BrightSpring Health Services (NASDAQ:BTSG – Get Free Report) and Beauty Health (NASDAQ:SKIN – Get Free Report) are both medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, valuation and earnings.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
93.3% of Beauty Health shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.4% of BrightSpring Health Services shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 41.0% of Beauty Health shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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% |
Valuation & Earnings
| 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 |
BrightSpring Health Services has higher revenue and earnings than Beauty Health. Beauty Health is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BrightSpring Health Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices 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 plainly believe Beauty Health is more favorable than BrightSpring Health Services.
Risk & Volatility
BrightSpring Health Services has a beta of 2.36, indicating that its stock price is 136% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Beauty Health has a beta of 1.18, indicating that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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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