OSCR vs. MOH, ALHC, TRUP, CLOV, BHG, NEUE, UNH, ELV, CI, and HUM
Should you be buying Oscar Health stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Oscar Health include Molina Healthcare (MOH), Alignment Healthcare (ALHC), Trupanion (TRUP), Clover Health Investments (CLOV), Bright Health Group (BHG), NeueHealth (NEUE), UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Elevance Health (ELV), The Cigna Group (CI), and Humana (HUM). These companies are all part of the "hospital & medical service plans" industry.
Oscar Health (NYSE:OSCR) and Molina Healthcare (NYSE:MOH) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk and earnings.
Oscar Health presently has a consensus target price of $18.57, indicating a potential downside of 6.96%. Molina Healthcare has a consensus target price of $407.45, indicating a potential upside of 29.52%. Given Molina Healthcare's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Molina Healthcare is more favorable than Oscar Health.
Molina Healthcare has higher revenue and earnings than Oscar Health. Oscar Health is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Molina Healthcare, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
75.7% of Oscar Health shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.5% of Molina Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. 25.1% of Oscar Health shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Molina Healthcare shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Molina Healthcare had 3 more articles in the media than Oscar Health. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Molina Healthcare and 16 mentions for Oscar Health. Oscar Health's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Molina Healthcare's score of 0.36 indicating that Oscar Health is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Oscar Health has a beta of 1.66, suggesting that its share price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Molina Healthcare has a beta of 0.54, suggesting that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Molina Healthcare has a net margin of 2.99% compared to Oscar Health's net margin of -0.82%. Molina Healthcare's return on equity of 29.86% beat Oscar Health's return on equity.
Molina Healthcare received 498 more outperform votes than Oscar Health when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.05% of users gave Molina Healthcare an outperform vote while only 55.17% of users gave Oscar Health an outperform vote.
Summary
Molina Healthcare beats Oscar Health on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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