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ACHC vs UNH

Side-by-side comparison of Acadia Healthcare Company Inc. (ACHC) and UnitedHealth Group Incorporated (UNH): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both ACHC and UNH operate in Medical Specialities (Health Care), so they compete in similar markets.
  • UNH is the larger of the two at $362.78B, about 161.1x ACHC ($2.25B).
  • Over the past year, ACHC is up 15.2% and UNH is up 34.2% - UNH leads by 19.0 points.
  • UNH has been more active in the news (7 items in the past 4 weeks vs 2 for ACHC).
  • Both have 25 recent analyst ratings on file.
PerformanceACHC+15.16%UNH+34.19%
2025-06-09+0.00%2026-06-08
MetricACHCUNH
Company
Acadia Healthcare Company Inc.
UnitedHealth Group Incorporated
Price
$25.30+3.39%
$406.66+1.77%
Market cap
$2.25B
$362.78B
1M return
+3.52%
+10.01%
1Y return
+15.16%
+34.19%
Industry
Medical Specialities
Medical Specialities
Exchange
NASDAQ
NYSE
IPO
News (4w)
2
7
Recent ratings
25
25
ACHC

Acadia Healthcare Company Inc.

Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. develops and operates inpatient psychiatric facilities, residential treatment centers, group homes, substance abuse facilities, and outpatient behavioral healthcare facilities to serve the behavioral health and recovery needs of communities in the United States and Puerto Rico. The company operates acute inpatient psychiatric facilities, which cares to stabilize patients that are either threat to themselves or others by hourly observation, daily intervention, and monitoring by psychiatrists; and specialty treatment facilities, including residential recovery and eating disorder facilities, and comprehensive treatment centers that provide continuum care for adults with addictive disorders and co-occurring mental disorders. It also provides residential treatment centers, which treat patients with behavioral disorders in a non-hospital setting, including outdoor programs; and outpatient community-based services, such as community-based programs that are designed to offer therapeutic treatment to children and adolescents who have a clinically-defined emotional, psychiatric, or chemical dependency disorders. In addition, the company provides education and children's, and adult care services. As of March 31, 2021, it operated a network of 228 behavioral healthcare facilities with approximately 10,000 beds. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee.

UNH

UnitedHealth Group Incorporated

UnitedHealth Group Incorporated operates as a diversified health care company in the United States. It operates through four segments: UnitedHealthcare, OptumHealth, OptumInsight, and OptumRx. The UnitedHealthcare segment offers consumer-oriented health benefit plans and services for national employers, public sector employers, mid-sized employers, small businesses, and individuals; health and well-being services to individuals age 50 and older, addressing their needs for preventive and acute health care services, as well as services dealing with chronic disease and other specialized issues for older individuals; Medicaid plans, children's health insurance program, and health care programs; medical and dental benefits; and hospital and clinical services. The OptumHealth segment provides access to networks of care provider specialists, health management services, care delivery, consumer engagement, and financial services. This segment serves individuals directly through care delivery systems, employers, payers, and government entities. The OptumInsight segment offers software and information products, advisory consulting arrangements, and managed services outsourcing contracts to hospital systems, physicians, health plans, governments, life sciences companies, and other organizations. The OptumRx segment provides pharmacy care services and programs, including retail network contracting, home delivery, specialty and compounding pharmacy, and purchasing and clinical, as well as develops programs in areas, such as step therapy, formulary management, drug adherence, and disease/drug therapy management. UnitedHealth Group Incorporated has partnership with the University of California, San Francisco to expand the mental health workforce in California. UnitedHealth Group Incorporated was incorporated in 1977 and is based in Minnetonka, Minnesota.

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