UHS vs. THC, SGRY, SOLV, EXAS, NTRA, FMS, UTHR, SNN, RDY, and DVA
Should you be buying Universal Health Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Universal Health Services include Tenet Healthcare (THC), Surgery Partners (SGRY), Solventum (SOLV), Exact Sciences (EXAS), Natera (NTRA), Fresenius Medical Care (FMS), United Therapeutics (UTHR), Smith & Nephew (SNN), Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (RDY), and DaVita (DVA). 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 better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, profitability, risk and analyst recommendations.
86.1% of Universal Health Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.4% of Tenet Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. 16.1% of Universal Health Services shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Tenet Healthcare shares are held by company 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.
In the previous week, Tenet Healthcare had 3 more articles in the media than Universal Health Services. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Tenet Healthcare and 15 mentions for Universal Health Services. Tenet Healthcare's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Universal Health Services' score of 0.72 indicating that Tenet Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Tenet Healthcare received 34 more outperform votes than Universal Health Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.57% of users gave Universal Health Services an outperform vote while only 59.78% of users gave Tenet Healthcare an outperform vote.
Universal Health Services presently has a consensus target price of $183.20, suggesting a potential upside of 2.87%. Tenet Healthcare has a consensus target price of $113.19, suggesting a potential downside of 10.97%. Given Universal Health Services' higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Universal Health Services is more favorable than Tenet Healthcare.
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.
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.
Tenet Healthcare has a net margin of 12.53% compared to Universal Health Services' net margin of 5.57%. Tenet Healthcare's return on equity of 26.76% beat Universal Health Services' return on equity.
Summary
Tenet Healthcare beats Universal Health Services on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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