ESTA vs. EAR, INGN, IVC, PRCT, NARI, IRTC, CNMD, NVCR, AORT, and SILK
Should you be buying Establishment Labs stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Establishment Labs include Eargo (EAR), Inogen (INGN), Invacare (IVC), PROCEPT BioRobotics (PRCT), Inari Medical (NARI), iRhythm Technologies (IRTC), CONMED (CNMD), NovoCure (NVCR), Artivion (AORT), and Silk Road Medical (SILK). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Establishment Labs (NASDAQ:ESTA) and Eargo (NASDAQ:EAR) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, risk and dividends.
Establishment Labs received 99 more outperform votes than Eargo when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.75% of users gave Establishment Labs an outperform vote while only 60.87% of users gave Eargo an outperform vote.
Establishment Labs currently has a consensus price target of $54.00, suggesting a potential upside of 12.03%. Given Establishment Labs' higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Establishment Labs is more favorable than Eargo.
72.9% of Establishment Labs shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.5% of Eargo shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.4% of Establishment Labs shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Eargo 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.
Establishment Labs has higher revenue and earnings than Eargo. Establishment Labs is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Eargo, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Establishment Labs has a net margin of -53.12% compared to Eargo's net margin of -263.14%. Eargo's return on equity of -135.08% beat Establishment Labs' return on equity.
In the previous week, Establishment Labs had 8 more articles in the media than Eargo. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Establishment Labs and 4 mentions for Eargo. Establishment Labs' average media sentiment score of 0.13 beat Eargo's score of -0.10 indicating that Establishment Labs is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Establishment Labs has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eargo has a beta of 1.5, suggesting that its stock price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Establishment Labs beats Eargo on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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