MLSS vs. LFWD, RBOT, NTRB, CLGN, COCH, INGN, AADI, BNGO, RMTI, and DYAI
Should you be buying Milestone Scientific stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Milestone Scientific include ReWalk Robotics (LFWD), Vicarious Surgical (RBOT), Nutriband (NTRB), CollPlant Biotechnologies (CLGN), Envoy Medical (COCH), Inogen (INGN), Aadi Bioscience (AADI), Bionano Genomics (BNGO), Rockwell Medical (RMTI), and Dyadic International (DYAI). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Milestone Scientific (NYSE:MLSS) and ReWalk Robotics (NASDAQ:LFWD) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, valuation, profitability, dividends, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Milestone Scientific has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ReWalk Robotics has a beta of 2.06, suggesting that its stock price is 106% more volatile than the S&P 500.
ReWalk Robotics received 2 more outperform votes than Milestone Scientific when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 100.00% of users gave ReWalk Robotics an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Milestone Scientific an outperform vote.
ReWalk Robotics has a consensus price target of $9.00, indicating a potential upside of 83.67%. Given ReWalk Robotics' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe ReWalk Robotics is more favorable than Milestone Scientific.
Milestone Scientific has higher earnings, but lower revenue than ReWalk Robotics. Milestone Scientific is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ReWalk Robotics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Milestone Scientific has a net margin of -70.50% compared to ReWalk Robotics' net margin of -159.76%. ReWalk Robotics' return on equity of -28.19% beat Milestone Scientific's return on equity.
In the previous week, ReWalk Robotics had 1 more articles in the media than Milestone Scientific. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for ReWalk Robotics and 1 mentions for Milestone Scientific. Milestone Scientific's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat ReWalk Robotics' score of -0.33 indicating that Milestone Scientific is being referred to more favorably in the media.
5.8% of Milestone Scientific shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.8% of ReWalk Robotics shares are owned by institutional investors. 25.2% of Milestone Scientific shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of ReWalk Robotics shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
ReWalk Robotics beats Milestone Scientific on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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