Alignment Healthcare (NASDAQ:ALHC) & Sonic Healthcare (OTCMKTS:SKHHY) Head to Head Contrast

Alignment Healthcare (NASDAQ:ALHC) and Sonic Healthcare (OTCMKTS:SKHHY) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, profitability, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Alignment Healthcare and Sonic Healthcare, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Alignment Healthcare	1	3	8	1	2.69
Sonic Healthcare	1	0	1	0	2.00

Alignment Healthcare currently has a consensus price target of $23.95, indicating a potential upside of 24.61%. Sonic Healthcare has a consensus price target of $30.15, indicating a potential upside of 76.80%. Given Sonic Healthcare’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Sonic Healthcare is more favorable than Alignment Healthcare.

Volatility and Risk

Alignment Healthcare has a beta of 1.16, indicating that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sonic Healthcare has a beta of 0.8, indicating that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

86.2% of Alignment Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.0% of Sonic Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. 7.0% of Alignment Healthcare shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Alignment Healthcare and Sonic Healthcare’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Alignment Healthcare	-0.02%	-0.53%	-0.07%
Sonic Healthcare	N/A	N/A	N/A

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Alignment Healthcare and Sonic Healthcare”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Alignment Healthcare	$3.64 billion	1.06	-$128.04 million	($0.01)	-1,922.00
Sonic Healthcare	$6.25 billion	1.35	$332.61 million	N/A	N/A

Sonic Healthcare has higher revenue and earnings than Alignment Healthcare.

Summary

Sonic Healthcare beats Alignment Healthcare on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Alignment Healthcare

Alignment Healthcare, Inc., a tech-enabled Medicare advantage company, operates consumer-centric health care platform for seniors in the United States. It provides customized health care designed to meet the needs of a diverse array of seniors through its Medicare advantage plans. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Orange, 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.