VMD vs. CO, SENS, AKBA, IMMP, CDXS, SMTI, STRO, EDAP, JYNT, and EPIX
Should you be buying Viemed Healthcare stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Viemed Healthcare include Global Cord Blood (CO), Senseonics (SENS), Akebia Therapeutics (AKBA), Immutep (IMMP), Codexis (CDXS), Sanara MedTech (SMTI), Sutro Biopharma (STRO), Edap Tms (EDAP), Joint (JYNT), and ESSA Pharma (EPIX). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Global Cord Blood (NYSE:CO) and Viemed Healthcare (NASDAQ:VMD) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk and community ranking.
Global Cord Blood has a beta of 0.16, meaning that its share price is 84% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Viemed Healthcare has a beta of 1.53, meaning that its share price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Global Cord Blood received 338 more outperform votes than Viemed Healthcare when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.45% of users gave Global Cord Blood an outperform vote while only 42.86% of users gave Viemed Healthcare an outperform vote.
Global Cord Blood has higher revenue and earnings than Viemed Healthcare. Global Cord Blood is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Viemed Healthcare, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Global Cord Blood and Global Cord Blood both had 4 articles in the media. Global Cord Blood's average media sentiment score of 1.68 beat Viemed Healthcare's score of 0.14 indicating that Viemed Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Viemed Healthcare has a net margin of 5.32% compared to Viemed Healthcare's net margin of 0.00%. Global Cord Blood's return on equity of 9.32% beat Viemed Healthcare's return on equity.
74.2% of Viemed Healthcare shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Global Cord Blood shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.2% of Viemed Healthcare shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Viemed Healthcare beats Global Cord Blood on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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