CTEC vs. AMS, TSTL, BVC, SPEC, AKR, CNSL, ODX, SN, DPH, and HIK
Should you be buying ConvaTec Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ConvaTec Group include Advanced Medical Solutions Group (AMS), Tristel (TSTL), BATM Advanced Communications (BVC), INSPECS Group (SPEC), Akers Biosciences (AKR), Cambridge Nutritional Sciences (CNSL), Omega Diagnostics Group (ODX), Smith & Nephew (SN), Dechra Pharmaceuticals (DPH), and Hikma Pharmaceuticals (HIK). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Advanced Medical Solutions Group (LON:AMS) and ConvaTec Group (LON:CTEC) are both medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, profitability, valuation, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
ConvaTec Group has higher revenue and earnings than Advanced Medical Solutions Group. Advanced Medical Solutions Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ConvaTec Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Advanced Medical Solutions Group has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ConvaTec Group has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Advanced Medical Solutions Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. ConvaTec Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Advanced Medical Solutions Group pays out 2,857.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. ConvaTec Group pays out 10,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, ConvaTec Group had 1 more articles in the media than Advanced Medical Solutions Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for ConvaTec Group and 0 mentions for Advanced Medical Solutions Group. ConvaTec Group's average media sentiment score of 1.36 beat Advanced Medical Solutions Group's score of 1.05 indicating that Advanced Medical Solutions Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
65.7% of Advanced Medical Solutions Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.2% of ConvaTec Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of Advanced Medical Solutions Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.0% of ConvaTec Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Advanced Medical Solutions Group presently has a consensus target price of GBX 300, indicating a potential upside of 40.19%. ConvaTec Group has a consensus target price of GBX 307.17, indicating a potential upside of 21.99%. Given ConvaTec Group's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Advanced Medical Solutions Group is more favorable than ConvaTec Group.
Advanced Medical Solutions Group has a net margin of 12.59% compared to Advanced Medical Solutions Group's net margin of 6.08%. Advanced Medical Solutions Group's return on equity of 7.89% beat ConvaTec Group's return on equity.
ConvaTec Group received 188 more outperform votes than Advanced Medical Solutions Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.54% of users gave ConvaTec Group an outperform vote while only 49.70% of users gave Advanced Medical Solutions Group an outperform vote.
Summary
ConvaTec Group beats Advanced Medical Solutions Group on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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