Healthcare Services Group (NASDAQ:HCSG – Get Free Report) and HomeServe (OTCMKTS:HMSVY – Get Free Report) are both industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability and earnings.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Healthcare Services Group and HomeServe”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Healthcare Services Group | $1.86 billion | 0.84 | $59.06 million | $1.72 | 13.25 |
| HomeServe | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Healthcare Services Group and HomeServe, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Healthcare Services Group | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 2.89 |
| HomeServe | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
Healthcare Services Group presently has a consensus target price of $26.50, suggesting a potential upside of 16.30%. Given Healthcare Services Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Healthcare Services Group is more favorable than HomeServe.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
98.0% of Healthcare Services Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.0% of HomeServe shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.9% of Healthcare Services Group shares are owned 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.
Profitability
This table compares Healthcare Services Group and HomeServe’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Healthcare Services Group | 6.59% | 18.97% | 11.96% |
| HomeServe | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Summary
Healthcare Services Group beats HomeServe on 10 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Healthcare Services Group
Healthcare Services Group, Inc. provides management, administrative, and operating services to the housekeeping, laundry, linen, facility maintenance, and dietary service departments of nursing homes, retirement complexes, rehabilitation centers, and hospitals in the United States. It operates through two segments, Housekeeping and Dietary. The Housekeeping segment engages in the cleaning, disinfecting, and sanitizing of resident rooms and common areas of the customers' facilities, as well as laundering and processing of the bed linens, uniforms, resident personal clothing, and other assorted linen items utilized at the customers' facilities. The Dietary segment provides food purchasing, meal preparation, and professional dietitian services, which include the development of menus that meet the dietary needs of residents; and on-site management and clinical consulting services to facilities. It serves long-term and post-acute care facilities, hospitals, and the healthcare industry through referrals and solicitation of target facilities. The company was incorporated in 1976 and is based in Bensalem, Pennsylvania.
About HomeServe
HomeServe Plc engages in the provision of home emergency and repair services. It operates through the Membership & Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning and Home Experts segments. The company was founded by Richard David Harpin and Jeremy Peter Middleton in 1993 and is headquartered in Walsall, the United Kingdom.
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