Head-To-Head Review: Wellness Center Usa (OTCMKTS:WCUI) and CVS Health (NYSE:CVS)

CVS Health (NYSE:CVS) and Wellness Center Usa (OTCMKTS:WCUI) are both medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, valuation, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership and analyst recommendations.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

80.7% of CVS Health shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.0% of Wellness Center Usa shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of CVS Health shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.7% of Wellness Center Usa shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk and Volatility

CVS Health has a beta of 0.48, suggesting that its share price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wellness Center Usa has a beta of 5.47, suggesting that its share price is 447% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for CVS Health and Wellness Center Usa, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
CVS Health	0	4	20	2	2.92
Wellness Center Usa	0	0	0	0	0.00

CVS Health currently has a consensus target price of $94.67, suggesting a potential upside of 18.94%. Given CVS Health’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe CVS Health is more favorable than Wellness Center Usa.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares CVS Health and Wellness Center Usa”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
CVS Health	$372.81 billion	0.27	$4.61 billion	$0.38	209.46
Wellness Center Usa	$660,000.00	N/A	-$750,000.00	N/A	N/A

CVS Health has higher revenue and earnings than Wellness Center Usa.

Profitability

This table compares CVS Health and Wellness Center Usa’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CVS Health	0.12%	11.45%	3.40%
Wellness Center Usa	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

CVS Health beats Wellness Center Usa on 10 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About CVS Health

CVS Health Corporation provides health solutions in the United States. It operates through Health Care Benefits, Health Services, and Pharmacy & Consumer Wellness segments. The Health Care Benefits segment offers traditional, voluntary, and consumer-directed health insurance products and related services. It serves employer groups, individuals, college students, part-time and hourly workers, health plans, health care providers, governmental units, government-sponsored plans, labor groups, and expatriates. The Health Services segment offers pharmacy benefit management solutions, including plan design and administration, formulary management, retail pharmacy network management, specialty and mail order pharmacy, clinical, disease management, and medical spend management services. It serves employers, insurance companies, unions, government employee groups, health plans, prescription drug plans, Medicaid managed care plans, CMS, plans offered on public health insurance, and other sponsors of health benefit plans. The Pharmacy & Consumer Wellness segment sells prescription and over-the-counter drugs, consumer health and beauty products, and personal care products. This segment also distributes prescription drugs; and provides related pharmacy consulting and other ancillary services to care facilities and other care settings. It operates online retail pharmacy websites, LTC pharmacies and on-site pharmacies, retail specialty pharmacy stores, compounding pharmacies and branches for infusion and enteral nutrition services. The company was formerly known as CVS Caremark Corporation and changed its name to CVS Health Corporation in September 2014. CVS Health Corporation was incorporated in 1996 and is headquartered in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.

About Wellness Center Usa

Wellness Center USA, Inc. engages in the healthcare and medical business in the United States and internationally. The company operates through Medical Devices; and Authentication and Encryption Products and Services segments. It is primarily involved in the marketing and distribution of online sports and nutrition supplements. The company also designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and distributes targeted ultraviolet phototherapy devices that include Psoria-Light, which is used in targeted PUVA photochemistry and UVB phototherapy for the treatment of skin conditions, such as psoriasis, vitiligo, atopic dermatitis, seborrheic dermatitis, and leukoderma. In addition, it offers intelligent microparticles, which provide technologies within the security and supply chain management vertical sectors; and ActiveDuty, a data intelligence service comprising proprietary, unprecedented, and actionable technology, which include a suite of analytical tools, such as artificial intelligence and social psychology for industries, companies, and agencies. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Tucson, Arizona.