CTSO vs. SEPA, ICCM, LUCD, DRIO, APYX, XAIR, CTCX, DXR, LNSR, and HSAQ
Should you be buying Cytosorbents stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cytosorbents include SEP Acquisition (SEPA), IceCure Medical (ICCM), Lucid Diagnostics (LUCD), DarioHealth (DRIO), Apyx Medical (APYX), Beyond Air (XAIR), Carmell (CTCX), Daxor (DXR), LENSAR (LNSR), and Health Sciences Acquisitions Co. 2 (HSAQ). These companies are all part of the "surgical & medical instruments" industry.
SEP Acquisition (NASDAQ:SEPA) and Cytosorbents (NASDAQ:CTSO) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
SEP Acquisition has a net margin of 0.00% compared to SEP Acquisition's net margin of -75.07%. Cytosorbents' return on equity of 0.00% beat SEP Acquisition's return on equity.
SEP Acquisition has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Cytosorbents.
3.7% of SEP Acquisition shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.9% of Cytosorbents shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.0% of SEP Acquisition shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.6% of Cytosorbents shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Cytosorbents received 436 more outperform votes than SEP Acquisition when rated by MarketBeat users.
SEP Acquisition has a beta of 0.16, meaning that its share price is 84% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cytosorbents has a beta of 0.62, meaning that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Cytosorbents has a consensus target price of $2.00, suggesting a potential upside of 132.02%. Given SEP Acquisition's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Cytosorbents is more favorable than SEP Acquisition.
In the previous week, Cytosorbents had 2 more articles in the media than SEP Acquisition. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Cytosorbents and 3 mentions for SEP Acquisition. Cytosorbents' average media sentiment score of 1.88 beat SEP Acquisition's score of 0.46 indicating that SEP Acquisition is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Cytosorbents beats SEP Acquisition on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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