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Creo Medical Group (CREO) Competitors

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CREO vs. EKF, IUG, NCYT, POLX, IHC, 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), Polarean Imaging (POLX), Inspiration Healthcare Group (IHC), 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 business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation and risk.

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Creo Medical Group-73.93% -41.79% -20.09%
EKF Diagnostics 9.37%7.03%5.27%

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.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Creo Medical GroupOutperform Votes
106
67.52%
Underperform Votes
51
32.48%
EKF DiagnosticsOutperform Votes
327
76.76%
Underperform Votes
99
23.24%

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, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Creo Medical Group has a beta of 0.86, meaning that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, EKF Diagnostics has a beta of 0.57, meaning that its share 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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Creo Medical Group£33.87M1.26-£25.04M-£6.32-1.67
EKF Diagnostics£49.91M1.87£4.68M£1.0719.54

In the previous week, EKF Diagnostics had 1 more articles in the media than Creo Medical Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for EKF Diagnostics and 0 mentions for Creo Medical Group. Creo Medical Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat EKF Diagnostics' score of -0.64 indicating that Creo Medical Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Creo Medical Group Neutral
EKF Diagnostics Negative

Summary

EKF Diagnostics beats Creo Medical Group on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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CREO vs. The Competition

MetricCreo Medical GroupMedical Devices IndustryMedical SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£42.77M£3.28B£5.55B£2.59B
Dividend YieldN/A2.44%5.09%4.97%
P/E Ratio-1.6770.6422.68133.69
Price / Sales1.26119.25404.28239,757.82
Price / Cash2.4315.9938.1828.12
Price / Book0.813.646.794.55
Net Income-£25.04M£126.02M£3.22B£5.84B
7 Day Performance10.21%1.16%2.44%3.43%
1 Month Performance-17.34%-2.47%3.79%10.59%
1 Year Performance-69.99%-11.15%17.06%117.06%

Creo Medical Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CREO
Creo Medical Group
N/AGBX 10.58
-0.4%
N/A-70.0%£42.77M£33.87M-1.67279
EKF
EKF Diagnostics
N/AGBX 21.24
-0.3%
N/A-29.5%£94.38M£49.91M19.76356
IUG
Intelligent Ultrasound Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£42.76M£6.57M-18.9165
NCYT
Novacyt
N/AGBX 41.03
-0.1%
N/A-46.0%£28.35M£18.12M-0.75120Earnings Report
News Coverage
POLX
Polarean Imaging
N/AGBX 1.03
flat
N/A-71.2%£15.04M£5.21M-0.2628
IHC
Inspiration Healthcare Group
N/AGBX 16.50
-1.5%
N/A+3.9%£14.29M£42.87M-1.13224Positive News
AVO
Advanced Oncotherapy
N/AN/AN/AN/A£9.50MN/A-25.003,900Gap Down
RUA
RUA Life Sciences
N/AGBX 11.98
+4.2%
N/A+5.7%£7.44M£4.05M-2.7948Gap Down
MHC
MyHealthChecked
N/AGBX 13
-7.1%
N/A+33.0%£6.77M£9.43M-6.4816Gap Down
SUN
Surgical Innovations Group
N/AGBX 0.47
-6.0%
N/A+26.6%£4.38M£12.54M-21.1180Gap Up
BELL
Belluscura
N/AGBX 0.61
-6.0%
N/A-90.8%£1.54M£2.87M-0.0724

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This page (LON:CREO) was last updated on 5/3/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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