Guardant Health (NASDAQ:GH – Get Free Report) and Privia Health Group (NASDAQ:PRVA – Get Free Report) are both healthcare companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and risk.
Risk and Volatility
Guardant Health has a beta of 1.58, suggesting that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Privia Health Group has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares Guardant Health and Privia Health Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Guardant Health | -38.33% | N/A | -25.40% |
| Privia Health Group | 1.19% | 3.52% | 2.00% |
Earnings and Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Guardant Health | $982.02 million | 22.89 | -$416.28 million | ($3.49) | -47.99 |
| Privia Health Group | $2.12 billion | 1.25 | $22.92 million | $0.21 | 99.29 |
Privia Health Group has higher revenue and earnings than Guardant Health. Guardant Health is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Privia Health Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for Guardant Health and Privia Health Group, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Guardant Health | 1 | 0 | 23 | 1 | 2.96 |
| Privia Health Group | 0 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 2.79 |
Guardant Health currently has a consensus price target of $189.38, indicating a potential upside of 13.08%. Privia Health Group has a consensus price target of $31.00, indicating a potential upside of 48.68%. Given Privia Health Group’s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Privia Health Group is more favorable than Guardant Health.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
92.6% of Guardant Health shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.5% of Privia Health Group shares are held by institutional investors. 5.6% of Guardant Health shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.7% of Privia Health Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Privia Health Group beats Guardant Health on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Guardant Health
Guardant Health, Inc., a precision oncology company, provides blood and tissue tests, data sets, and analytics in the United States and internationally. The company provides Guardant360; Guardant360 LDT; Guardant360 CDx Test; Guardant360 Response Test; Guardant360 TissueNext Test; GuardantINFINITY Test; GuardantConnect, an integrated software-based solution designed for clinical and biopharmaceutical customers to connect patients tested with assays with actionable alterations with potentially relevant clinical studies; GuardantOMNI Test for advanced stage cancer; and GuardantINFORM, an in-silico research platform for tumor evolution and treatment resistance across various biomarker-driven cancers. It offers Shield Test; Guardant Reveal Test for adjuvant treatment selection in early-stage cancer patients; Smart Liquid Biopsy Platform; and Guardant Galaxy, an AI-backed digital pathology platform that helps improve cancer biomarker detection. In addition, the company offers development services, including companion diagnostic development and regulatory approval, clinical study setup, monitoring and maintenance, testing development and support, technologies licensing, and kits fulfillment. The company has a collaboration agreement with Illumina, Inc. for the sharing of specimen samples to advance cancer research. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
About Privia Health Group
Privia Health Group, Inc. operates as a national physician-enablement company in the United States. The company collaborates with medical groups, health plans, and health systems to optimize physician practices, enhance patient experiences, and reward doctors for delivering care in-person and virtual settings. It offers technology and population health tools to enhance independent providers' workflows; management services organization that enable providers to focus on their patients by reducing administrative work; single-TIN medical group that facilitates payer negotiation, clinical integration and alignment of financial incentives; accountable care organization, which engage patients, reduce inappropriate utilization, and enhance coordination and patient quality metrics to drive value-based care; and network for purchasers and payers that enable providers to connect with new patient populations and create custom contracts. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.
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