SENS vs. MLAB, HURC, CLIR, SYPR, SMIT, DHR, ROP, AME, FTV, and KEYS
Should you be buying Senseonics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Senseonics include Mesa Laboratories (MLAB), Hurco Companies (HURC), ClearSign Technologies (CLIR), Sypris Solutions (SYPR), Schmitt Industries (SMIT), Danaher (DHR), Roper Technologies (ROP), AMETEK (AME), Fortive (FTV), and Keysight Technologies (KEYS). These companies are all part of the "process control instruments" industry.
Senseonics (NYSE:SENS) and Mesa Laboratories (NASDAQ:MLAB) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, dividends, profitability and media sentiment.
Senseonics has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mesa Laboratories has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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 14.29% of users gave Senseonics an outperform vote.
Senseonics presently has a consensus target price of $1.25, suggesting a potential upside of 187.36%. Mesa Laboratories has a consensus target price of $130.00, suggesting a potential upside of 13.79%. Given Senseonics' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Senseonics is more favorable than Mesa Laboratories.
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.
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.
12.4% of Senseonics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.6% of Mesa Laboratories shares are held by institutional investors. 3.9% of Senseonics shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.2% of Mesa Laboratories shares are held by 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.
In the previous week, Mesa Laboratories had 5 more articles in the media than Senseonics. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Mesa Laboratories and 2 mentions for Senseonics. Mesa Laboratories' average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Senseonics' score of -0.22 indicating that Mesa Laboratories is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Mesa Laboratories beats Senseonics on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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