Viemed Healthcare (NASDAQ:VMD – Get Free Report) and Pediatrix Medical Group (NYSE:MD – 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, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, profitability and valuation.
Profitability
This table compares Viemed Healthcare and Pediatrix Medical Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Viemed Healthcare | 5.20% | 10.52% | 7.60% |
| Pediatrix Medical Group | 9.02% | 19.94% | 8.02% |
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for Viemed Healthcare and Pediatrix Medical Group, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Viemed Healthcare | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Pediatrix Medical Group | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2.17 |
Risk and Volatility
Viemed Healthcare has a beta of 1.1, meaning that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pediatrix Medical Group has a beta of 0.66, meaning that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
74.2% of Viemed Healthcare shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.7% of Pediatrix Medical Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.6% of Viemed Healthcare shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Pediatrix Medical Group shares are owned 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.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Viemed Healthcare and Pediatrix Medical Group”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Viemed Healthcare | $270.28 million | 1.66 | $14.93 million | $0.37 | 31.54 |
| Pediatrix Medical Group | $1.93 billion | 1.13 | $165.39 million | $2.06 | 12.86 |
Pediatrix Medical Group has higher revenue and earnings than Viemed Healthcare. Pediatrix Medical Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Viemed Healthcare, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Pediatrix Medical Group beats Viemed Healthcare on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Viemed Healthcare
Viemed Healthcare, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides home medical equipment (HME) and post-acute respiratory healthcare services to patients in the United States. It provides respiratory disease management solutions, including treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which include non-invasive ventilation, percussion vests, and other therapies; and invasive and non-invasive ventilation and related equipment and supplies to patients suffering from COPD. The company leases non-invasive and invasive ventilators, positive airway pressure machines (PAP), durable medical equipment, percussion vests, oxygen concentrators, and other medical equipment; and sells and rents HME devices. In addition, it provides neuromuscular care and oxygen therapy services; and sleep apnea management provides sleep solutions and/or equipment, such as PAP, automatic continuous positive airway pressure, and bi-level positive airway pressure machines. Further, the company offers in home sleep apnea testing services, as well as healthcare staffing and recruitment services. Viemed Healthcare, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Lafayette, Louisiana.
About Pediatrix Medical Group
Pediatrix Medical Group, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides newborn, maternal-fetal, pediatric cardiology, and other pediatric subspecialty care services in the United States. It offers neonatal care services, such as clinical care to babies born prematurely or with complications within specific units at hospitals through neonatal physician subspecialists, neonatal nurse practitioners, and other pediatric clinicians. The company also provides maternal-fetal care services, including inpatient and office-based clinical care to expectant mothers and unborn babies through affiliated maternal-fetal medicine subspecialists, as well as obstetricians and other clinicians, including maternal-fetal nurse practitioners, certified nurse mid-wives, sonographers, and genetic counselors. In addition, it offers pediatric cardiology care services comprising inpatient and office-based pediatric cardiology care of the fetus, infant, child, and adolescent patient with congenital heart defects and acquired heart disease, as well as adults with congenital heart defects through affiliated pediatric cardiologist subspecialists and other related clinical professionals, including pediatric nurse practitioners, echocardiographers, other diagnostic technicians, and exercise physiologists; and specialized cardiac care to the fetus, neonatal and pediatric patients. Further, the company provides other pediatric subspecialty care services, such as pediatric intensivists, pediatric hospitalists, pediatric surgeons, and pediatric ophthalmologists, as well as pediatric ear, nose, and throat physicians, pediatric gastroenterologists; and support services in the areas of hospitals, primarily in the pediatric emergency rooms, labor and delivery areas, and nursery and pediatric departments. The company was formerly known as MEDNAX, Inc. and changed its name to Pediatrix Medical Group, Inc. in July 2022. Pediatrix Medical Group, Inc. was founded in 1979 and is based in Sunrise, Florida.
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