ICUI vs. MMSI, HAE, XRAY, QDEL, NEOG, STAA, CERS, OSUR, UTMD, and ANIK
Should you be buying ICU Medical stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ICU Medical include Merit Medical Systems (MMSI), Haemonetics (HAE), DENTSPLY SIRONA (XRAY), QuidelOrtho (QDEL), Neogen (NEOG), STAAR Surgical (STAA), Cerus (CERS), OraSure Technologies (OSUR), Utah Medical Products (UTMD), and Anika Therapeutics (ANIK). These companies are all part of the "health care supplies" industry.
ICU Medical vs.
Merit Medical Systems (NASDAQ:MMSI) and ICU Medical (NASDAQ:ICUI) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation and dividends.
Merit Medical Systems presently has a consensus target price of $109.11, indicating a potential upside of 14.65%. ICU Medical has a consensus target price of $192.67, indicating a potential upside of 40.85%. Given ICU Medical's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe ICU Medical is more favorable than Merit Medical Systems.
Merit Medical Systems has a net margin of 9.05% compared to ICU Medical's net margin of -4.74%. Merit Medical Systems' return on equity of 15.61% beat ICU Medical's return on equity.
Merit Medical Systems has higher earnings, but lower revenue than ICU Medical. ICU Medical is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Merit Medical Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Merit Medical Systems has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ICU Medical has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Merit Medical Systems received 59 more outperform votes than ICU Medical when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.40% of users gave Merit Medical Systems an outperform vote while only 64.21% of users gave ICU Medical an outperform vote.
99.7% of Merit Medical Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.1% of ICU Medical shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.2% of Merit Medical Systems shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of ICU Medical shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Merit Medical Systems had 20 more articles in the media than ICU Medical. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Merit Medical Systems and 2 mentions for ICU Medical. ICU Medical's average media sentiment score of 1.66 beat Merit Medical Systems' score of 0.43 indicating that ICU Medical is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Merit Medical Systems beats ICU Medical on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:ICUI) was last updated on 6/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
