CYH vs. FULC, TRDA, CCCC, EDIT, TSHA, TBPH, VYGR, ADPT, SLRN, and RVNC
Should you be buying Community Health Systems stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Community Health Systems include Fulcrum Therapeutics (FULC), Entrada Therapeutics (TRDA), C4 Therapeutics (CCCC), Editas Medicine (EDIT), Taysha Gene Therapies (TSHA), Theravance Biopharma (TBPH), Voyager Therapeutics (VYGR), Adaptive Biotechnologies (ADPT), Acelyrin (SLRN), and Revance Therapeutics (RVNC). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Community Health Systems (NYSE:CYH) and Fulcrum Therapeutics (NASDAQ:FULC) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability and earnings.
Fulcrum Therapeutics has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Community Health Systems. Fulcrum Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Community Health Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Community Health Systems has a beta of 1.55, suggesting that its stock price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fulcrum Therapeutics has a beta of 2.35, suggesting that its stock price is 135% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Community Health Systems currently has a consensus target price of $4.05, suggesting a potential upside of 12.19%. Fulcrum Therapeutics has a consensus target price of $14.33, suggesting a potential upside of 89.85%. Given Fulcrum Therapeutics' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Fulcrum Therapeutics is more favorable than Community Health Systems.
In the previous week, Fulcrum Therapeutics had 31 more articles in the media than Community Health Systems. MarketBeat recorded 36 mentions for Fulcrum Therapeutics and 5 mentions for Community Health Systems. Fulcrum Therapeutics' average media sentiment score of 0.24 beat Community Health Systems' score of 0.09 indicating that Fulcrum Therapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Community Health Systems has a net margin of -0.99% compared to Fulcrum Therapeutics' net margin of -3,470.05%. Community Health Systems' return on equity of -5.51% beat Fulcrum Therapeutics' return on equity.
Community Health Systems received 450 more outperform votes than Fulcrum Therapeutics when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.63% of users gave Fulcrum Therapeutics an outperform vote while only 53.27% of users gave Community Health Systems an outperform vote.
85.0% of Community Health Systems shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.8% of Fulcrum Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. 9.9% of Community Health Systems shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.1% of Fulcrum Therapeutics shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Fulcrum Therapeutics beats Community Health Systems on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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