PLSE vs. NVRO, SKIN, OSUR, ANIK, BVS, SRDX, NPCE, LUNG, TCMD, and CERS
Should you be buying Pulse Biosciences stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pulse Biosciences include Nevro (NVRO), Beauty Health (SKIN), OraSure Technologies (OSUR), Anika Therapeutics (ANIK), Bioventus (BVS), Surmodics (SRDX), NeuroPace (NPCE), Pulmonx (LUNG), Tactile Systems Technology (TCMD), and Cerus (CERS). These companies are all part of the "surgical & medical instruments" industry.
Nevro (NYSE:NVRO) and Pulse Biosciences (NASDAQ:PLSE) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking and dividends.
Nevro currently has a consensus target price of $20.00, suggesting a potential upside of 104.29%. Given Pulse Biosciences' higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Nevro is more favorable than Pulse Biosciences.
In the previous week, Nevro had 22 more articles in the media than Pulse Biosciences. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Nevro and 8 mentions for Pulse Biosciences. Nevro's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Pulse Biosciences' score of 0.26 indicating that Pulse Biosciences is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Pulse Biosciences has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Nevro. Pulse Biosciences is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nevro, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Pulse Biosciences has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Pulse Biosciences' net margin of -19.17%. Pulse Biosciences' return on equity of -27.48% beat Nevro's return on equity.
95.5% of Nevro shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.0% of Pulse Biosciences shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.2% of Nevro shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 71.5% of Pulse Biosciences shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Nevro has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pulse Biosciences has a beta of 1.73, suggesting that its stock price is 73% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Nevro received 256 more outperform votes than Pulse Biosciences when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.84% of users gave Nevro an outperform vote while only 65.17% of users gave Pulse Biosciences an outperform vote.
Summary
Nevro beats Pulse Biosciences on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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