Head-To-Head Survey: Wellgistics Health (NASDAQ:MEDS) and Aveanna Healthcare (NASDAQ:AVAH)

Aveanna Healthcare (NASDAQ:AVAH) and Wellgistics Health (NASDAQ:MEDS) are both healthcare companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership and valuation.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Aveanna Healthcare and Wellgistics Health”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Aveanna Healthcare	$2.43 billion	1.15	$225.03 million	$1.23	10.40
Wellgistics Health	$23.34 million	0.53	-$101.28 million	($46.13)	-0.08

Aveanna Healthcare has higher revenue and earnings than Wellgistics Health. Wellgistics Health is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Aveanna Healthcare, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Volatility and Risk

Aveanna Healthcare has a beta of 1.97, suggesting that its stock price is 97% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wellgistics Health has a beta of -1.77, suggesting that its stock price is 277% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Aveanna Healthcare and Wellgistics Health’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Aveanna Healthcare	10.56%	80.70%	7.42%
Wellgistics Health	-1,100.16%	N/A	-171.81%

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for Aveanna Healthcare and Wellgistics Health, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Aveanna Healthcare	0	5	6	1	2.67
Wellgistics Health	1	0	0	0	1.00

Aveanna Healthcare currently has a consensus target price of $14.06, indicating a potential upside of 9.89%. Given Aveanna Healthcare’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Aveanna Healthcare is more favorable than Wellgistics Health.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

88.0% of Aveanna Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.7% of Wellgistics Health shares are held by institutional investors. 5.3% of Aveanna Healthcare shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 29.1% of Wellgistics Health shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Aveanna Healthcare beats Wellgistics Health on 14 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

About Wellgistics Health

Founded in 2022, Wellgistics Health is a holding company for various existing and planned strategic businesses centered around pharmaceuticals and healthcare services. As a micro health ecosystem, our portfolio of companies consists of a pharmacy, wholesale operations, and a technology division with a novel platform for hub and clinical services. We are focused on improving the lives of patients while delivering unique solutions for pharmacies, providers, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and payors. In January 2023 and May 2023, Wellgistics Health entered into separate definitive agreements with the owners of Wood Sage and Wellgistics LLC, respectively, whereby Wellgistics Health would acquire all of the respective outstanding membership interests of Wood Sage and Wellgistics LLC. In June 2024, Wellgistics Health and Wood Sage entered into an amended and revised definitive agreement and closed on the Wood Sage Acquisition, thereby making Wood Sage a wholly owned subsidiary of Wellgistics Health. In connection with the Wood Sage Acquisition, Wellgistics Health acquired Wood Sage’s two operating subsidiaries, APS—a pharmaceutical technology hub—and CSP—a retail community specialty pharmacy. On August 30, 2024, Wellgistics Health closed on the Wellgistics Acquisition, thereby making Wellgistics LLC—a company focused on wholesale operations including the distribution and fulfillment of certain pharmaceutical medications to a network of independent pharmacies meant to improve market access to and patient outcomes regarding the medications—a wholly owned subsidiary of Wellgistics Health. As such, Wellgistics Health currently exists as a holding company with Wood Sage as a directly held intermediate holding company subsidiary, APS and CSP as indirect operating subsidiaries, and Wellgistics LLC as a direct operating subsidiary. On October 4, 2024, the Company changed its corporate name to “Wellgistics Health, Inc.” by filing a duly authorized Certificate of Amendment to its Certificate of Incorporation. Despite that Wellgistics Health only recently closed the Wood Sage Acquisition and the Wellgistics Acquisition during 2024, the three companies have shared common office space, comarketed solutions to the marketplace, and leveraged financial and back-office support prior to June 2024. As such, Wellgistics Health’s management believes that its close business relationships have and will continue to limit the need for post-closing integration. The mailing address of our principal executive office is 3000 Bayport Drive, Suite 950 Tampa, FL.