APT vs. INGN, LAKE, MLSS, COCH, RBOT, LFWD, POAI, NAOV, LGMK, and BBLG
Should you be buying Alpha Pro Tech stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alpha Pro Tech include Inogen (INGN), Lakeland Industries (LAKE), Milestone Scientific (MLSS), Envoy Medical (COCH), Vicarious Surgical (RBOT), ReWalk Robotics (LFWD), Predictive Oncology (POAI), NanoVibronix (NAOV), LogicMark (LGMK), and Bone Biologics (BBLG). These companies are all part of the "surgical appliances & supplies" industry.
Inogen (NASDAQ:INGN) and Alpha Pro Tech (NYSE:APT) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends and media sentiment.
89.9% of Inogen shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.7% of Alpha Pro Tech shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Inogen shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.6% of Alpha Pro Tech shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Inogen has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alpha Pro Tech has a beta of -0.67, indicating that its stock price is 167% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Inogen currently has a consensus price target of $7.00, indicating a potential downside of 13.69%. Given Alpha Pro Tech's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Inogen is more favorable than Alpha Pro Tech.
Alpha Pro Tech has a net margin of 6.92% compared to Alpha Pro Tech's net margin of -30.07%. Inogen's return on equity of 6.86% beat Alpha Pro Tech's return on equity.
Inogen received 374 more outperform votes than Alpha Pro Tech when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Alpha Pro Tech an outperform vote while only 70.44% of users gave Inogen an outperform vote.
Alpha Pro Tech has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Inogen. Inogen is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alpha Pro Tech, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Inogen had 1 more articles in the media than Alpha Pro Tech. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Inogen and 2 mentions for Alpha Pro Tech. Alpha Pro Tech's average media sentiment score of 1.59 beat Inogen's score of 0.18 indicating that Inogen is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Alpha Pro Tech beats Inogen on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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