Financial Review: Getinge (OTCMKTS:GNGBY) versus Agilon Health (NYSE:AGL)

Getinge (OTCMKTS:GNGBY) and Agilon Health (NYSE:AGL) are both medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends and risk.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Getinge and Agilon Health”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Getinge	$3.57 billion	1.51	$230.87 million	$0.92	21.57
Agilon Health	$5.93 billion	0.26	-$391.35 million	($21.56)	-4.30

Getinge has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Agilon Health. Agilon Health is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Getinge, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for Getinge and Agilon Health, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Getinge	0	2	1	0	2.33
Agilon Health	2	8	5	0	2.20

Agilon Health has a consensus target price of $58.73, indicating a potential downside of 36.60%. Given Agilon Health’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Agilon Health is more favorable than Getinge.

Profitability

This table compares Getinge and Agilon Health’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Getinge	6.92%	10.39%	5.38%
Agilon Health	-6.09%	-146.03%	-24.55%

Risk & Volatility

Getinge has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Agilon Health has a beta of 3, meaning that its share price is 200% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Getinge beats Agilon Health on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Getinge

Getinge AB (publ) provides products and solutions for operating rooms, intensive-care units, and sterilization departments. The company operates through Acute Care Therapies, Life Science, and Surgical Workflows segments. It offers extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, mechanical ventilation, mechanical circulatory support, advanced patient monitoring, ICU infrastructure equipment, patient flow management, and drainage solutions. The company also provides surgical perfusion, endoscopic vessel harvesting, intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation, and drainage solutions; and operating room infrastructure equipment, anesthesia, advanced patient monitoring, operating room management, and operating room integration solutions. In addition, it offers pre-cleaning, cleaning and disinfection, sterilization, consumables, endoscope reprocessing, and sterile supply management solutions; connected medical devices; bioreactor systems, DPTE systems, Getinge isolators, terminal sterilization products, and sterilizers; and vivarium, biohazardous materials handling solutions, labware cleaning and sterilization, upstream bioprocessing, and bioreactor preparation solutions. It offers its products through a network of sales companies, as well as through agents and distributors in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia and Pacific. Getinge AB (publ) was founded in 1904 and is headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden.

About Agilon Health

agilon health, inc. provides healthcare services for seniors through primary care physicians in the communities of the United States. It offers a platform that manages the total healthcare needs of the patients by subscription-like per-member per-month. The company was formerly known as Agilon Health Topco, Inc. and changed its name to agilon health, inc. in March 2021. agilon health, inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Austin, Texas.