GoodRx (NASDAQ:GDRX – Get Free Report) and Sonic Healthcare (OTCMKTS:SKHHY – Get Free Report) are both medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
63.8% of GoodRx shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.0% of Sonic Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. 5.9% of GoodRx shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Profitability
This table compares GoodRx and Sonic Healthcare’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| GoodRx | 2.61% | 7.90% | 3.23% |
| Sonic Healthcare | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Valuation and Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| GoodRx | $796.85 million | 1.04 | $30.44 million | $0.06 | 40.50 |
| Sonic Healthcare | $6.25 billion | 1.06 | $332.61 million | N/A | N/A |
Sonic Healthcare has higher revenue and earnings than GoodRx.
Volatility & Risk
GoodRx has a beta of 1.54, indicating that its share price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sonic Healthcare has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of current ratings for GoodRx and Sonic Healthcare, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| GoodRx | 3 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2.13 |
| Sonic Healthcare | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.50 |
GoodRx currently has a consensus price target of $3.81, suggesting a potential upside of 56.89%. Given GoodRx’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe GoodRx is more favorable than Sonic Healthcare.
Summary
GoodRx beats Sonic Healthcare on 9 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
About GoodRx
GoodRx Holdings, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, offers information and tools that enable consumers to compare prices and save on their prescription drug purchases in the United States. The company operates a price comparison platform that provides consumers with curated, geographically relevant prescription pricing, and access to negotiated prices. It also offers other healthcare products and services, including subscriptions, and pharma manufacturer solutions, as well as telehealth services through the GoodRx Care platform. It serves pharmacy benefit managers who manage formularies and prescription transactions, including establishing pricing between consumers and pharmacies. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.
About Sonic Healthcare
Sonic Healthcare Limited offers medical diagnostic services to medical practitioners, hospitals, community health services, and their collective patients. The company provides laboratory medicine/pathology testing services, such as biochemistry, cytopathology, genetics, haematology, histopathology, immunoserology, microbiology, molecular pathology, prenatal testing, toxicology, and ancillary functions; and radiology services, including magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography (CT), ultrasound, X-ray, mammography, nuclear medicine, PET CT, interventional procedures, and bone mineral densitometry. It offers primary care medical services comprising general practice clinics, occupational health services, skin cancer clinics, after-hours general practice services, general practice IT solutions, and community-based healthcare services. The company operates in Australia, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the United States, Germany, Switzerland, New Zealand, Belgium, and internationally. Sonic Healthcare Limited was incorporated in 1934 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.
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