Joint (NASDAQ:JYNT – Get Free Report) and Aveanna Healthcare (NASDAQ:AVAH – Get Free Report) are both healthcare companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and profitability.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
76.9% of Joint shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.0% of Aveanna Healthcare shares are owned by institutional investors. 30.2% of Joint shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.3% of Aveanna Healthcare shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Volatility and Risk
Joint has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Aveanna Healthcare has a beta of 1.97, indicating that its share price is 97% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Recommendations
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Joint | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Aveanna Healthcare | 0 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 2.67 |
Aveanna Healthcare has a consensus target price of $13.50, indicating a potential downside of 2.60%. Given Aveanna Healthcare’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Aveanna Healthcare is more favorable than Joint.
Profitability
This table compares Joint and Aveanna Healthcare’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Joint | 6.49% | 12.02% | 3.47% |
| Aveanna Healthcare | 10.56% | 80.70% | 7.42% |
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Joint and Aveanna Healthcare”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Joint | $54.90 million | 2.07 | $2.91 million | $0.27 | 29.74 |
| Aveanna Healthcare | $2.43 billion | 1.24 | $225.03 million | $1.23 | 11.27 |
Aveanna Healthcare has higher revenue and earnings than Joint. Aveanna Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Joint, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Aveanna Healthcare beats Joint on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Joint
The Joint Corp. operates and franchises chiropractic clinics in the United States. The company operates in two segments, Corporate Clinics and Franchise Operations. The Joint Corp. was incorporated in 2010 and is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona.
About Aveanna Healthcare
Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc., a diversified home care platform company, provides pediatric and adult healthcare services in the United States. Its patient-centered care delivery platform allows patients to remain in their homes and minimizes the overutilization of high-cost care settings, such as hospitals or skilled nursing facilities. The company operates through three segments: Private Duty Services (PDS), Home Health & Hospice (HHH), and Medical Solutions (MS). The PDS segment offers PDN services, which include in-home skilled nursing services to medically fragile children and adults; nursing services in school settings in which its caregivers accompany patients to school; services to patients in its pediatric day healthcare centers; and employer of record support and personal care services, as well as in-clinic and home-based therapy services, such as physical, occupational, and speech services. The HHH segment provides home health services, including in-home skilled nursing services; physical, occupational, and speech therapy services; and medical social and aide services, as well as hospice services for patients and their families when a life-limiting illness no longer responds to cure-oriented treatments. The MS segment offers enteral nutrition supplies and other products, including formulas, supplies, and pumps to adults and children delivered on a periodic or as-needed basis. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
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