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.
Molina Healthcare (NYSE:MOH) and Oscar Health (NYSE:OSCR) are both medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, risk, media sentiment and community ranking.
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.
Molina Healthcare has a beta of 0.54, suggesting that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Oscar Health has a beta of 1.66, suggesting that its stock price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500.
98.5% of Molina Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.7% of Oscar Health shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Molina Healthcare shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 25.1% of Oscar Health shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Molina Healthcare has a net margin of 2.99% compared to Molina Healthcare's net margin of -0.82%. Oscar Health's return on equity of 29.86% beat Molina Healthcare's return on equity.
Molina Healthcare received 497 more outperform votes than Oscar Health when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.91% of users gave Molina Healthcare an outperform vote while only 54.55% of users gave Oscar Health an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Molina Healthcare had 10 more articles in the media than Oscar Health. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Molina Healthcare and 4 mentions for Oscar Health. Molina Healthcare's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Oscar Health's score of 0.57 indicating that Oscar Health is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Molina Healthcare currently has a consensus price target of $404.90, indicating a potential upside of 24.93%. Oscar Health has a consensus price target of $17.67, indicating a potential downside of 13.53%. Given Oscar Health's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Molina Healthcare is more favorable than Oscar Health.
Summary
Molina Healthcare beats Oscar Health on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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