Alignment Healthcare (NASDAQ:ALHC – Get Free Report) and Oncology Institute (NASDAQ:TOI – Get Free Report) are both medical companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk and valuation.
Volatility & Risk
Alignment Healthcare has a beta of 1.16, indicating that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Oncology Institute has a beta of 0.14, indicating that its share price is 86% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
86.2% of Alignment Healthcare shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.9% of Oncology Institute shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.0% of Alignment Healthcare shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.5% of Oncology Institute shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Earnings and Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Alignment Healthcare | $2.70 billion | 1.61 | -$128.04 million | ($0.12) | -181.25 |
| Oncology Institute | $393.41 million | 0.65 | -$64.66 million | ($0.64) | -4.08 |
Oncology Institute has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Alignment Healthcare. Alignment Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Oncology Institute, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Alignment Healthcare and Oncology Institute, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Alignment Healthcare | 1 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 2.71 |
| Oncology Institute | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2.80 |
Alignment Healthcare presently has a consensus price target of $23.32, indicating a potential upside of 7.21%. Oncology Institute has a consensus price target of $6.50, indicating a potential upside of 149.04%. Given Oncology Institute’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Oncology Institute is more favorable than Alignment Healthcare.
Profitability
This table compares Alignment Healthcare and Oncology Institute’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Alignment Healthcare | -0.57% | -16.23% | -2.20% |
| Oncology Institute | -13.21% | -1,527.21% | -35.30% |
Summary
Alignment Healthcare beats Oncology Institute on 9 of the 14 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 Oncology Institute
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The Oncology Institute, Inc., an oncology company, provides various medical oncology services in the United States. The company operates through three segments: Dispensary, Patient Services, and Clinical Trials & Other. It offers physician services, in-house infusion and dispensary, clinical trial, radiation, outpatient blood product transfusion, and patient support services, as well as educational seminars, support groups, and counseling services. The company also provides managing clinical trials, palliative care programs, stem cell transplants services, and other care delivery models associated with non-community-based academic and tertiary care settings; and conducts clinical trials for a range of pharmaceutical and medical device companies. It serves adult and senior cancer patients. The company has a strategic collaboration with Healthly Forge to offer cancer care services to patients in Southern California. The Oncology Institute, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Cerritos, California.
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