Head-To-Head Comparison: Ramsay Health Care (OTCMKTS:RMYHY) vs. Beauty Health (NASDAQ:SKIN)

Ramsay Health Care (OTCMKTS:RMYHY) and Beauty Health (NASDAQ:SKIN) are both medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and valuation.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

93.3% of Beauty Health shares are held by institutional investors. 41.0% of Beauty Health shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Ramsay Health Care and Beauty Health, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Ramsay Health Care	1	2	0	0	1.67
Beauty Health	2	4	1	0	1.86

Beauty Health has a consensus target price of $2.40, suggesting a potential upside of 140.14%. Given Beauty Health’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Beauty Health is more favorable than Ramsay Health Care.

Risk & Volatility

Ramsay Health Care has a beta of 0.05, meaning that its stock price is 95% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Beauty Health has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Ramsay Health Care and Beauty Health”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Ramsay Health Care	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Beauty Health	$334.30 million	0.38	-$29.10 million	($0.22)	-4.54

Ramsay Health Care has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Beauty Health.

Profitability

This table compares Ramsay Health Care and Beauty Health’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Ramsay Health Care	N/A	N/A	N/A
Beauty Health	-3.87%	-19.70%	-1.97%

Summary

Beauty Health beats Ramsay Health Care on 7 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Ramsay Health Care

Ramsay Health Care Limited owns and operates hospitals. The company offers health care services to public and private patients. It operates facilities in approximately 530 locations in the Asia Pacific, the United Kingdom, France, and Nordics. Ramsay Health Care Limited was founded in 1964 and is based in Sydney, Australia.

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.