MXCT vs. NIOX, CREO, EKF, BMK, AMS, BVXP, TSTL, OXB, HVO, and APH
Should you be buying MaxCyte stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MaxCyte include NIOX Group (NIOX), Creo Medical Group (CREO), EKF Diagnostics (EKF), Benchmark (BMK), Advanced Medical Solutions Group (AMS), Bioventix (BVXP), Tristel (TSTL), Oxford Biomedica (OXB), hVIVO (HVO), and Alliance Pharma (APH). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
MaxCyte (LON:MXCT) and NIOX Group (LON:NIOX) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and dividends.
MaxCyte has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NIOX Group has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
76.7% of MaxCyte shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.9% of NIOX Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of MaxCyte shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 54.2% of NIOX Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
MaxCyte received 152 more outperform votes than NIOX Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave NIOX Group an outperform vote while only 68.92% of users gave MaxCyte an outperform vote.
NIOX Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than MaxCyte. MaxCyte is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NIOX Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NIOX Group has a consensus price target of GBX 77, suggesting a potential upside of 14.58%. Given NIOX Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe NIOX Group is more favorable than MaxCyte.
NIOX Group has a net margin of 29.08% compared to MaxCyte's net margin of -91.85%. NIOX Group's return on equity of 11.47% beat MaxCyte's return on equity.
In the previous week, MaxCyte had 1 more articles in the media than NIOX Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for MaxCyte and 0 mentions for NIOX Group. MaxCyte's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled NIOX Group'saverage media sentiment score.
Summary
NIOX Group beats MaxCyte on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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