Which is more profitable, Elevance Health or UnitedHealth?

Elevance Health keeps more of every sale as profit.

Which grows faster, Elevance Health or UnitedHealth?

UnitedHealth grew its sales faster in recent years.

Which is cheaper, Elevance Health or UnitedHealth?

Elevance Health costs less for each unit of yearly profit (lower P/E).

Which has less debt, Elevance Health or UnitedHealth?

Elevance Health would need fewer years of earnings to pay off its debt.

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Elevance Health vs UnitedHealth stock

Side by side in plain words: who keeps more of its sales, grows faster, costs less and owes less.

In one sentence

Elevance Health is more profitable, is cheaper for its profits and has less debt. UnitedHealth grows faster.

Side by side

	Elevance Health	UnitedHealth
	$92.8 billion	$365 billion
	2.8%	2.7%
	+9.5%	+11.7%
	16.4×	30.3×
	2.3 years	2.3 years
	8.7%	8.8%
	1.7%	2.3%

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How we compare

Four contests with the same rules as each stock page: profit kept from sales (higher wins), yearly sales growth across the last reports, up to five years (higher wins), price per unit of yearly profit (lower P/E wins; a company without profit loses) and debt in years of earnings (lower wins). A winner is only named when both companies have the number.

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