GEN vs. NTES, PLTR, SNOW, ADSK, TEAM, SQ, DDOG, EA, HUBS, and MSTR
Should you be buying Genesis Healthcare stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Genesis Healthcare include NetEase (NTES), Palantir Technologies (PLTR), Snowflake (SNOW), Autodesk (ADSK), Atlassian (TEAM), Block (SQ), Datadog (DDOG), Electronic Arts (EA), HubSpot (HUBS), and MicroStrategy (MSTR). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Genesis Healthcare (NYSE:GEN) and NetEase (NASDAQ:NTES) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, risk, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Genesis Healthcare has a beta of 0.84, indicating that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NetEase has a beta of 0.52, indicating that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
82.1% of Genesis Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.1% of NetEase shares are held by institutional investors. 3.3% of Genesis Healthcare shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 54.7% of NetEase shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
NetEase has higher revenue and earnings than Genesis Healthcare. NetEase is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Genesis Healthcare, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, NetEase had 2 more articles in the media than Genesis Healthcare. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for NetEase and 1 mentions for Genesis Healthcare. NetEase's average media sentiment score of 1.41 beat Genesis Healthcare's score of 0.00 indicating that NetEase is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Genesis Healthcare currently has a consensus price target of $26.20, indicating a potential upside of 5.99%. NetEase has a consensus price target of $125.71, indicating a potential upside of 33.88%. Given NetEase's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe NetEase is more favorable than Genesis Healthcare.
NetEase has a net margin of 28.75% compared to Genesis Healthcare's net margin of 17.83%. Genesis Healthcare's return on equity of 155.48% beat NetEase's return on equity.
Genesis Healthcare pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. NetEase pays an annual dividend of $1.97 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Genesis Healthcare pays out 55.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. NetEase pays out 30.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. NetEase is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
NetEase received 197 more outperform votes than Genesis Healthcare when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.02% of users gave NetEase an outperform vote while only 65.69% of users gave Genesis Healthcare an outperform vote.
Summary
NetEase beats Genesis Healthcare on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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