FONR vs. VANI, OM, ELMD, HYPR, RMTI, CUTR, POCI, ECOR, SMLR, and EDAP
Should you be buying FONAR stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FONAR include Vivani Medical (VANI), Outset Medical (OM), Electromed (ELMD), Hyperfine (HYPR), Rockwell Medical (RMTI), Cutera (CUTR), Precision Optics (POCI), electroCore (ECOR), Semler Scientific (SMLR), and Edap Tms (EDAP).
FONAR (NASDAQ:FONR) and Vivani Medical (NASDAQ:VANI) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, community ranking, earnings, valuation and media sentiment.
In the previous week, FONAR and FONAR both had 2 articles in the media. FONAR's average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat Vivani Medical's score of 0.50 indicating that FONAR is being referred to more favorably in the media.
50.6% of FONAR shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.8% of Vivani Medical shares are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of FONAR shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 55.6% of Vivani Medical shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
FONAR has a beta of 1.12, indicating that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vivani Medical has a beta of 3.26, indicating that its stock price is 226% more volatile than the S&P 500.
FONAR has higher revenue and earnings than Vivani Medical. Vivani Medical is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FONAR, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
FONAR has a net margin of 12.63% compared to Vivani Medical's net margin of 0.00%. FONAR's return on equity of 8.47% beat Vivani Medical's return on equity.
FONAR received 168 more outperform votes than Vivani Medical when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Vivani Medical an outperform vote while only 73.48% of users gave FONAR an outperform vote.
Summary
FONAR beats Vivani Medical on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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