Ambu A/S (OTCMKTS:AMBBY) & Community Health Systems (NYSE:CYH) Financial Comparison

Ambu A/S (OTCMKTS:AMBBY) and Community Health Systems (NYSE:CYH) are both medical companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability and earnings.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current recommendations for Ambu A/S and Community Health Systems, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Ambu A/S	0	0	0	1	4.00
Community Health Systems	2	4	2	0	2.00

Community Health Systems has a consensus target price of $4.17, suggesting a potential upside of 20.25%. Given Community Health Systems’ higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Community Health Systems is more favorable than Ambu A/S.

Profitability

This table compares Ambu A/S and Community Health Systems’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Ambu A/S	6.21%	6.31%	4.97%
Community Health Systems	-3.85%	N/A	-0.87%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

85.0% of Community Health Systems shares are held by institutional investors. 11.7% of Community Health Systems shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Ambu A/S and Community Health Systems”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Ambu A/S	$783.76 million	4.66	$34.17 million	$0.19	81.84
Community Health Systems	$12.63 billion	0.04	-$516.00 million	($3.68)	-0.94

Ambu A/S has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Community Health Systems. Community Health Systems is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ambu A/S, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Volatility & Risk

Ambu A/S has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Community Health Systems has a beta of 2.06, indicating that its share price is 106% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Ambu A/S beats Community Health Systems on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Ambu A/S

Ambu A/S develops, produces, and sells medical devices to hospitals, clinics, and rescue services worldwide. The company offers anaesthesia, and patient monitoring and diagnostics products. The company also offers endoscopy products, such as bronchoscopes, rhinolaryngoscopes, duodenoscopes, cystoscopes, and display units; and neurology products, including EEG and EMG electrodes, EMG guided injections, and intraoperative monitoring products. It also provides cardiology products consisting of airway management and anaesthesia products, such as bronchoscopes, video laryngoscopes, double and single lumen tubes, endobronchial blockers, laryngeal and face masks, breathing bags, and resuscitators. In addition, the company offers extrication collars, CPR breathing barriers, video laryngoscopes, and training manikins. The company was founded in 1937 and is headquartered in Ballerup, Denmark.

About Community Health Systems

Community Health Systems, Inc. owns, leases, and operates general acute care hospitals in the United States. It offers general acute care, emergency room, general and specialty surgery, critical care, internal medicine, obstetrics, diagnostic, psychiatric, and rehabilitation services, as well as skilled nursing and home care services. The company also provides outpatient services at primary care practices, urgent care centers, free-standing emergency departments, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging and diagnostic centers, and direct-to-consumer virtual health visits. The company was incorporated in 1996 and is headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee.