POLX vs. NCYT, IUG, BELL, IHC, AVO, RUA, SUN, MHC, DEMG, and SN
Should you be buying Polarean Imaging stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Polarean Imaging include Novacyt (NCYT), Intelligent Ultrasound Group (IUG), Belluscura (BELL), Inspiration Healthcare Group (IHC), Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO), RUA Life Sciences (RUA), Surgical Innovations Group (SUN), MyHealthChecked (MHC), Deltex Medical Group (DEMG), and Smith & Nephew (SN). These companies are all part of the "medical devices" industry.
Polarean Imaging (LON:POLX) and Novacyt (LON:NCYT) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, media sentiment and community ranking.
Polarean Imaging has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Novacyt. Novacyt is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Polarean Imaging, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Polarean Imaging has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Novacyt's net margin of -244.34%. Novacyt's return on equity of -27.46% beat Polarean Imaging's return on equity.
Polarean Imaging has a beta of 0.38, indicating that its stock price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Novacyt has a beta of -1.86, indicating that its stock price is 286% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Polarean Imaging had 1 more articles in the media than Novacyt. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Polarean Imaging and 1 mentions for Novacyt. Polarean Imaging's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Novacyt'saverage media sentiment score.
Novacyt received 13 more outperform votes than Polarean Imaging when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.65% of users gave Polarean Imaging an outperform vote while only 58.06% of users gave Novacyt an outperform vote.
12.1% of Polarean Imaging shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.1% of Novacyt shares are held by institutional investors. 39.3% of Polarean Imaging shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of Novacyt shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Polarean Imaging beats Novacyt on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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