Tenet Healthcare (NYSE:THC – Get Free Report) and Auna (NYSE:AUNA – Get Free Report) are both healthcare companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
95.4% of Tenet Healthcare shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Tenet Healthcare shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Profitability
This table compares Tenet Healthcare and Auna’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Tenet Healthcare | 10.27% | 26.76% | 5.55% |
| Auna | 0.44% | 12.88% | 3.24% |
Analyst Recommendations
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Tenet Healthcare | 0 | 1 | 19 | 1 | 3.00 |
| Auna | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2.40 |
Tenet Healthcare presently has a consensus target price of $273.00, suggesting a potential upside of 2.40%. Auna has a consensus target price of $6.97, suggesting a potential upside of 34.49%. Given Auna’s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Auna is more favorable than Tenet Healthcare.
Risk and Volatility
Tenet Healthcare has a beta of 1.23, meaning that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Auna has a beta of 0.61, meaning that its stock price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Tenet Healthcare and Auna”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Tenet Healthcare | $21.31 billion | 1.01 | $1.41 billion | $25.93 | 10.28 |
| Auna | $4.67 billion | 0.08 | $27.39 million | $0.07 | 74.00 |
Tenet Healthcare has higher revenue and earnings than Auna. Tenet Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Auna, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Tenet Healthcare beats Auna on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Tenet Healthcare
Tenet Healthcare Corporation operates as a diversified healthcare services company in the United States. The company operates through two segments: Hospital Operations and Services, and Ambulatory Care. Its general hospitals offer acute care services, operating and recovery rooms, radiology and respiratory therapy services, clinical laboratories, and pharmacies. The company also provides intensive and critical care, and/or coronary care units; cardiovascular, digestive disease, neurosciences, musculoskeletal, and obstetrics services; outpatient services, including physical therapy; tertiary care services, such as cardiothoracic surgery, complex spinal surgery, neonatal intensive care, and neurosurgery services; quaternary care services in heart and kidney transplants; and limb salvaging vascular procedure, acute level 1 trauma, intravascular stroke care, minimally invasive cardiac valve replacement, imaging, surgical robotic, and telemedicine access services. In addition, it offers a range of procedures and services, such as orthopedics, total joint replacement, and spinal and other musculoskeletal procedures; gastroenterology; pain management; otolaryngology; ophthalmology; and urology. It operates hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, surgical hospitals, off-campus emergency departments, and micro-hospitals. Tenet Healthcare Corporation was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
About Auna
Auna S.A., a healthcare service provider, operates hospitals and clinics in Mexico, Peru, and Colombia. The company provides prepaid healthcare plans in Peru; and dental and vision plans in Mexico. The company was founded in 1989 and is based in Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
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