BrightSpring Health Services (NASDAQ:BTSG) and Enhabit (NYSE:EHAB) Head-To-Head Contrast

BrightSpring Health Services (NASDAQ:BTSG) and Enhabit (NYSE:EHAB) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings and profitability.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for BrightSpring Health Services and Enhabit, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
BrightSpring Health Services	0	0	11	0	3.00
Enhabit	2	4	1	0	1.86

BrightSpring Health Services currently has a consensus price target of $15.75, indicating a potential upside of 44.89%. Enhabit has a consensus price target of $12.08, indicating a potential upside of 3.72%. Given BrightSpring Health Services’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe BrightSpring Health Services is more favorable than Enhabit.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares BrightSpring Health Services and Enhabit’s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
BrightSpring Health Services	$8.83 billion	0.21	N/A	N/A	N/A
Enhabit	$1.05 billion	0.56	-$80.50 million	($1.62)	-7.19

BrightSpring Health Services has higher revenue and earnings than Enhabit.

Profitability

This table compares BrightSpring Health Services and Enhabit’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
BrightSpring Health Services	N/A	N/A	N/A
Enhabit	-7.69%	1.55%	0.76%

Summary

BrightSpring Health Services beats Enhabit on 5 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About BrightSpring Health Services

BrightSpring Health Services, Inc. operates a home and community-based healthcare services platform in the United States. The company's platform focuses on delivering pharmacy and provider services, including clinical and supportive care in home and community settings to Medicare, Medicaid, and insured populations. It serves patients through clinical providers and pharmacists. BrightSpring Health Services, Inc. was formerly known as Phoenix Parent Holdings Inc. and changed its name to BrightSpring Health Services, Inc. in May 2021. The company was founded in 1974 and is based in Louisville, Kentucky.

About Enhabit

Enhabit, Inc. provides home health and hospice services in the United States. Its home health services include patient education, pain management, wound care and dressing changes, cardiac rehabilitation, infusion therapy, pharmaceutical administration, and skilled observation and assessment services; practices to treat chronic diseases and conditions, including diabetes, hypertension, arthritis, Alzheimer's disease, low vision, spinal stenosis, Parkinson's disease, osteoporosis, complex wound care and chronic pain, along with disease-specific plans for patients with diabetes, congestive heart failure, post-orthopedic surgery, or injury and respiratory diseases; and physical, occupational and speech therapists provide therapy services. The company offers hospice services, including pain and symptom management, palliative and dietary counseling, social worker visits, spiritual counseling, and bereavement counseling services to meet the individual physical, emotional, spiritual, and psychosocial needs of terminally ill patients and their families. As of December 31, 2022, it operated in 252 home health agencies and 105 hospice agencies across 23 states. The company was formerly known as Encompass Health Home Health Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to Enhabit, Inc. in March 2022. Enhabit, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Dallas, Texas.