ECOR vs. POCI, MOVE, RMTI, QTI, NRXS, BSGM, IRIX, HYPR, VANI, and FONR
Should you be buying electroCore stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of electroCore include Precision Optics (POCI), Movano (MOVE), Rockwell Medical (RMTI), QT Imaging (QTI), NeurAxis (NRXS), BioSig Technologies (BSGM), IRIDEX (IRIX), Hyperfine (HYPR), Vivani Medical (VANI), and FONAR (FONR). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Precision Optics (NASDAQ:POCI) and electroCore (NASDAQ:ECOR) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, dividends, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations and profitability.
electroCore has a consensus target price of $10.00, indicating a potential upside of 77.94%. Given Precision Optics' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe electroCore is more favorable than Precision Optics.
In the previous week, Precision Optics had 3 more articles in the media than electroCore. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Precision Optics and 1 mentions for electroCore. Precision Optics' average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat electroCore's score of 0.46 indicating that electroCore is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
13.7% of Precision Optics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.7% of electroCore shares are held by institutional investors. 16.3% of Precision Optics shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.1% of electroCore 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.
electroCore received 164 more outperform votes than Precision Optics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.12% of users gave electroCore an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Precision Optics an outperform vote.
Precision Optics has higher revenue and earnings than electroCore. Precision Optics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than electroCore, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Precision Optics has a beta of 0.12, indicating that its stock price is 88% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, electroCore has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Precision Optics has a net margin of -8.93% compared to Precision Optics' net margin of -117.49%. electroCore's return on equity of -21.74% beat Precision Optics' return on equity.
Summary
electroCore beats Precision Optics on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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