AVGR vs. RMED, IGAP, PYPD, BJDX, SINT, AEMD, INVO, INBS, RSLS, and NURO
Should you be buying Avinger stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Avinger include Ra Medical Systems (RMED), Integrity Applications (IGAP), PolyPid (PYPD), Bluejay Diagnostics (BJDX), Sintx Technologies (SINT), Aethlon Medical (AEMD), INVO Bioscience (INVO), Intelligent Bio Solutions (INBS), ReShape Lifesciences (RSLS), and NeuroMetrix (NURO). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Avinger vs.
Avinger (NASDAQ:AVGR) and Ra Medical Systems (NYSE:RMED) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Avinger received 302 more outperform votes than Ra Medical Systems when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.80% of users gave Avinger an outperform vote while only 57.89% of users gave Ra Medical Systems an outperform vote.
Avinger has higher revenue and earnings than Ra Medical Systems. Avinger is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ra Medical Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ra Medical Systems has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Avinger's net margin of -207.02%. Ra Medical Systems' return on equity of -183.58% beat Avinger's return on equity.
14.1% of Avinger shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Avinger shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 18.6% of Ra Medical Systems shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Ra Medical Systems had 4 more articles in the media than Avinger. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Ra Medical Systems and 0 mentions for Avinger. Avinger's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Ra Medical Systems' average media sentiment score.
Summary
Avinger beats Ra Medical Systems on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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