Bright Health Group (BHG) and Its Rivals Head to Head Contrast

Bright Health Group (NYSE:BHG – Get Rating) is one of 13 publicly-traded companies in the “Hospital & medical service plans” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its peers? We will compare Bright Health Group to related companies based on the strength of its valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability and dividends.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings for Bright Health Group and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Bright Health Group	2	6	2	0	2.00
Bright Health Group Competitors	109	1142	2336	53	2.64

Bright Health Group presently has a consensus price target of $7.15, indicating a potential upside of 272.40%. As a group, “Hospital & medical service plans” companies have a potential upside of 14.39%. Given Bright Health Group’s higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Bright Health Group is more favorable than its peers.

Profitability

This table compares Bright Health Group and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Bright Health Group	-27.15%	-87.57%	-33.77%
Bright Health Group Competitors	-5.29%	-11.14%	-5.08%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

88.6% of shares of all “Hospital & medical service plans” companies are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of shares of all “Hospital & medical service plans” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Bright Health Group and its peers revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Bright Health Group	$4.03 billion	-$1.18 billion	-0.81
Bright Health Group Competitors	$71.33 billion	$2.57 billion	5.51

Bright Health Group’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than Bright Health Group. Bright Health Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Summary

Bright Health Group peers beat Bright Health Group on 11 of the 12 factors compared.

Bright Health Group Company Profile (Get Rating)

Bright Health Group, Inc., a healthcare company, provides health insurance policies in the United States. It operates in two segments, NeueHealth and Bright HealthCare. The NeueHealth segment delivers virtual and in-person clinical care services to patients under contracts through its owned and affiliated primary care clinics. As of December 31, 2021, it worked with approximately 260,000 care provider partners; and operated 180 managed and affiliated risk-bearing clinics within its integrated care delivery system, which included embedded pharmacy, laboratory, radiology, and population health focused specialty services. The Bright HealthCare segment offers commercial and medicare health plan products to consumers in 14 states and 99 markets. The company was formerly known as Bright Health Inc. and changed its name to Bright Health Group, Inc. in February 2021. Bright Health Group, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.