SKIN vs. OSUR, PLSE, NVRO, ANIK, NPCE, SRDX, CVRX, TCMD, GUTS, and HLLY
Should you be buying Beauty Health stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Beauty Health include OraSure Technologies (OSUR), Pulse Biosciences (PLSE), Nevro (NVRO), Anika Therapeutics (ANIK), NeuroPace (NPCE), Surmodics (SRDX), CVRx (CVRX), Tactile Systems Technology (TCMD), Fractyl Health (GUTS), and Holley (HLLY).
Beauty Health (NASDAQ:SKIN) and OraSure Technologies (NASDAQ:OSUR) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk and earnings.
OraSure Technologies has a net margin of 13.23% compared to Beauty Health's net margin of -25.65%. OraSure Technologies' return on equity of 14.50% beat Beauty Health's return on equity.
93.3% of Beauty Health shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.5% of OraSure Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 41.7% of Beauty Health shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of OraSure Technologies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
OraSure Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Beauty Health. Beauty Health is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than OraSure Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Beauty Health has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, OraSure Technologies has a beta of 0.23, suggesting that its share price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Beauty Health presently has a consensus target price of $6.50, indicating a potential upside of 81.06%. OraSure Technologies has a consensus target price of $6.38, indicating a potential upside of 26.36%. Given Beauty Health's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Beauty Health is more favorable than OraSure Technologies.
In the previous week, Beauty Health had 20 more articles in the media than OraSure Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Beauty Health and 10 mentions for OraSure Technologies. Beauty Health's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat OraSure Technologies' score of 0.46 indicating that Beauty Health is being referred to more favorably in the media.
OraSure Technologies received 509 more outperform votes than Beauty Health when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.90% of users gave OraSure Technologies an outperform vote while only 49.37% of users gave Beauty Health an outperform vote.
Summary
OraSure Technologies beats Beauty Health on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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