ATRI vs. OSUR, ANIK, CERS, UTMD, ICUI, TMCI, SILK, SIBN, KIDS, and EMBC
Should you be buying Atrion stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Atrion include OraSure Technologies (OSUR), Anika Therapeutics (ANIK), Cerus (CERS), Utah Medical Products (UTMD), ICU Medical (ICUI), Treace Medical Concepts (TMCI), Silk Road Medical (SILK), SI-BONE (SIBN), OrthoPediatrics (KIDS), and Embecta (EMBC). These companies are all part of the "surgical & medical instruments" industry.
Atrion (NASDAQ:ATRI) and OraSure Technologies (NASDAQ:OSUR) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, earnings and media sentiment.
OraSure Technologies has a consensus target price of $6.38, suggesting a potential upside of 25.25%. Given OraSure Technologies' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe OraSure Technologies is more favorable than Atrion.
66.2% of Atrion shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.5% of OraSure Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 22.8% of Atrion shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of OraSure Technologies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Atrion has a beta of 0.62, meaning that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, OraSure Technologies has a beta of 0.23, meaning that its stock price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, OraSure Technologies had 9 more articles in the media than Atrion. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for OraSure Technologies and 1 mentions for Atrion. Atrion's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat OraSure Technologies' score of 0.46 indicating that Atrion is being referred to more favorably in the media.
OraSure Technologies has a net margin of 13.23% compared to Atrion's net margin of 11.46%. OraSure Technologies' return on equity of 14.50% beat Atrion's return on equity.
OraSure Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Atrion. OraSure Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Atrion, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
OraSure Technologies received 419 more outperform votes than Atrion when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.90% of users gave OraSure Technologies an outperform vote while only 55.60% of users gave Atrion an outperform vote.
Summary
OraSure Technologies beats Atrion on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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