CONCENTRA GROUP HOLDINGS PARENT, INC. vs NATIONAL HEALTHCARE CORP, two Medical Care stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where CON and NHC diverge most: on implied growth (priced in), CON reads -1.4% and NHC reads +12.0%; on debt / equity, CON reads 3.25 and NHC reads 0.00. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's CON price has a different growth bar priced in than NHC (-1.4% implied for CON vs +12.0% for NHC); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. What NHC's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | CON | NHC |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $37.18 | $226.93 |
| Market cap | $4.8B | $3.6B |
| Sector | Medical Care | Medical Care |
| Stage | Growth | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | -1.4% | +12.0% |
| P/E | 24.0 | 25.5 |
| P/B | 9.80 | 3.19 |
| P/S | 2.08 | 2.31 |
| EV/EBITDA | 13.6 | 18.7 |
| Revenue growth | +14.2% | +7.0% |
| Operating margin | 19.0% | 12.0% |
| Net margin | 8.7% | 9.0% |
| Return on equity | 41.0% | 12.4% |
| Return on assets | 6.6% | 9.1% |
| Return on invested capital | 13.7% | 9.6% |
| FCF yield | 5.6% | 4.1% |
| Dividend yield | 0.7% | 1.1% |
| Debt / equity | 3.25 | 0.00 |
| Current ratio | 1.38 | 1.86 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 2.19 | 7.37 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 7 / 9 |
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