Vireo Growth (OTCMKTS:VREOD – Get Free Report) and Elanco Animal Health (NYSE:ELAN – Get Free Report) are both healthcare companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, risk, valuation, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares Vireo Growth and Elanco Animal Health”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Vireo Growth | $268.77 million | 1.68 | -$68.11 million | ($3.30) | -3.02 |
| Elanco Animal Health | $4.71 billion | 2.49 | -$232.00 million | ($0.41) | -57.35 |
Vireo Growth has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Elanco Animal Health. Elanco Animal Health is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vireo Growth, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Risk & Volatility
Vireo Growth has a beta of 1.78, indicating that its share price is 78% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Elanco Animal Health has a beta of 1.7, indicating that its share price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for Vireo Growth and Elanco Animal Health, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Vireo Growth | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
| Elanco Animal Health | 1 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 2.77 |
Elanco Animal Health has a consensus target price of $29.91, indicating a potential upside of 27.20%. Given Elanco Animal Health’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Elanco Animal Health is more favorable than Vireo Growth.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
97.5% of Elanco Animal Health shares are held by institutional investors. 3.8% of Vireo Growth shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Elanco Animal Health shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Profitability
This table compares Vireo Growth and Elanco Animal Health’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Vireo Growth | -23.37% | -19.76% | -7.15% |
| Elanco Animal Health | -3.96% | 8.13% | 3.99% |
Summary
Elanco Animal Health beats Vireo Growth on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Vireo Growth
Goodness Growth Holdings, Inc. operates as a cannabis company in the United States. The company cultivates, processes, and distributes medical and adult-use cannabis products. It sells cannabis products through its network of Green Goods and other Goodness Growth branded retail dispensaries and third-party dispensaries in Maryland, Minnesota, and New York. The company was formerly known as Vireo Health International Inc. and changed its name to Goodness Growth Holdings, Inc. in June 2021. Goodness Growth Holdings, Inc. is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
About Elanco Animal Health
Elanco Animal Health Incorporated, an animal health company, innovates, develops, manufactures, and markets products for pets and farm animals. It offers pet health disease prevention products, such as parasiticide and vaccine products that protect pets from worms, fleas, and ticks under the Seresto, Advantage, Advantix, and Advocate brands; pet health therapeutics for pain, osteoarthritis, ear infections, cardiovascular, and dermatology indications in canines and felines under the Galliprant and Claro brands; vaccines, antibiotics, parasiticides, and other products for use in poultry and aquaculture production, as well as nutritional health products, including enzymes, probiotics, and prebiotics; and a range of vaccines, antibiotics, implants, parasiticides, and other products used in ruminant and swine production under the Rumensin and Baytril brands. The company sells its products to third-party distributors; veterinarians; and farm animal producers, including beef and dairy farmers, as well as pork, poultry, and aquaculture operations. Elanco Animal Health Incorporated was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Greenfield, Indiana.
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