MBOT vs. NXGL, PETV, BTCY, GCTK, SSKN, MHUA, NURO, PAVM, TTOO, and VAPO
Should you be buying Microbot Medical stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Microbot Medical include NEXGEL (NXGL), PetVivo (PETV), Biotricity (BTCY), GlucoTrack (GCTK), STRATA Skin Sciences (SSKN), Meihua International Medical Technologies (MHUA), NeuroMetrix (NURO), PAVmed (PAVM), T2 Biosystems (TTOO), and Vapotherm (VAPO). These companies are all part of the "surgical & medical instruments" industry.
Microbot Medical (NASDAQ:MBOT) and NEXGEL (NASDAQ:NXGL) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, dividends and media sentiment.
Microbot Medical has a net margin of 0.00% compared to NEXGEL's net margin of -77.19%. NEXGEL's return on equity of -49.49% beat Microbot Medical's return on equity.
Microbot Medical presently has a consensus price target of $7.00, indicating a potential upside of 647.07%. Given Microbot Medical's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Microbot Medical is more favorable than NEXGEL.
16.3% of Microbot Medical shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.2% of NEXGEL shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.6% of Microbot Medical shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 27.2% of NEXGEL shares are owned 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.
Microbot Medical has a beta of 1.7, indicating that its share price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NEXGEL has a beta of 0.8, indicating that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, NEXGEL had 2 more articles in the media than Microbot Medical. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for NEXGEL and 0 mentions for Microbot Medical. Microbot Medical's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled NEXGEL'saverage media sentiment score.
Microbot Medical received 345 more outperform votes than NEXGEL when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.61% of users gave Microbot Medical an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave NEXGEL an outperform vote.
NEXGEL has higher revenue and earnings than Microbot Medical. NEXGEL is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Microbot Medical, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Microbot Medical beats NEXGEL on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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