UTMD vs. CERS, ANIK, OSUR, CTSO, CODX, ATRI, RCEL, SGHT, ANGO, and INO
Should you be buying Utah Medical Products stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Utah Medical Products include Cerus (CERS), Anika Therapeutics (ANIK), OraSure Technologies (OSUR), Cytosorbents (CTSO), Co-Diagnostics (CODX), Atrion (ATRI), AVITA Medical (RCEL), Sight Sciences (SGHT), AngioDynamics (ANGO), and Inovio Pharmaceuticals (INO). These companies are all part of the "surgical & medical instruments" industry.
Cerus (NASDAQ:CERS) and Utah Medical Products (NASDAQ:UTMD) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings and valuation.
78.4% of Cerus shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.6% of Utah Medical Products shares are held by institutional investors. 7.1% of Cerus shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.6% of Utah Medical Products shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Utah Medical Products has a net margin of 33.40% compared to Utah Medical Products' net margin of -23.98%. Cerus' return on equity of 13.15% beat Utah Medical Products' return on equity.
Cerus currently has a consensus price target of $3.50, suggesting a potential upside of 104.68%. Given Utah Medical Products' higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Cerus is more favorable than Utah Medical Products.
Cerus has a beta of 1.29, indicating that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Utah Medical Products has a beta of 0.12, indicating that its stock price is 88% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Cerus received 415 more outperform votes than Utah Medical Products when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.23% of users gave Cerus an outperform vote while only 61.29% of users gave Utah Medical Products an outperform vote.
Utah Medical Products has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Cerus. Cerus is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Utah Medical Products, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Utah Medical Products had 6 more articles in the media than Cerus. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Utah Medical Products and 2 mentions for Cerus. Cerus' average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat Utah Medical Products' score of 0.00 indicating that Utah Medical Products is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Utah Medical Products beats Cerus on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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