LUNG vs. SKIN, NVRO, TCMD, GUTS, CERS, ANIK, TMCI, OSUR, TLSI, and SGHT
Should you be buying Pulmonx stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pulmonx include Beauty Health (SKIN), Nevro (NVRO), Tactile Systems Technology (TCMD), Fractyl Health (GUTS), Cerus (CERS), Anika Therapeutics (ANIK), Treace Medical Concepts (TMCI), OraSure Technologies (OSUR), TriSalus Life Sciences (TLSI), and Sight Sciences (SGHT). These companies are all part of the "surgical & medical instruments" industry.
Beauty Health (NASDAQ:SKIN) and Pulmonx (NASDAQ:LUNG) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, community ranking and earnings.
Pulmonx has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Beauty Health. Pulmonx is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Beauty Health, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Beauty Health has a beta of 1.13, indicating that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pulmonx has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
93.3% of Beauty Health shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.0% of Pulmonx shares are held by institutional investors. 41.0% of Beauty Health shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.7% of Pulmonx 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.
Beauty Health presently has a consensus target price of $6.29, indicating a potential upside of 142.69%. Pulmonx has a consensus target price of $16.33, indicating a potential upside of 84.35%. Given Pulmonx's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Beauty Health is more favorable than Pulmonx.
In the previous week, Beauty Health had 23 more articles in the media than Pulmonx. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Beauty Health and 0 mentions for Pulmonx. Beauty Health's average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat Pulmonx's score of 0.84 indicating that Pulmonx is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Beauty Health has a net margin of -20.48% compared to Beauty Health's net margin of -80.46%. Pulmonx's return on equity of -0.02% beat Beauty Health's return on equity.
Beauty Health received 10 more outperform votes than Pulmonx when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 48.78% of users gave Beauty Health an outperform vote while only 43.48% of users gave Pulmonx an outperform vote.
Summary
Beauty Health beats Pulmonx on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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