SEM vs. THC, UHS, EHC, ENSG, ACHC, USPH, BKD, WOOF, CYH, and HCA
Should you be buying Select Medical stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Select Medical include Tenet Healthcare (THC), Universal Health Services (UHS), Encompass Health (EHC), The Ensign Group (ENSG), Acadia Healthcare (ACHC), U.S. Physical Therapy (USPH), Brookdale Senior Living (BKD), Petco Health and Wellness (WOOF), Community Health Systems (CYH), and HCA Healthcare (HCA). These companies are all part of the "health care facilities" industry.
Select Medical (NYSE:SEM) and Tenet Healthcare (NYSE:THC) are both medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, valuation and community ranking.
Tenet Healthcare has higher revenue and earnings than Select Medical. Tenet Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Select Medical, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Select Medical has a beta of 1.44, indicating that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tenet Healthcare has a beta of 2.12, indicating that its share price is 112% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Select Medical presently has a consensus target price of $34.25, suggesting a potential upside of 3.57%. Tenet Healthcare has a consensus target price of $120.41, suggesting a potential downside of 11.00%. Given Select Medical's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Select Medical is more favorable than Tenet Healthcare.
Tenet Healthcare has a net margin of 12.53% compared to Select Medical's net margin of 3.97%. Tenet Healthcare's return on equity of 26.76% beat Select Medical's return on equity.
89.5% of Select Medical shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.4% of Tenet Healthcare shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.5% of Select Medical shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Tenet Healthcare shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Tenet Healthcare had 10 more articles in the media than Select Medical. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Tenet Healthcare and 0 mentions for Select Medical. Tenet Healthcare's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Select Medical's score of 0.00 indicating that Tenet Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Tenet Healthcare received 329 more outperform votes than Select Medical when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.00% of users gave Tenet Healthcare an outperform vote while only 57.85% of users gave Select Medical an outperform vote.
Summary
Tenet Healthcare beats Select Medical on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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