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Novacyt (NCYT) Competitors

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GBX 38.53 -0.17 (-0.44%)
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NCYT vs. CREO, IUG, IHC, POLX, AVO, RUA, SUN, MHC, BELL, and MXCT

Should you be buying Novacyt stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Novacyt include Creo Medical Group (CREO), Intelligent Ultrasound Group (IUG), Inspiration Healthcare Group (IHC), Polarean Imaging (POLX), Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO), RUA Life Sciences (RUA), Surgical Innovations Group (SUN), MyHealthChecked (MHC), Belluscura (BELL), and MaxCyte (MXCT). These companies are all part of the "medical devices" industry.

Novacyt vs. Its Competitors

Novacyt (LON:NCYT) and Creo Medical Group (LON:CREO) 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, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.

Novacyt has a beta of -1.86, indicating that its share price is 286% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Creo Medical Group has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Creo Medical Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Novacyt. Creo Medical Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Novacyt, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Novacyt£19.63M1.39-£36.80M-£0.59-65.30
Creo Medical Group£4M13.30-£25.04M-£0.08-161.25

Creo Medical Group has a net margin of -73.93% compared to Novacyt's net margin of -203.06%. Creo Medical Group's return on equity of -41.79% beat Novacyt's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Novacyt-203.06% -47.73% -27.98%
Creo Medical Group -73.93%-41.79%-20.09%

In the previous week, Creo Medical Group had 1 more articles in the media than Novacyt. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Creo Medical Group and 0 mentions for Novacyt. Novacyt's average media sentiment score of 1.75 beat Creo Medical Group's score of 0.75 indicating that Novacyt is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Novacyt Very Positive
Creo Medical Group Positive

10.7% of Novacyt shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.1% of Creo Medical Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Novacyt shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.1% of Creo Medical Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Creo Medical Group beats Novacyt on 10 of the 13 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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NCYT vs. The Competition

MetricNovacytMedical Devices IndustryMedical SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£27.21M£2.57B£5.78B£2.57B
Dividend YieldN/A2.44%6.70%5.30%
P/E Ratio-65.30265.0175.845,395.93
Price / Sales1.39153.97538.9997,029.82
Price / Cash0.5815.9925.7027.93
Price / Book0.393.7511.917.98
Net Income-£36.80M£132.05M£3.28B£5.89B
7 Day Performance-5.33%-2.93%1.11%0.63%
1 Month Performance1.39%-4.81%8.17%55.78%
1 Year Performance-53.64%12.84%67.79%197.77%

Novacyt Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
NCYT
Novacyt
N/AGBX 38.53
-0.4%
N/A-53.4%£27.21M£19.63M-65.30120
CREO
Creo Medical Group
N/AGBX 13.13
flat
N/A-55.3%£53.06M£33.87M-2.08279News Coverage
IUG
Intelligent Ultrasound Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£42.76M£6.57M-18.9165
IHC
Inspiration Healthcare Group
N/AGBX 22.70
-0.4%
N/A-0.5%£19.66M£42.87M-1.56224High Trading Volume
POLX
Polarean Imaging
N/AGBX 0.95
flat
N/A-43.1%£13.94M£5.21M-0.2428Gap Down
AVO
Advanced Oncotherapy
N/AN/AN/AN/A£9.50MN/A-25.003,900Gap Down
RUA
RUA Life Sciences
N/AGBX 11.20
-7.6%
N/A+0.5%£6.95M£4.05M-2.6148High Trading Volume
SUN
Surgical Innovations Group
N/AGBX 0.67
-4.9%
N/A+2.6%£6.21M£12.54M-21.1180Gap Up
MHC
MyHealthChecked
N/AGBX 10.15
-3.3%
N/A-8.5%£5.28M£9.43M-5.0616
BELL
Belluscura
N/AGBX 0.75
flat
N/AN/A£1.89M£2.87M-0.0824
MXCT
MaxCyte
N/AGBX 1.40
+0.7%
N/A-99.5%£1.85M£57.52M-0.0580High Trading Volume

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This page (LON:NCYT) was last updated on 9/8/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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