MXCT vs. NIOX, EKF, CREO, OXB, BMK, BVXP, TSTL, HVO, AMS, and APH
Should you be buying MaxCyte stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MaxCyte include NIOX Group (NIOX), EKF Diagnostics (EKF), Creo Medical Group (CREO), Oxford Biomedica (OXB), Benchmark (BMK), Bioventix (BVXP), Tristel (TSTL), hVIVO (HVO), Advanced Medical Solutions Group (AMS), and Alliance Pharma (APH). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
MaxCyte (LON:MXCT) and NIOX Group (LON:NIOX) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, risk and community ranking.
NIOX Group has a consensus price target of GBX 77, indicating a potential upside of 5.89%. Given NIOX Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe NIOX Group is more favorable than MaxCyte.
MaxCyte has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NIOX Group has a beta of 0.92, indicating that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
76.3% of MaxCyte shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.0% of NIOX Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of MaxCyte shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 54.5% of NIOX Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
NIOX Group has a net margin of 29.08% compared to MaxCyte's net margin of -91.85%. NIOX Group's return on equity of 11.47% beat MaxCyte's return on equity.
In the previous week, MaxCyte's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled NIOX Group'saverage media sentiment score.
NIOX Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than MaxCyte. MaxCyte is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NIOX Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
MaxCyte received 152 more outperform votes than NIOX Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave NIOX Group an outperform vote while only 68.92% of users gave MaxCyte an outperform vote.
Summary
NIOX Group beats MaxCyte on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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