THC vs. ALC, UHS, EHC, ENSG, ACHC, SEM, USPH, BKD, WOOF, and CYH
Should you be buying Tenet Healthcare stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tenet Healthcare include Alcon (ALC), Universal Health Services (UHS), Encompass Health (EHC), The Ensign Group (ENSG), Acadia Healthcare (ACHC), Select Medical (SEM), U.S. Physical Therapy (USPH), Brookdale Senior Living (BKD), Petco Health and Wellness (WOOF), and Community Health Systems (CYH). These companies are all part of the "health care facilities" industry.
Tenet Healthcare (NYSE:THC) and Alcon (NYSE:ALC) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, valuation, profitability, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Tenet Healthcare presently has a consensus target price of $120.41, indicating a potential downside of 10.95%. Alcon has a consensus target price of $94.71, indicating a potential upside of 6.26%. Given Alcon's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Alcon is more favorable than Tenet Healthcare.
Tenet Healthcare received 477 more outperform votes than Alcon when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.72% of users gave Alcon an outperform vote while only 59.96% of users gave Tenet Healthcare an outperform vote.
Tenet Healthcare has a net margin of 12.53% compared to Alcon's net margin of 10.96%. Tenet Healthcare's return on equity of 26.76% beat Alcon's return on equity.
In the previous week, Tenet Healthcare had 16 more articles in the media than Alcon. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Tenet Healthcare and 2 mentions for Alcon. Tenet Healthcare's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Alcon's score of -0.35 indicating that Tenet Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Alcon has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Tenet Healthcare. Tenet Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alcon, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
95.4% of Tenet Healthcare shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.9% of Alcon shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Tenet Healthcare shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Alcon shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Tenet Healthcare has a beta of 2.09, meaning that its share price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alcon has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Tenet Healthcare beats Alcon on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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