CREO vs. EKF, IUG, NCYT, IHC, POLX, AVO, RUA, MHC, SUN, and BELL
Should you be buying Creo Medical Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Creo Medical Group include EKF Diagnostics (EKF), Intelligent Ultrasound Group (IUG), Novacyt (NCYT), Inspiration Healthcare Group (IHC), Polarean Imaging (POLX), Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO), RUA Life Sciences (RUA), MyHealthChecked (MHC), Surgical Innovations Group (SUN), and Belluscura (BELL). These companies are all part of the "medical devices" industry.
Creo Medical Group vs.
Creo Medical Group (LON:CREO) and EKF Diagnostics (LON:EKF) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.
56.1% of Creo Medical Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.3% of EKF Diagnostics shares are owned by institutional investors. 22.4% of Creo Medical Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.2% of EKF Diagnostics shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, EKF Diagnostics had 2 more articles in the media than Creo Medical Group. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for EKF Diagnostics and 3 mentions for Creo Medical Group. EKF Diagnostics' average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Creo Medical Group's score of 0.35 indicating that EKF Diagnostics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Creo Medical Group has a beta of 0.86, meaning that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, EKF Diagnostics has a beta of 0.57, meaning that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
EKF Diagnostics has higher revenue and earnings than Creo Medical Group. Creo Medical Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than EKF Diagnostics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
EKF Diagnostics received 221 more outperform votes than Creo Medical Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.76% of users gave EKF Diagnostics an outperform vote while only 67.52% of users gave Creo Medical Group an outperform vote.
EKF Diagnostics has a net margin of 9.37% compared to Creo Medical Group's net margin of -73.93%. EKF Diagnostics' return on equity of 7.03% beat Creo Medical Group's return on equity.
Summary
EKF Diagnostics beats Creo Medical Group on 13 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (LON:CREO) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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