CNC vs. ELV, CI, HUM, MOH, UNH, OSCR, ALHC, TRUP, CLOV, and NEUE
Should you be buying Centene stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Centene include Elevance Health (ELV), The Cigna Group (CI), Humana (HUM), Molina Healthcare (MOH), UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Oscar Health (OSCR), Alignment Healthcare (ALHC), Trupanion (TRUP), Clover Health Investments (CLOV), and NeueHealth (NEUE). These companies are all part of the "hospital & medical service plans" industry.
Elevance Health (NYSE:ELV) and Centene (NYSE:CNC) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation and community ranking.
Elevance Health presently has a consensus price target of $598.23, suggesting a potential upside of 11.10%. Centene has a consensus price target of $84.93, suggesting a potential upside of 18.63%. Given Elevance Health's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Centene is more favorable than Elevance Health.
89.2% of Elevance Health shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.6% of Centene shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Elevance Health shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Centene shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Elevance Health has a net margin of 3.64% compared to Elevance Health's net margin of 1.76%. Centene's return on equity of 20.62% beat Elevance Health's return on equity.
Centene received 178 more outperform votes than Elevance Health when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.09% of users gave Centene an outperform vote while only 66.75% of users gave Elevance Health an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Centene had 15 more articles in the media than Elevance Health. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for Centene and 25 mentions for Elevance Health. Centene's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Elevance Health's score of 0.52 indicating that Elevance Health is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Elevance Health has higher revenue and earnings than Centene. Centene is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Elevance Health, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Elevance Health has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Centene has a beta of 0.41, suggesting that its stock price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Elevance Health beats Centene on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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