SENS vs. MLAB, QURE, CHRS, ELYM, AGEN, PBYI, TSVT, FHTX, GTHX, and CDT
Should you be buying Senseonics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Senseonics include Mesa Laboratories (MLAB), uniQure (QURE), Coherus BioSciences (CHRS), Eliem Therapeutics (ELYM), Agenus (AGEN), Puma Biotechnology (PBYI), 2seventy bio (TSVT), Foghorn Therapeutics (FHTX), G1 Therapeutics (GTHX), and Conduit Pharmaceuticals (CDT). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Senseonics (NYSE:SENS) and Mesa Laboratories (NASDAQ:MLAB) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, dividends, profitability, valuation, risk, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Senseonics currently has a consensus target price of $1.25, indicating a potential upside of 157.68%. Mesa Laboratories has a consensus target price of $130.00, indicating a potential upside of 6.37%. Given Senseonics' higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Senseonics is more favorable than Mesa Laboratories.
In the previous week, Senseonics had 11 more articles in the media than Mesa Laboratories. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Senseonics and 1 mentions for Mesa Laboratories. Senseonics' average media sentiment score of 0.40 beat Mesa Laboratories' score of 0.00 indicating that Senseonics is being referred to more favorably in the media.
12.4% of Senseonics shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.6% of Mesa Laboratories shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.9% of Senseonics shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.2% of Mesa Laboratories shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Mesa Laboratories received 216 more outperform votes than Senseonics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.82% of users gave Mesa Laboratories an outperform vote while only 16.67% of users gave Senseonics an outperform vote.
Mesa Laboratories has higher revenue and earnings than Senseonics. Senseonics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mesa Laboratories, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Senseonics has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mesa Laboratories has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Mesa Laboratories has a net margin of 0.45% compared to Senseonics' net margin of -346.38%. Mesa Laboratories' return on equity of 7.41% beat Senseonics' return on equity.
Summary
Mesa Laboratories beats Senseonics on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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