ARAY vs. ANGO, SRDX, CTSO, OFIX, RCEL, UTMD, PROF, DRTS, TLSI, and OBIO
Should you be buying Accuray stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Accuray include AngioDynamics (ANGO), Surmodics (SRDX), Cytosorbents (CTSO), Orthofix Medical (OFIX), AVITA Medical (RCEL), Utah Medical Products (UTMD), Profound Medical (PROF), Alpha Tau Medical (DRTS), TriSalus Life Sciences (TLSI), and Orchestra BioMed (OBIO). These companies are all part of the "surgical & medical instruments" industry.
AngioDynamics (NASDAQ:ANGO) and Accuray (NASDAQ:ARAY) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Accuray had 17 more articles in the media than AngioDynamics. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Accuray and 3 mentions for AngioDynamics. Accuray's average media sentiment score of 0.47 beat AngioDynamics' score of -0.22 indicating that AngioDynamics is being referred to more favorably in the media.
AngioDynamics currently has a consensus price target of $14.25, suggesting a potential upside of 127.27%. Accuray has a consensus price target of $8.25, suggesting a potential upside of 409.26%. Given AngioDynamics' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Accuray is more favorable than AngioDynamics.
Accuray has a net margin of -4.99% compared to Accuray's net margin of -60.21%. Accuray's return on equity of -3.48% beat AngioDynamics' return on equity.
AngioDynamics received 30 more outperform votes than Accuray when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.67% of users gave Accuray an outperform vote while only 60.67% of users gave AngioDynamics an outperform vote.
AngioDynamics has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Accuray has a beta of 1.48, indicating that its stock price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Accuray has higher revenue and earnings than AngioDynamics. Accuray is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AngioDynamics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
89.4% of AngioDynamics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.1% of Accuray shares are held by institutional investors. 5.1% of AngioDynamics shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.8% of Accuray shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
AngioDynamics beats Accuray on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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