CERT vs. DH, TNDM, ACAD, MRUS, ACLX, ENOV, MLTX, OLK, QDEL, and BHC
Should you be buying Certara stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Certara include Definitive Healthcare (DH), Tandem Diabetes Care (TNDM), ACADIA Pharmaceuticals (ACAD), Merus (MRUS), Arcellx (ACLX), Enovis (ENOV), MoonLake Immunotherapeutics (MLTX), Olink Holding AB (publ) (OLK), QuidelOrtho (QDEL), and Bausch Health Companies (BHC). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Definitive Healthcare (NASDAQ:DH) and Certara (NASDAQ:CERT) are both medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, profitability, valuation and earnings.
In the previous week, Definitive Healthcare had 17 more articles in the media than Certara. MarketBeat recorded 35 mentions for Definitive Healthcare and 18 mentions for Certara. Definitive Healthcare's average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Certara's score of -0.04 indicating that Certara is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Definitive Healthcare has a beta of 1.41, indicating that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Certara has a beta of 1.61, indicating that its stock price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Certara has higher revenue and earnings than Definitive Healthcare. Certara is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Definitive Healthcare, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Certara has a net margin of -17.02% compared to Certara's net margin of -78.16%. Definitive Healthcare's return on equity of 4.08% beat Certara's return on equity.
98.7% of Definitive Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.0% of Certara shares are held by institutional investors. 14.8% of Definitive Healthcare shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of Certara shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Certara received 1 more outperform votes than Definitive Healthcare when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 34.92% of users gave Certara an outperform vote while only 30.00% of users gave Definitive Healthcare an outperform vote.
Definitive Healthcare presently has a consensus target price of $9.94, indicating a potential upside of 86.93%. Certara has a consensus target price of $20.06, indicating a potential upside of 18.01%. Given Certara's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Definitive Healthcare is more favorable than Certara.
Summary
Certara beats Definitive Healthcare on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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