SPI vs. ONT, GNS, CRW, UPR, PRTC, AMS, BMK, MXCT, NIOX, and INDV
Should you be buying Spire Healthcare Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Spire Healthcare Group include Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT), Genus (GNS), Craneware (CRW), Uniphar (UPR), PureTech Health (PRTC), Advanced Medical Solutions Group (AMS), Benchmark (BMK), MaxCyte (MXCT), NIOX Group (NIOX), and Indivior (INDV). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Oxford Nanopore Technologies (LON:ONT) and Spire Healthcare Group (LON:SPI) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, profitability and dividends.
Spire Healthcare Group received 327 more outperform votes than Oxford Nanopore Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Oxford Nanopore Technologies an outperform vote while only 60.82% of users gave Spire Healthcare Group an outperform vote.
Spire Healthcare Group has higher revenue and earnings than Oxford Nanopore Technologies. Oxford Nanopore Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Spire Healthcare Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Oxford Nanopore Technologies has a beta of 0.59, indicating that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Spire Healthcare Group has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Oxford Nanopore Technologies presently has a consensus price target of GBX 303.75, indicating a potential upside of 226.26%. Spire Healthcare Group has a consensus price target of GBX 302.25, indicating a potential upside of 22.37%. Given Spire Healthcare Group's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Oxford Nanopore Technologies is more favorable than Spire Healthcare Group.
38.4% of Oxford Nanopore Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.8% of Spire Healthcare Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 30.1% of Oxford Nanopore Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 34.5% of Spire Healthcare Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Spire Healthcare Group has a net margin of 2.01% compared to Spire Healthcare Group's net margin of -91.06%. Oxford Nanopore Technologies' return on equity of 3.81% beat Spire Healthcare Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Spire Healthcare Group had 3 more articles in the media than Oxford Nanopore Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Spire Healthcare Group and 1 mentions for Oxford Nanopore Technologies. Oxford Nanopore Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.04 beat Spire Healthcare Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Spire Healthcare Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Spire Healthcare Group beats Oxford Nanopore Technologies on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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