PODD vs. ABMD, PEN, IRTC, EW, DXCM, IDXX, RMD, STE, HOLX, and BAX
Should you be buying Insulet stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Insulet include Abiomed (ABMD), Penumbra (PEN), iRhythm Technologies (IRTC), Edwards Lifesciences (EW), DexCom (DXCM), IDEXX Laboratories (IDXX), ResMed (RMD), STERIS (STE), Hologic (HOLX), and Baxter International (BAX). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Abiomed (NASDAQ:ABMD) and Insulet (NASDAQ:PODD) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
Insulet received 178 more outperform votes than Abiomed when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.08% of users gave Insulet an outperform vote while only 61.92% of users gave Abiomed an outperform vote.
Insulet has a consensus price target of $239.18, suggesting a potential upside of 24.95%. Given Abiomed's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Insulet is more favorable than Abiomed.
Abiomed has a net margin of 24.84% compared to Abiomed's net margin of 13.14%. Abiomed's return on equity of 34.06% beat Insulet's return on equity.
94.5% of Abiomed shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.5% of Abiomed shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Insulet shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Insulet has higher revenue and earnings than Abiomed. Insulet is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Abiomed, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Abiomed has a beta of 1.4, suggesting that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Insulet has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Insulet had 6 more articles in the media than Abiomed. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Insulet and 0 mentions for Abiomed. Abiomed's average media sentiment score of 1.48 beat Insulet's score of 0.44 indicating that Insulet is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Insulet beats Abiomed on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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