ATRI vs. OSUR, ANIK, CERS, UTMD, ICUI, KIDS, TMCI, SILK, FNA, and SIBN
Should you be buying Atrion stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Atrion include OraSure Technologies (OSUR), Anika Therapeutics (ANIK), Cerus (CERS), Utah Medical Products (UTMD), ICU Medical (ICUI), OrthoPediatrics (KIDS), Treace Medical Concepts (TMCI), Silk Road Medical (SILK), Paragon 28 (FNA), and SI-BONE (SIBN). These companies are all part of the "surgical & medical instruments" industry.
OraSure Technologies (NASDAQ:OSUR) and Atrion (NASDAQ:ATRI) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, valuation, dividends and community ranking.
OraSure Technologies has a beta of 0.15, meaning that its stock price is 85% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Atrion has a beta of 0.6, meaning that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
OraSure Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Atrion. OraSure Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Atrion, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
OraSure Technologies has a net margin of 13.23% compared to OraSure Technologies' net margin of 11.46%. Atrion's return on equity of 14.50% beat OraSure Technologies' return on equity.
93.5% of OraSure Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.2% of Atrion shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.4% of OraSure Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 22.7% of Atrion shares are owned by 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.
OraSure Technologies received 418 more outperform votes than Atrion when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.95% of users gave OraSure Technologies an outperform vote while only 56.09% of users gave Atrion an outperform vote.
OraSure Technologies currently has a consensus target price of $6.38, indicating a potential upside of 21.43%. Given Atrion's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe OraSure Technologies is more favorable than Atrion.
In the previous week, OraSure Technologies had 3 more articles in the media than Atrion. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for OraSure Technologies and 2 mentions for Atrion. Atrion's average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat OraSure Technologies' score of 0.26 indicating that OraSure Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
OraSure Technologies beats Atrion on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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