1.98, indicating that its stock price is 98% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Aveanna Healthcare has a beta of 2.02, indicating that its stock price is 102% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Aveanna Healthcare has a net margin of -5.92% compared to Aveanna Healthcare's net margin of -7.95%. Aveanna Healthcare's return on equity of 1.43% beat Enhabit's return on equity.
Enhabit has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Aveanna Healthcare. Enhabit is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Aveanna Healthcare, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
88.0% of Aveanna Healthcare shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of Enhabit shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.8% of Aveanna Healthcare shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Aveanna Healthcare received 21 more outperform votes than Enhabit when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 38.71% of users gave Aveanna Healthcare an outperform vote while only 12.00% of users gave Enhabit an outperform vote.
Summary
Aveanna Healthcare beats Enhabit on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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