OSUR vs. ANIK, CERS, UTMD, ATRI, SKIN, SRDX, PLSE, NVRO, NPCE, and OFIX
Should you be buying OraSure Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of OraSure Technologies include Anika Therapeutics (ANIK), Cerus (CERS), Utah Medical Products (UTMD), Atrion (ATRI), Beauty Health (SKIN), Surmodics (SRDX), Pulse Biosciences (PLSE), Nevro (NVRO), NeuroPace (NPCE), and Orthofix Medical (OFIX). These companies are all part of the "surgical & medical instruments" industry.
Anika Therapeutics (NASDAQ:ANIK) and OraSure Technologies (NASDAQ:OSUR) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, earnings, risk, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership and profitability.
Anika Therapeutics has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, OraSure Technologies has a beta of 0.15, indicating that its share price is 85% less volatile than the S&P 500.
91.5% of Anika Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.5% of OraSure Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 5.9% of Anika Therapeutics shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of OraSure Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, OraSure Technologies had 1 more articles in the media than Anika Therapeutics. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for OraSure Technologies and 4 mentions for Anika Therapeutics. OraSure Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.14 beat Anika Therapeutics' score of 0.01 indicating that Anika Therapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the media.
OraSure Technologies received 248 more outperform votes than Anika Therapeutics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.86% of users gave OraSure Technologies an outperform vote while only 64.30% of users gave Anika Therapeutics an outperform vote.
OraSure Technologies has a net margin of 13.23% compared to OraSure Technologies' net margin of -49.60%. Anika Therapeutics' return on equity of 14.50% beat OraSure Technologies' return on equity.
Anika Therapeutics currently has a consensus target price of $29.50, indicating a potential upside of 15.37%. OraSure Technologies has a consensus target price of $6.38, indicating a potential upside of 19.83%. Given Anika Therapeutics' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe OraSure Technologies is more favorable than Anika Therapeutics.
OraSure Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Anika Therapeutics. Anika Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than OraSure Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
OraSure Technologies beats Anika Therapeutics on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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