Nutex Health (NASDAQ:NUTX) vs. Sonic Healthcare (OTCMKTS:SKHHY) Head-To-Head Comparison

Nutex Health (NASDAQ:NUTX) and Sonic Healthcare (OTCMKTS:SKHHY) are both medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, dividends and valuation.

Risk and Volatility

Nutex Health has a beta of 0.26, indicating that its share price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sonic Healthcare has a beta of 0.72, indicating that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings and Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Nutex Health	$875.26 million	1.17	$70.79 million	$12.94	11.52
Sonic Healthcare	$6.25 billion	1.12	$332.61 million	N/A	N/A

Sonic Healthcare has higher revenue and earnings than Nutex Health.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings for Nutex Health and Sonic Healthcare, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Nutex Health	0	1	2	0	2.67
Sonic Healthcare	1	1	0	0	1.50

Nutex Health currently has a consensus price target of $220.00, indicating a potential upside of 47.55%. Given Nutex Health’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Nutex Health is more favorable than Sonic Healthcare.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

5.3% of Nutex Health shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.0% of Sonic Healthcare shares are owned by institutional investors. 44.7% of Nutex Health shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Nutex Health	10.95%	23.50%	10.47%
Sonic Healthcare	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

Nutex Health beats Sonic Healthcare on 9 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Nutex Health

Nutex Health Inc. operates as a physician-led, healthcare services, and operations company. It operates through three segments: Hospital, Population Health Management (PHM), and Real Estate. The PHM segment establishes and operates independent physician associations; and offers a cloud-based platform for healthcare organizations to provide value-based care and population health management. The Real Estate segment owns and owns and leases land and hospital building. The Hospital segment develops and operates a network of micro-hospitals, specialty hospitals and hospital outpatient departments which offers 24/7 care. It also provides operational and managerial services, including management, billing, collections, human resources and recruiting, legal, accounting, and marketing. In addition, the company offers healthcare services, including emergency room care, inpatient care, and behavioral health, as well as onsite imaging, such as CT scan, X-ray, MRI, ultrasound, etc.; certified and accredited laboratories; and onsite inpatient pharmacies. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Houston, Texas.

About Sonic Healthcare

Sonic Healthcare Limited offers medical diagnostic services to medical practitioners, hospitals, community health services, and their collective patients. The company provides laboratory medicine/pathology testing services, such as biochemistry, cytopathology, genetics, haematology, histopathology, immunoserology, microbiology, molecular pathology, prenatal testing, toxicology, and ancillary functions; and radiology services, including magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography (CT), ultrasound, X-ray, mammography, nuclear medicine, PET CT, interventional procedures, and bone mineral densitometry. It offers primary care medical services comprising general practice clinics, occupational health services, skin cancer clinics, after-hours general practice services, general practice IT solutions, and community-based healthcare services. The company operates in Australia, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the United States, Germany, Switzerland, New Zealand, Belgium, and internationally. Sonic Healthcare Limited was incorporated in 1934 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.