ARAY vs. UTMD, CTSO, SPNE, ANIK, SRDX, OFIX, ANGO, RMTI, RSLS, and ABT
Should you be buying Accuray stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Accuray include Utah Medical Products (UTMD), Cytosorbents (CTSO), SeaSpine (SPNE), Anika Therapeutics (ANIK), Surmodics (SRDX), Orthofix Medical (OFIX), AngioDynamics (ANGO), Rockwell Medical (RMTI), ReShape Lifesciences (RSLS), and Abbott Laboratories (ABT). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Utah Medical Products (NASDAQ:UTMD) and Accuray (NASDAQ:ARAY) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and earnings.
69.6% of Utah Medical Products shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.1% of Accuray shares are held by institutional investors. 6.6% of Utah Medical Products shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.8% of Accuray shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Accuray has a consensus target price of $8.25, suggesting a potential upside of 363.48%. Given Utah Medical Products' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Accuray is more favorable than Utah Medical Products.
Utah Medical Products has a beta of 0.14, meaning that its stock price is 86% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Accuray has a beta of 1.44, meaning that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Utah Medical Products has a net margin of 33.40% compared to Utah Medical Products' net margin of -4.99%. Accuray's return on equity of 13.06% beat Utah Medical Products' return on equity.
Accuray received 179 more outperform votes than Utah Medical Products when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.67% of users gave Accuray an outperform vote while only 61.29% of users gave Utah Medical Products an outperform vote.
Utah Medical Products has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Accuray. Accuray is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Utah Medical Products, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Accuray had 3 more articles in the media than Utah Medical Products. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Accuray and 0 mentions for Utah Medical Products. Utah Medical Products' average media sentiment score of 0.47 beat Accuray's score of 0.00 indicating that Accuray is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Utah Medical Products beats Accuray on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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