JYNT vs. EDAP, DSGN, SMTI, CDXS, IMMP, AKBA, GLUE, AXGN, SENS, and VMD
Should you be buying Joint stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Joint include Edap Tms (EDAP), Design Therapeutics (DSGN), Sanara MedTech (SMTI), Codexis (CDXS), Immutep (IMMP), Akebia Therapeutics (AKBA), Monte Rosa Therapeutics (GLUE), AxoGen (AXGN), Senseonics (SENS), and Viemed Healthcare (VMD). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Edap Tms (NASDAQ:EDAP) and Joint (NASDAQ:JYNT) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Edap Tms presently has a consensus target price of $14.00, suggesting a potential upside of 108.64%. Joint has a consensus target price of $22.00, suggesting a potential upside of 27.76%. Given Joint's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Edap Tms is more favorable than Joint.
Edap Tms received 65 more outperform votes than Joint when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.84% of users gave Edap Tms an outperform vote while only 62.50% of users gave Joint an outperform vote.
Edap Tms has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Joint has a beta of 1.58, suggesting that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Edap Tms had 7 more articles in the media than Joint. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Edap Tms and 1 mentions for Joint. Edap Tms' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Joint's score of -0.01 indicating that Joint is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Joint has a net margin of -9.24% compared to Joint's net margin of -30.12%. Edap Tms' return on equity of 3.94% beat Joint's return on equity.
Joint has higher revenue and earnings than Edap Tms. Joint is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Edap Tms, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
62.7% of Edap Tms shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.9% of Joint shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Edap Tms shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 30.2% of Joint shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Joint beats Edap Tms on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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