FMS vs. DVA, SHC, INCY, NTRA, RVTY, THC, SRPT, TECH, VTRS, and SWAV
Should you be buying Fresenius Medical Care stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fresenius Medical Care include DaVita (DVA), Sotera Health (SHC), Incyte (INCY), Natera (NTRA), Revvity (RVTY), Tenet Healthcare (THC), Sarepta Therapeutics (SRPT), Bio-Techne (TECH), Viatris (VTRS), and Shockwave Medical (SWAV). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
DaVita (NYSE:DVA) and Fresenius Medical Care (NYSE:FMS) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends and profitability.
DaVita has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Fresenius Medical Care. DaVita is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fresenius Medical Care, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
DaVita received 87 more outperform votes than Fresenius Medical Care when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.70% of users gave DaVita an outperform vote while only 53.99% of users gave Fresenius Medical Care an outperform vote.
90.1% of DaVita shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.3% of Fresenius Medical Care shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of DaVita shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
DaVita has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fresenius Medical Care has a beta of 0.95, suggesting that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, DaVita had 8 more articles in the media than Fresenius Medical Care. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for DaVita and 6 mentions for Fresenius Medical Care. DaVita's average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat Fresenius Medical Care's score of 0.75 indicating that Fresenius Medical Care is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
DaVita has a net margin of 6.61% compared to DaVita's net margin of 2.48%. Fresenius Medical Care's return on equity of 68.52% beat DaVita's return on equity.
DaVita presently has a consensus target price of $144.67, indicating a potential upside of 3.47%. Fresenius Medical Care has a consensus target price of $24.00, indicating a potential upside of 9.24%. Given DaVita's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Fresenius Medical Care is more favorable than DaVita.
Summary
DaVita beats Fresenius Medical Care on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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