ISRG vs. EW, ELV, SYK, SNY, PFE, AMGN, VRTX, MDT, BSX, and REGN
Should you be buying Intuitive Surgical stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Intuitive Surgical include Edwards Lifesciences (EW), Elevance Health (ELV), Stryker (SYK), Sanofi (SNY), Pfizer (PFE), Amgen (AMGN), Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX), Medtronic (MDT), Boston Scientific (BSX), and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (REGN). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ:ISRG) and Edwards Lifesciences (NYSE:EW) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings, valuation and dividends.
Edwards Lifesciences received 296 more outperform votes than Intuitive Surgical when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.84% of users gave Edwards Lifesciences an outperform vote while only 69.05% of users gave Intuitive Surgical an outperform vote.
Intuitive Surgical has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Edwards Lifesciences has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Intuitive Surgical has higher revenue and earnings than Edwards Lifesciences. Edwards Lifesciences is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Intuitive Surgical, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Intuitive Surgical has a net margin of 27.16% compared to Edwards Lifesciences' net margin of 23.01%. Edwards Lifesciences' return on equity of 22.86% beat Intuitive Surgical's return on equity.
Intuitive Surgical currently has a consensus price target of $396.17, suggesting a potential downside of 0.94%. Edwards Lifesciences has a consensus price target of $94.31, suggesting a potential upside of 8.89%. Given Edwards Lifesciences' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Edwards Lifesciences is more favorable than Intuitive Surgical.
In the previous week, Edwards Lifesciences had 2 more articles in the media than Intuitive Surgical. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Edwards Lifesciences and 19 mentions for Intuitive Surgical. Intuitive Surgical's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Edwards Lifesciences' score of 0.93 indicating that Intuitive Surgical is being referred to more favorably in the media.
83.6% of Intuitive Surgical shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.5% of Edwards Lifesciences shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Intuitive Surgical shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Edwards Lifesciences shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Intuitive Surgical beats Edwards Lifesciences on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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