Analyzing NeueHealth (NEUE) and Its Competitors

NeueHealth (NYSE:NEUE) is one of 14 publicly-traded companies in the “Hospital & medical service plans” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare NeueHealth to similar companies based on the strength of its institutional ownership, profitability, risk, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations and dividends.

Risk and Volatility

NeueHealth has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NeueHealth’s competitors have a beta of 0.95, meaning that their average stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for NeueHealth and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
NeueHealth	0	1	0	0	2.00
NeueHealth Competitors	94	1116	2552	98	2.69

NeueHealth currently has a consensus price target of $8.00, indicating a potential upside of 35.36%. As a group, “Hospital & medical service plans” companies have a potential upside of 18.89%. Given NeueHealth’s higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe NeueHealth is more favorable than its competitors.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

63.9% of NeueHealth shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.4% of shares of all “Hospital & medical service plans” companies are owned by institutional investors. 64.3% of NeueHealth shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.2% of shares of all “Hospital & medical service plans” companies 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.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
NeueHealth	-71.23%	N/A	-1.21%
NeueHealth Competitors	0.04%	-1.59%	-0.04%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares NeueHealth and its competitors top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
NeueHealth	$1.16 billion	-$1.15 billion	-0.04
NeueHealth Competitors	$80.60 billion	$2.78 billion	8.68

NeueHealth’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than NeueHealth. NeueHealth 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.

Summary

NeueHealth competitors beat NeueHealth on 10 of the 13 factors compared.

NeueHealth Company Profile

NeueHealth, Inc., a healthcare company, provides health insurance policies in the United States. It operates in two segments, Bright HealthCare and Consumer Care. The Consumer Care segment delivers virtual and in-person clinical care services contracts through primary care clinics. It operates managed and affiliated risk-bearing clinics within its integrated care delivery system, which included embedded pharmacy, laboratory, radiology, and population health focused specialty services. The Bright HealthCare segment offers medicare health plan products to consumers. The company was formerly known as Bright Health Group, Inc. and changed its name to NeueHealth, Inc. in January 2024. NeueHealth, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.