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RUA Life Sciences (RUA) Competitors

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GBX 11.25 +0.25 (+2.27%)
As of 09/12/2025 12:24 PM Eastern

RUA vs. IHC, AVO, POLX, SUN, MHC, BELL, MXCT, DEMG, SN, and NIOX

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

RUA Life Sciences vs. Its Competitors

RUA Life Sciences (LON:RUA) and Inspiration Healthcare Group (LON:IHC) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and media sentiment.

RUA Life Sciences has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Inspiration Healthcare Group has a beta of 0.09, suggesting that its stock price is 91% less volatile than the S&P 500.

1.0% of RUA Life Sciences shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.1% of Inspiration Healthcare Group shares are held by institutional investors. 7.3% of RUA Life Sciences shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.4% of Inspiration Healthcare Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

RUA Life Sciences has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Inspiration Healthcare Group.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
RUA Life Sciences£4.11M1.70-£2.66MN/AN/A
Inspiration Healthcare Group£38.25M0.48-£12.20M-£0.19-109.46

In the previous week, RUA Life Sciences' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Inspiration Healthcare Group'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
RUA Life Sciences Neutral
Inspiration Healthcare Group Neutral

Inspiration Healthcare Group has a net margin of -28.46% compared to RUA Life Sciences' net margin of -65.72%. RUA Life Sciences' return on equity of -26.38% beat Inspiration Healthcare Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
RUA Life Sciences-65.72% -26.38% -17.50%
Inspiration Healthcare Group -28.46%-34.30%-3.47%

Summary

RUA Life Sciences and Inspiration Healthcare Group tied by winning 5 of the 10 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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RUA vs. The Competition

MetricRUA Life SciencesMedical Devices IndustryMedical SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£6.98M£2.58B£5.87B£2.58B
Dividend Yield1.44%2.44%5.68%5.30%
P/E Ratio-2.61255.2074.525,410.94
Price / Sales1.70147.03516.4396,691.90
Price / Cash2.4015.9937.5627.93
Price / Book0.533.7212.167.77
Net Income-£2.66M£132.05M£3.28B£5.89B
7 Day Performance5.14%-1.25%0.78%6.51%
1 Month Performance-3.94%-3.01%4.87%55.94%
1 Year Performance1.36%13.05%60.72%147.85%

RUA Life Sciences Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
RUA
RUA Life Sciences
N/AGBX 11.25
+2.3%
N/A+5.2%£6.98M£4.11M-2.6148High Trading Volume
IHC
Inspiration Healthcare Group
N/AGBX 20.60
-4.2%
N/A-6.8%£18.47M£38.25M-109.46224Gap Down
AVO
Advanced Oncotherapy
N/AN/AN/AN/A£9.50MN/A-25.003,900Gap Down
POLX
Polarean Imaging
N/AGBX 0.66
-17.0%
N/A-58.5%£8.02M£3.09M-60.3628High Trading Volume
SUN
Surgical Innovations Group
N/AGBX 0.67
-4.7%
N/A+2.6%£6.22M£11.95M-317.6280Gap Up
MHC
MyHealthChecked
N/AGBX 10.25
-2.4%
N/A-6.4%£5.33M£3.61M-297.1016Gap Down
BELL
Belluscura
N/AGBX 0.75
flat
N/AN/A£3.01M£1.80M-5.7324
MXCT
MaxCyte
N/AGBX 1.42
+0.7%
N/A-99.5%£1.51M£35.75M-3.5580Gap Down
High Trading Volume
DEMG
Deltex Medical Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£187K£1.76M-0.1537Gap Up
High Trading Volume
SN
Smith & Nephew
2.946 of 5 stars
GBX 1,423.50
+0.7%
GBX 1,379.33
-3.1%
+18.4%£15.61B£7.08B51.2518,452High Trading Volume
NIOX
NIOX Group
1.7447 of 5 stars
GBX 71
+0.9%
GBX 90
+26.8%
+7.9%£296.66M£41.80M8,554.2292

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This page (LON:RUA) was last updated on 9/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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