Financial Analysis: Agilon Health (AGL) versus Its Peers

Agilon Health (NYSE:AGL) is one of 233 public companies in the “Healthcare Providers & Services” industry, but how does it compare to its competitors? We will compare Agilon Health to similar businesses based on the strength of its institutional ownership, risk, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and earnings.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Agilon Health and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Agilon Health	$5.93 billion	-$391.35 million	-6.07
Agilon Health Competitors	$21.31 billion	$288.54 million	7.17

Agilon Health’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Agilon Health. Agilon Health is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Agilon Health and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Agilon Health	2	6	6	0	2.29
Agilon Health Competitors	1843	7702	13249	815	2.55

Agilon Health currently has a consensus target price of $102.25, indicating a potential upside of 18.09%. As a group, “Healthcare Providers & Services” companies have a potential upside of 15.73%. Given Agilon Health’s higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Agilon Health is more favorable than its competitors.

Volatility and Risk

Agilon Health has a beta of 3.1, indicating that its share price is 210% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Agilon Health’s competitors have a beta of 0.97, indicating that their average share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

56.8% of shares of all “Healthcare Providers & Services” companies are owned by institutional investors. 2.5% of Agilon Health shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 15.0% of shares of all “Healthcare Providers & Services” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Agilon Health and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Agilon Health	-3.92%	-119.38%	-16.85%
Agilon Health Competitors	-7.78%	-141.29%	-1.53%

Summary

Agilon Health competitors beat Agilon Health on 9 of the 13 factors compared.

About Agilon Health

agilon health, inc. provides healthcare services for seniors through primary care physicians in the communities of the United States. It offers a platform that manages the total healthcare needs of the patients by subscription-like per-member per-month. The company was formerly known as Agilon Health Topco, Inc. and changed its name to agilon health, inc. in March 2021. agilon health, inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Austin, Texas.