OMI vs. PDCO, PTCT, MRVI, GLPG, KROS, AMPH, BEAM, NAMS, GERN, and RNA
Should you be buying Owens & Minor stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Owens & Minor include Patterson Companies (PDCO), PTC Therapeutics (PTCT), Maravai LifeSciences (MRVI), Galapagos (GLPG), Keros Therapeutics (KROS), Amphastar Pharmaceuticals (AMPH), Beam Therapeutics (BEAM), NewAmsterdam Pharma (NAMS), Geron (GERN), and Avidity Biosciences (RNA). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Owens & Minor (NYSE:OMI) and Patterson Companies (NASDAQ:PDCO) are both medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, risk, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Owens & Minor presently has a consensus target price of $23.29, indicating a potential downside of 7.19%. Patterson Companies has a consensus target price of $32.56, indicating a potential upside of 26.33%. Given Patterson Companies' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Patterson Companies is more favorable than Owens & Minor.
Patterson Companies received 110 more outperform votes than Owens & Minor when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 52.41% of users gave Patterson Companies an outperform vote while only 48.82% of users gave Owens & Minor an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Patterson Companies had 13 more articles in the media than Owens & Minor. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Patterson Companies and 6 mentions for Owens & Minor. Owens & Minor's average media sentiment score of 0.07 beat Patterson Companies' score of -0.12 indicating that Owens & Minor is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Owens & Minor has a beta of 0.43, indicating that its stock price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Patterson Companies has a beta of 1.06, indicating that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Patterson Companies has a net margin of 2.95% compared to Owens & Minor's net margin of -0.40%. Patterson Companies' return on equity of 20.98% beat Owens & Minor's return on equity.
98.0% of Owens & Minor shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.4% of Patterson Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.6% of Owens & Minor shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Patterson Companies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Patterson Companies has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Owens & Minor. Owens & Minor is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Patterson Companies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Patterson Companies beats Owens & Minor on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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