HUM vs. ELV, CI, CNC, MOH, UNH, OSCR, ALHC, TRUP, CLOV, and NEUE
Should you be buying Humana stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Humana include Elevance Health (ELV), The Cigna Group (CI), Centene (CNC), 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 Humana (NYSE:HUM) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking and valuation.
89.2% of Elevance Health shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.4% of Humana shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Elevance Health shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Humana shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Elevance Health pays an annual dividend of $6.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Humana pays an annual dividend of $3.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Elevance Health pays out 24.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Humana pays out 22.0% 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. Elevance Health has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years and Humana has increased its dividend for 7 consecutive years. Elevance Health is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Humana received 47 more outperform votes than Elevance Health when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.80% of users gave Elevance Health an outperform vote while only 64.01% of users gave Humana an outperform vote.
Elevance Health has a beta of 0.83, meaning that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Humana has a beta of 0.53, meaning that its stock price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Elevance Health has higher revenue and earnings than Humana. Elevance Health is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Humana, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Humana had 25 more articles in the media than Elevance Health. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for Humana and 15 mentions for Elevance Health. Humana's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Elevance Health's score of 0.41 indicating that Elevance Health is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Elevance Health has a net margin of 3.64% compared to Elevance Health's net margin of 1.82%. Humana's return on equity of 20.62% beat Elevance Health's return on equity.
Elevance Health currently has a consensus target price of $601.64, suggesting a potential upside of 11.63%. Humana has a consensus target price of $423.63, suggesting a potential upside of 20.42%. Given Elevance Health's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Humana is more favorable than Elevance Health.
Summary
Elevance Health beats Humana on 16 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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