Ryman Healthcare (OTCMKTS:RYHTY) and Sonic Healthcare (OTCMKTS:SKHHY) Critical Survey

Sonic Healthcare (OTCMKTS:SKHHY) and Ryman Healthcare (OTCMKTS:RYHTY) are both medical companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, risk and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations for Sonic Healthcare and Ryman Healthcare, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Sonic Healthcare	0	0	1	0	3.00
Ryman Healthcare	0	0	0	0	0.00

Sonic Healthcare presently has a consensus target price of $30.15, indicating a potential upside of 100.25%. Given Sonic Healthcare’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Sonic Healthcare is more favorable than Ryman Healthcare.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Sonic Healthcare and Ryman Healthcare”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Sonic Healthcare	$6.25 billion	1.19	$332.61 million	N/A	N/A
Ryman Healthcare	$451.64 million	N/A	-$259.39 million	N/A	N/A

Sonic Healthcare has higher revenue and earnings than Ryman Healthcare.

Volatility and Risk

Sonic Healthcare has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ryman Healthcare has a beta of 0.59, meaning that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Sonic Healthcare	N/A	N/A	N/A
Ryman Healthcare	N/A	N/A	N/A

Institutional & Insider Ownership

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

Summary

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

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.

About Ryman Healthcare

Ryman Healthcare Limited develops, owns, and operates integrated retirement villages, rest homes, and hospitals for the elderly in New Zealand and Australia. The company's villages provide a range of retirement living and care options, such as independent townhouses and apartments, and serviced apartments, as well as a care center, which offers rest homes, hospitals, dementia-level care, and respite and day care services. Its villages also provide all-weather bowling green, indoor heated swimming pool and spa, gym, internal atrium, beauty and hair salons, library, dining area, bar, lounges, croquet laws, shops, and movie theatre facilities. The company owns and operates retirement village units and care units. The company was founded in 1984 and is based in Christchurch, New Zealand.