Agilon Health (NYSE:AGL) versus Enhabit (NYSE:EHAB) Head to Head Comparison

Enhabit (NYSE:EHAB) and Agilon Health (NYSE:AGL) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk and earnings.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Enhabit and Agilon Health, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Enhabit	1	6	2	0	2.11
Agilon Health	2	11	3	0	2.06

Enhabit presently has a consensus target price of $13.57, indicating a potential downside of 0.36%. Agilon Health has a consensus target price of $2.18, indicating a potential upside of 262.38%. Given Agilon Health’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Agilon Health is more favorable than Enhabit.

Risk & Volatility

Enhabit has a beta of 1.56, suggesting that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Agilon Health has a beta of 0.11, suggesting that its share price is 89% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Enhabit and Agilon Health”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Enhabit	$1.06 billion	0.65	-$156.20 million	($0.09)	-151.33
Agilon Health	$5.93 billion	0.04	-$391.35 million	($0.95)	-0.63

Enhabit has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Agilon Health. Enhabit is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Agilon Health, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares Enhabit and Agilon Health’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Enhabit	-0.43%	4.71%	2.23%
Agilon Health	-6.60%	-120.82%	-24.89%

Summary

Enhabit beats Agilon Health on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Enhabit

Enhabit, Inc. provides home health and hospice services in the United States. Its home health services include patient education, pain management, wound care and dressing changes, cardiac rehabilitation, infusion therapy, pharmaceutical administration, and skilled observation and assessment services; practices to treat chronic diseases and conditions, including diabetes, hypertension, arthritis, Alzheimer's disease, low vision, spinal stenosis, Parkinson's disease, osteoporosis, complex wound care and chronic pain, along with disease-specific plans for patients with diabetes, congestive heart failure, post-orthopedic surgery, or injury and respiratory diseases; and physical, occupational and speech therapists provide therapy services. The company offers hospice services, including pain and symptom management, palliative and dietary counseling, social worker visits, spiritual counseling, and bereavement counseling services to meet the individual physical, emotional, spiritual, and psychosocial needs of terminally ill patients and their families. The company was formerly known as Encompass Health Home Health Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to Enhabit, Inc. in March 2022. Enhabit, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

About Agilon Health

agilon health, inc. provides healthcare services for seniors through primary care physicians in the communities of the United States. It offers a platform that manages the total healthcare needs of the patients by subscription-like per-member per-month. The company was formerly known as Agilon Health Topco, Inc. and changed its name to agilon health, inc. in March 2021. agilon health, inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Austin, Texas.