INGN vs. IVC, AVNS, ZJYL, SMTI, LAKE, MLSS, APT, COCH, CLGN, and NTRB
Should you be buying Inogen stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Inogen include Invacare (IVC), Avanos Medical (AVNS), Jin Medical International (ZJYL), Sanara MedTech (SMTI), Lakeland Industries (LAKE), Milestone Scientific (MLSS), Alpha Pro Tech (APT), Envoy Medical (COCH), CollPlant Biotechnologies (CLGN), and Nutriband (NTRB). These companies are all part of the "surgical appliances & supplies" industry.
Invacare (NYSE:IVC) and Inogen (NASDAQ:INGN) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings and dividends.
59.9% of Invacare shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.9% of Inogen shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.9% of Invacare shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Inogen shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Inogen has a consensus target price of $7.00, suggesting a potential downside of 38.22%.
Inogen received 121 more outperform votes than Invacare when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.68% of users gave Inogen an outperform vote while only 52.17% of users gave Invacare an outperform vote.
Invacare has a beta of 0.38, indicating that its stock price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Inogen has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Invacare has higher revenue and earnings than Inogen. Inogen is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Invacare, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Inogen had 3 more articles in the media than Invacare. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Inogen and 0 mentions for Invacare. Inogen's average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Invacare's score of 0.62 indicating that Inogen is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Invacare has a net margin of -9.99% compared to Inogen's net margin of -28.30%. Invacare's return on equity of -37.76% beat Inogen's return on equity.
Summary
Invacare beats Inogen on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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