Clover Health Investments (NASDAQ:CLOV – Get Free Report) and Agilon Health (NYSE:AGL – Get Free Report) are both healthcare companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for Clover Health Investments and Agilon Health, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Clover Health Investments | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Agilon Health | 2 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2.21 |
Clover Health Investments presently has a consensus target price of $4.33, suggesting a potential downside of 0.15%. Agilon Health has a consensus target price of $97.70, suggesting a potential upside of 4.20%. Given Agilon Health’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Agilon Health is more favorable than Clover Health Investments.
Earnings & Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Clover Health Investments | $1.92 billion | 1.20 | -$85.55 million | ($0.05) | -86.80 |
| Agilon Health | $5.93 billion | 0.27 | -$391.35 million | ($14.27) | -6.57 |
Clover Health Investments has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Agilon Health. Clover Health Investments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Agilon Health, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Volatility and Risk
Clover Health Investments has a beta of 2.47, suggesting that its share price is 147% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Agilon Health has a beta of 3.02, suggesting that its share price is 202% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares Clover Health Investments and Agilon Health’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Clover Health Investments | -0.74% | -4.20% | -2.28% |
| Agilon Health | -3.92% | -119.38% | -16.85% |
Institutional & Insider Ownership
19.8% of Clover Health Investments shares are held by institutional investors. 23.5% of Clover Health Investments shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of Agilon Health shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Clover Health Investments beats Agilon Health on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Clover Health Investments
Clover Health Investments, Corp. provides medicare advantage plans in the United States. It operates through two segments: Insurance and Non-Insurance. It also offers Clover Assistant, a cloud-based software platform, that enables physicians to detect, identify, and manage chronic diseases earlier; and access to data-driven and personalized insights for the patients they treat. Clover Health Investments, Corp. is based in Franklin, Tennessee.
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.
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