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How major US stock indexes fared Friday, 4/19/2024
Stock market today: Tumbling tech stocks drag Wall Street to the finish line of another losing week
American Express profits jump 34%, helped by jump in new customers, higher spending
American Express, Fifth Third rise; Netflix, PPG Industries fall, Friday, 4/19/2024
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S&P 500   4,967.23
DOW   37,986.40
QQQ   414.65
How major US stock indexes fared Friday, 4/19/2024
Stock market today: Tumbling tech stocks drag Wall Street to the finish line of another losing week
American Express profits jump 34%, helped by jump in new customers, higher spending
American Express, Fifth Third rise; Netflix, PPG Industries fall, Friday, 4/19/2024
Intuitive Surgical Stock Can Trend Much Higher This Year 
3 Magnificent Seven Stocks Outperforming the Rest
Bargain Hunting: 3 Stocks With RSIs That Scream Oversold
S&P 500   4,967.23
DOW   37,986.40
QQQ   414.65
How major US stock indexes fared Friday, 4/19/2024
Stock market today: Tumbling tech stocks drag Wall Street to the finish line of another losing week
American Express profits jump 34%, helped by jump in new customers, higher spending
American Express, Fifth Third rise; Netflix, PPG Industries fall, Friday, 4/19/2024
Intuitive Surgical Stock Can Trend Much Higher This Year 
3 Magnificent Seven Stocks Outperforming the Rest
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Novacyt (NCYT) Competitors

GBX 70
+5.60 (+8.70%)
(As of 04/19/2024 ET)

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.

Novacyt vs.

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.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Intelligent Ultrasound Group
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
N/A
Novacyt
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
N/A

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Intelligent Ultrasound Group-31.08% -31.77% -17.61%
Novacyt N/A -21.08%-5.88%

Novacyt received 36 more outperform votes than Intelligent Ultrasound Group when rated by MarketBeat users.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Intelligent Ultrasound GroupN/AN/A
NovacytOutperform Votes
36
58.06%
Underperform Votes
26
41.94%

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Intelligent Ultrasound Group£10.26M2.71-£3.19M-£0.01-850.00
Novacyt£7.87M6.28-£25.30M-£0.36-194.44

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.

Company Overall Sentiment
Intelligent Ultrasound Group Neutral
Novacyt Neutral

Summary

Novacyt beats Intelligent Ultrasound Group on 7 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£49.44M£2.29B£4.79B£1.43B
Dividend YieldN/A2.50%2.93%12.21%
P/E Ratio-194.44209.84235.971,801.81
Price / Sales6.28222.382,475.50330,691.48
Price / Cash0.5816.6247.0734.02
Price / Book0.464.394.552.56
Net Income-£25.30M£65.40M£103.85M£182.99M
7 Day Performance39.25%-0.69%-4.50%-0.58%
1 Month Performance53.42%-3.60%-6.07%12.55%
1 Year Performance28.56%46.63%6.72%16.85%

Novacyt Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
IUG
Intelligent Ultrasound Group
0 of 5 stars
GBX 9.40
-1.1%
N/A-14.3%£30.73M£10.26M-940.0065
IHC
Inspiration Healthcare Group
0 of 5 stars
GBX 28.90
+0.3%
N/A-43.1%£19.72M£41.08M-2,890.00210
BELL
Belluscura
0 of 5 stars
GBX 8.90
-1.1%
N/A-82.0%£14.63M£1.20M-148.3324
EKF
EKF Diagnostics
0 of 5 stars
GBX 27.90
+0.4%
N/A-6.8%£126.59M£52.61M2,790.00356News Coverage
Positive News
CREO
Creo Medical Group
0 of 5 stars
GBX 37.82
-3.0%
N/A+29.6%£136.70M£29.27M-343.78279News Coverage
AGL
ANGLE
0.7065 of 5 stars
GBX 13.88
-11.9%
GBX 120
+764.6%
-30.9%£36.17M£1.82M-154.22173
RENX
Renalytix
0 of 5 stars
GBX 29.61
+2.1%
N/A-68.8%£35.51M£2.41M-82.25102
AREC
Arecor Therapeutics
0 of 5 stars
GBX 140
-1.8%
N/A-52.4%£42.88M£3.38M-451.6151News Coverage
TRX
Tissue Regenix Group
0 of 5 stars
GBX 61.50
flat
N/A+10,323.7%£43.40M£29.49M-3,075.0082Positive News
REDX
Redx Pharma
0 of 5 stars
GBX 6.70
+16.5%
N/A-61.4%£26.06M£4.20M-67.00101Insider Buying
High Trading Volume

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This page (LON:NCYT) was last updated on 4/19/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff

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