BrightSpring Health Services (NASDAQ:BTSG – Get Free Report) and Beauty Health (NASDAQ:SKIN – Get Free Report) are both medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations and risk.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares BrightSpring Health Services and Beauty Health”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| BrightSpring Health Services | $11.27 billion | 0.58 | -$18.06 million | $0.61 | 59.90 |
| Beauty Health | $334.30 million | 0.53 | -$29.10 million | ($0.22) | -6.36 |
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of current ratings for BrightSpring Health Services and Beauty Health, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| BrightSpring Health Services | 0 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 3.00 |
| Beauty Health | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
BrightSpring Health Services presently has a consensus price target of $38.75, indicating a potential upside of 6.05%. Beauty Health has a consensus price target of $2.81, indicating a potential upside of 100.89%. Given Beauty Health’s higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Beauty Health is more favorable than BrightSpring Health Services.
Risk & Volatility
BrightSpring Health Services has a beta of 2.36, suggesting that its share price is 136% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Beauty Health has a beta of 1.18, suggesting that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares BrightSpring Health Services and Beauty Health’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| BrightSpring Health Services | 1.04% | 11.61% | 3.37% |
| Beauty Health | -3.87% | -19.70% | -1.97% |
Institutional & Insider Ownership
93.3% of Beauty Health shares are held by institutional investors. 3.4% of BrightSpring Health Services shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 41.0% of Beauty Health shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
BrightSpring Health Services beats Beauty Health on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About BrightSpring Health Services
BrightSpring Health Services, Inc. operates a home and community-based healthcare services platform in the United States. The company's platform focuses on delivering pharmacy and provider services, including clinical and supportive care in home and community settings to Medicare, Medicaid, and insured populations. It serves patients through clinical providers and pharmacists. The company was formerly known as Phoenix Parent Holdings Inc. and changed its name to BrightSpring Health Services, Inc. in May 2021. BrightSpring Health Services, Inc. was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky.
About Beauty Health
The Beauty Health Company designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and sells aesthetic technologies and products worldwide. The company's flagship product includes HydraFacial that enhance the skin to cleanse, extract, and hydrate the skin with proprietary solutions and serums. Its products also comprise Syndeo, a Delivery System designs to connects providers to the consumer's preferences to create a more personalized experience; consumables, such as single-use tips, solutions, and serums used to provide a hydrafacial treatment; SkinStylus SteriLock Microsystem, a microneedling device used for the treatment of enhancing appearance of surgical or traumatic hypertrophic scars on the abdomen and facial acne scarring in Fitzpatrick skin types I, II, and III; and Keravive, a treatment for scalp health. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Long Beach, California.
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