NCYT vs. IUG, IHC, BELL, EKF, CREO, AGL, RENX, AREC, TRX, and REDX
Should you be buying Novacyt stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Novacyt include Intelligent Ultrasound Group (IUG), Inspiration Healthcare Group (IHC), Belluscura (BELL), EKF Diagnostics (EKF), Creo Medical Group (CREO), ANGLE (AGL), Renalytix (RENX), Arecor Therapeutics (AREC), Tissue Regenix Group (TRX), and Redx Pharma (REDX). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Intelligent Ultrasound Group (LON:IUG) and Novacyt (LON:NCYT) 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, community ranking, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends and media sentiment.
Intelligent Ultrasound Group has a beta of 0.08, meaning that its stock price is 92% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Novacyt has a beta of -1.73, meaning that its stock price is 273% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Novacyt has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Novacyt's net margin of -31.08%. Intelligent Ultrasound Group's return on equity of -21.08% beat Novacyt's return on equity.
Novacyt received 36 more outperform votes than Intelligent Ultrasound Group when rated by MarketBeat users.
Intelligent Ultrasound Group has higher revenue and earnings than Novacyt. Intelligent Ultrasound Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Novacyt, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
79.7% of Intelligent Ultrasound Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.1% of Novacyt shares are held by institutional investors. 11.9% of Intelligent Ultrasound Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of Novacyt shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Novacyt had 2 more articles in the media than Intelligent Ultrasound Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Novacyt and 0 mentions for Intelligent Ultrasound Group. Novacyt's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Intelligent Ultrasound Group'saverage media sentiment score.
Summary
Novacyt beats Intelligent Ultrasound Group on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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