AMS vs. TSTL, BVC, AVCT, AMYT, HZD, SLN, NIOX, BMK, CSRT, and MXCT
Should you be buying Advanced Medical Solutions Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Advanced Medical Solutions Group include Tristel (TSTL), BATM Advanced Communications (BVC), Avacta Group (AVCT), Amryt Pharma (AMYT), Horizon Discovery Group plc (HZD.L) (HZD), Silence Therapeutics (SLN), NIOX Group (NIOX), Benchmark (BMK), Consort Medical plc (CSRT.L) (CSRT), and MaxCyte (MXCT). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Advanced Medical Solutions Group (LON:AMS) and Tristel (LON:TSTL) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, earnings and profitability.
Advanced Medical Solutions Group has a beta of 0.61, meaning that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tristel has a beta of 0.44, meaning that its share price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Advanced Medical Solutions Group has a net margin of 15.23% compared to Tristel's net margin of 10.21%. Tristel's return on equity of 12.21% beat Advanced Medical Solutions Group's return on equity.
Advanced Medical Solutions Group currently has a consensus target price of GBX 293, indicating a potential upside of 47.38%. Tristel has a consensus target price of GBX 390, indicating a potential downside of 8.77%. Given Advanced Medical Solutions Group's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Advanced Medical Solutions Group is more favorable than Tristel.
Advanced Medical Solutions Group has higher revenue and earnings than Tristel. Advanced Medical Solutions Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tristel, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
66.6% of Advanced Medical Solutions Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.4% of Tristel shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of Advanced Medical Solutions Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.0% of Tristel shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Advanced Medical Solutions Group had 5 more articles in the media than Tristel. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Advanced Medical Solutions Group and 0 mentions for Tristel. Advanced Medical Solutions Group's average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat Tristel's score of 0.00 indicating that Advanced Medical Solutions Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Advanced Medical Solutions Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Tristel pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Advanced Medical Solutions Group pays out 2,222.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Tristel pays out 10,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Advanced Medical Solutions Group received 15 more outperform votes than Tristel when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.36% of users gave Tristel an outperform vote while only 49.54% of users gave Advanced Medical Solutions Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Advanced Medical Solutions Group beats Tristel on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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