Addus HomeCare (NASDAQ:ADUS) versus Getinge (OTCMKTS:GNGBY) Head to Head Survey

Addus HomeCare (NASDAQ:ADUS) and Getinge (OTCMKTS:GNGBY) are both mid-cap healthcare companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk and earnings.

Risk and Volatility

Addus HomeCare has a beta of 0.83, meaning that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Getinge has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for Addus HomeCare and Getinge, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Addus HomeCare	1	4	5	1	2.55
Getinge	0	4	0	0	2.00

Addus HomeCare presently has a consensus price target of $129.33, suggesting a potential upside of 13.12%. Given Addus HomeCare’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Addus HomeCare is more favorable than Getinge.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Addus HomeCare and Getinge”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Addus HomeCare	$1.42 billion	1.50	$95.91 million	$5.70	20.06
Getinge	$3.57 billion	1.93	$230.87 million	$1.05	24.11

Getinge has higher revenue and earnings than Addus HomeCare. Addus HomeCare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Getinge, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares Addus HomeCare and Getinge’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Addus HomeCare	7.13%	9.96%	7.62%
Getinge	7.81%	11.12%	5.88%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

95.3% of Addus HomeCare shares are held by institutional investors. 4.1% of Addus HomeCare shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Addus HomeCare beats Getinge on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Addus HomeCare

Addus HomeCare Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides personal care services to elderly, chronically ill, disabled persons, and individuals who are at risk of hospitalization or institutionalization in the United States. The company operates through three segments: Personal Care, Hospice, and Home Health. The Personal Care segment provides non-medical assistance with activities of daily living. This segment offers services that include assistance with bathing, grooming, oral care, feeding and dressing, medication reminders, meal planning and preparation, housekeeping, and transportation services. The Hospice segment provides palliative nursing care, social work, spiritual counseling, homemaker, and bereavement counseling services for people who are terminally ill, as well as related services for their families. The Home Health segment offers skilled nursing and physical, occupational, and speech therapy for the individuals who requires assistance during an illness or after hospitalization. The company's payor clients include federal, state, and local governmental agencies; managed care organizations; commercial insurers; and private individuals. Addus HomeCare Corporation was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Frisco, Texas.

About Getinge

Getinge AB (publ) provides products and solutions for operating rooms, intensive-care units, and sterilization departments. The company operates through Acute Care Therapies, Life Science, and Surgical Workflows segments. It offers extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, mechanical ventilation, mechanical circulatory support, advanced patient monitoring, ICU infrastructure equipment, patient flow management, and drainage solutions. The company also provides surgical perfusion, endoscopic vessel harvesting, intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation, and drainage solutions; and operating room infrastructure equipment, anesthesia, advanced patient monitoring, operating room management, and operating room integration solutions. In addition, it offers pre-cleaning, cleaning and disinfection, sterilization, consumables, endoscope reprocessing, and sterile supply management solutions; connected medical devices; bioreactor systems, DPTE systems, Getinge isolators, terminal sterilization products, and sterilizers; and vivarium, biohazardous materials handling solutions, labware cleaning and sterilization, upstream bioprocessing, and bioreactor preparation solutions. It offers its products through a network of sales companies, as well as through agents and distributors in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia and Pacific. Getinge AB (publ) was founded in 1904 and is headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden.