Reviewing BrightSpring Health Services (NASDAQ:BTSG) & Nutex Health (NASDAQ:NUTX)

BrightSpring Health Services (NASDAQ:BTSG) and Nutex Health (NASDAQ:NUTX) are both healthcare companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, profitability, dividends, valuation and institutional ownership.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for BrightSpring Health Services and Nutex Health, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
BrightSpring Health Services	0	1	18	1	3.00
Nutex Health	0	1	3	0	2.75

BrightSpring Health Services presently has a consensus price target of $70.71, suggesting a potential upside of 12.86%. Nutex Health has a consensus price target of $317.50, suggesting a potential upside of 55.36%. Given Nutex Health’s higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Nutex Health is more favorable than BrightSpring Health Services.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

5.3% of Nutex Health shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.8% of BrightSpring Health Services shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 44.7% of Nutex Health shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares BrightSpring Health Services and Nutex Health’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
BrightSpring Health Services	2.55%	16.73%	5.24%
Nutex Health	21.25%	39.74%	18.91%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares BrightSpring Health Services and Nutex Health”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
BrightSpring Health Services	$12.91 billion	0.96	$190.67 million	$1.66	37.74
Nutex Health	$875.26 million	1.60	$70.79 million	$25.47	8.02

BrightSpring Health Services has higher revenue and earnings than Nutex Health. Nutex 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.

Risk and Volatility

BrightSpring Health Services has a beta of 1.87, suggesting that its share price is 87% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nutex Health has a beta of 0.55, suggesting that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Nutex Health beats BrightSpring Health Services on 8 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 Nutex Health

Nutex Health Inc. operates as a physician-led, healthcare services, and operations company. It operates through three segments: Hospital, Population Health Management (PHM), and Real Estate. The PHM segment establishes and operates independent physician associations; and offers a cloud-based platform for healthcare organizations to provide value-based care and population health management. The Real Estate segment owns and owns and leases land and hospital building. The Hospital segment develops and operates a network of micro-hospitals, specialty hospitals and hospital outpatient departments which offers 24/7 care. It also provides operational and managerial services, including management, billing, collections, human resources and recruiting, legal, accounting, and marketing. In addition, the company offers healthcare services, including emergency room care, inpatient care, and behavioral health, as well as onsite imaging, such as CT scan, X-ray, MRI, ultrasound, etc.; certified and accredited laboratories; and onsite inpatient pharmacies. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Houston, Texas.