LUCD vs. CTSO, AMIX, NSPR, APYX, DRIO, ICCM, XAIR, DXR, HSAQ, and GBS
Should you be buying Lucid Diagnostics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lucid Diagnostics include Cytosorbents (CTSO), Autonomix Medical (AMIX), InspireMD (NSPR), Apyx Medical (APYX), DarioHealth (DRIO), IceCure Medical (ICCM), Beyond Air (XAIR), Daxor (DXR), Health Sciences Acquisitions Co. 2 (HSAQ), and GBS (GBS). These companies are all part of the "surgical & medical instruments" industry.
Cytosorbents (NASDAQ:CTSO) and Lucid Diagnostics (NASDAQ:LUCD) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, risk, media sentiment, earnings and valuation.
Cytosorbents received 410 more outperform votes than Lucid Diagnostics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 79.52% of users gave Cytosorbents an outperform vote while only 59.52% of users gave Lucid Diagnostics an outperform vote.
Cytosorbents presently has a consensus price target of $2.50, indicating a potential upside of 186.73%. Lucid Diagnostics has a consensus price target of $2.75, indicating a potential upside of 189.47%. Given Cytosorbents' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Lucid Diagnostics is more favorable than Cytosorbents.
In the previous week, Cytosorbents had 3 more articles in the media than Lucid Diagnostics. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Cytosorbents and 3 mentions for Lucid Diagnostics. Lucid Diagnostics' average media sentiment score of 0.03 beat Cytosorbents' score of 0.00 indicating that Cytosorbents is being referred to more favorably in the media.
32.9% of Cytosorbents shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.0% of Lucid Diagnostics shares are held by institutional investors. 6.6% of Cytosorbents shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.8% of Lucid Diagnostics shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Cytosorbents has a beta of 0.62, meaning that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lucid Diagnostics has a beta of 1.48, meaning that its stock price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Cytosorbents has higher revenue and earnings than Lucid Diagnostics. Cytosorbents is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lucid Diagnostics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cytosorbents has a net margin of -78.43% compared to Cytosorbents' net margin of -2,169.07%. Lucid Diagnostics' return on equity of -120.24% beat Cytosorbents' return on equity.
Summary
Cytosorbents beats Lucid Diagnostics on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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