Critical Contrast: Elevance Health (NYSE:ELV) & Selectis Health (OTCMKTS:GBCS)

Selectis Health (OTCMKTS:GBCS) and Elevance Health (NYSE:ELV) are both medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations and valuation.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

89.2% of Elevance Health shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.2% of Selectis Health shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Elevance Health shares are owned 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.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Selectis Health and Elevance Health”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Selectis Health	$39.49 million	0.33	-$2.42 million	($0.27)	-15.56
Elevance Health	$199.13 billion	0.32	$5.66 billion	$25.12	11.39

Elevance Health has higher revenue and earnings than Selectis Health. Selectis Health is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Elevance Health, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Volatility & Risk

Selectis Health has a beta of -1.03, suggesting that its stock price is 203% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Elevance Health has a beta of 0.51, suggesting that its stock price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Selectis Health and Elevance Health’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Selectis Health	-1.87%	N/A	-2.34%
Elevance Health	2.84%	15.59%	5.60%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Selectis Health and Elevance Health, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Selectis Health	0	0	0	0	0.00
Elevance Health	1	9	12	0	2.50

Elevance Health has a consensus target price of $387.40, suggesting a potential upside of 35.35%. Given Elevance Health’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Elevance Health is more favorable than Selectis Health.

Summary

Elevance Health beats Selectis Health on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Selectis Health

Selectis Health owns and/or operates healthcare facilities in Arkansas, Georgia, Ohio, and Oklahoma, providing a wide array of living services, speech, occupational, physical therapies, social services, and other rehabilitation and healthcare services. Selectis focuses on building strategic relationships with local communities in which its partnership can improve the quality of care for facility residents. With its focused growth strategy, Selectis intends to deepen its American Southcentral and Southeastern market presence to better serve the aging population along a full continuum of care.

About Elevance Health

Elevance Health, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a health benefits company in the United States. The company operates through four segments: Health Benefits, CarelonRx, Carelon Services, and Corporate & Other. It offers a variety of health plans and services to program members; health products; an array of fee-based administrative managed care services; and specialty and other insurance products and services, such as stop loss, dental, vision, life, disability, and supplemental health insurance benefits. The company operates in the pharmacy services business; and markets and offers pharmacy services, including pharmacy benefit management, as well as home delivery and specialty pharmacies, claims adjudication, formulary management, pharmacy networks, rebate administration, a prescription drug database, and member services. In addition, it provides healthcare-related services and capabilities, including utilization management, behavioral health, integrated care delivery, palliative care, payment integrity services, subrogation services, and health and wellness programs, as well as services related to data management, information technology, and business operations. Further, the company is involved in the National Government Services business. The company provides its services under the Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Wellpoint, and Carelon brand names. The company was formerly known as Anthem, Inc. and changed its name to Elevance Health, Inc. in June 2022. Elevance Health, Inc. was incorporated in 2001 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.