SGHT vs. INO, TLSI, GUTS, UTMD, ANGO, RCEL, CERS, TCMD, LUNG, and PROF
Should you be buying Sight Sciences stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sight Sciences include Inovio Pharmaceuticals (INO), TriSalus Life Sciences (TLSI), Fractyl Health (GUTS), Utah Medical Products (UTMD), AngioDynamics (ANGO), AVITA Medical (RCEL), Cerus (CERS), Tactile Systems Technology (TCMD), Pulmonx (LUNG), and Profound Medical (PROF). These companies are all part of the "surgical & medical instruments" industry.
Sight Sciences (NASDAQ:SGHT) and Inovio Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:INO) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, dividends, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability and earnings.
55.5% of Sight Sciences shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.8% of Inovio Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. 27.1% of Sight Sciences shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of Inovio Pharmaceuticals shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Inovio Pharmaceuticals had 23 more articles in the media than Sight Sciences. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Inovio Pharmaceuticals and 1 mentions for Sight Sciences. Sight Sciences' average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Inovio Pharmaceuticals' score of 0.39 indicating that Sight Sciences is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sight Sciences has higher revenue and earnings than Inovio Pharmaceuticals.
Sight Sciences has a beta of 2.73, meaning that its stock price is 173% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Inovio Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sight Sciences presently has a consensus price target of $4.70, indicating a potential downside of 15.16%. Inovio Pharmaceuticals has a consensus price target of $70.67, indicating a potential upside of 440.68%. Given Inovio Pharmaceuticals' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Inovio Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than Sight Sciences.
Sight Sciences has a net margin of -67.18% compared to Inovio Pharmaceuticals' net margin of -16,238.91%. Sight Sciences' return on equity of -44.45% beat Inovio Pharmaceuticals' return on equity.
Inovio Pharmaceuticals received 702 more outperform votes than Sight Sciences when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.49% of users gave Inovio Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 31.91% of users gave Sight Sciences an outperform vote.
Summary
Sight Sciences beats Inovio Pharmaceuticals on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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