EW vs. ISRG, ZBH, ALGN, DXCM, COR, IQV, TAK, MRNA, CNC, and IDXX
Should you be buying Edwards Lifesciences stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Edwards Lifesciences include Intuitive Surgical (ISRG), Zimmer Biomet (ZBH), Align Technology (ALGN), DexCom (DXCM), Cencora (COR), IQVIA (IQV), Takeda Pharmaceutical (TAK), Moderna (MRNA), Centene (CNC), and IDEXX Laboratories (IDXX). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ:ISRG) and Edwards Lifesciences (NYSE:EW) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, earnings, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends and institutional ownership.
Intuitive Surgical has a net margin of 27.16% compared to Intuitive Surgical's net margin of 23.01%. Intuitive Surgical's return on equity of 23.34% beat Edwards Lifesciences' return on equity.
Edwards Lifesciences received 292 more outperform votes than Intuitive Surgical when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.77% of users gave Edwards Lifesciences an outperform vote while only 69.05% of users gave Intuitive Surgical an outperform vote.
83.6% of Intuitive Surgical shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.5% of Edwards Lifesciences shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Intuitive Surgical shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Edwards Lifesciences shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Intuitive Surgical has a beta of 1.36, meaning that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Edwards Lifesciences has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Intuitive Surgical presently has a consensus price target of $396.17, suggesting a potential upside of 5.55%. Edwards Lifesciences has a consensus price target of $92.71, suggesting a potential upside of 7.27%. Given Intuitive Surgical's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Edwards Lifesciences is more favorable than Intuitive Surgical.
Intuitive Surgical has higher revenue and earnings than Edwards Lifesciences. Edwards Lifesciences is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Intuitive Surgical, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Edwards Lifesciences had 15 more articles in the media than Intuitive Surgical. MarketBeat recorded 41 mentions for Edwards Lifesciences and 26 mentions for Intuitive Surgical. Edwards Lifesciences' average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Intuitive Surgical's score of 0.55 indicating that Intuitive Surgical is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Intuitive Surgical beats Edwards Lifesciences on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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