LAKE vs. IRMD, EMBC, RXST, BBNX, CBLL, DCTH, AVNS, BFLY, BVS, and KIDS
Should you be buying Lakeland Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lakeland Industries include Iradimed (IRMD), Embecta (EMBC), RxSight (RXST), Beta Bionics (BBNX), CeriBell (CBLL), Delcath Systems (DCTH), Avanos Medical (AVNS), Butterfly Network (BFLY), Bioventus (BVS), and OrthoPediatrics (KIDS). These companies are all part of the "medical equipment" industry.
Lakeland Industries vs.
Iradimed (NASDAQ:IRMD) and Lakeland Industries (NASDAQ:LAKE) 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.
Iradimed has a net margin of 26.26% compared to Lakeland Industries' net margin of -0.42%. Iradimed's return on equity of 24.12% beat Lakeland Industries' return on equity.
In the previous week, Iradimed had 1 more articles in the media than Lakeland Industries. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Iradimed and 1 mentions for Lakeland Industries. Iradimed's average media sentiment score of 1.83 beat Lakeland Industries' score of 1.79 indicating that Iradimed is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Iradimed has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Lakeland Industries. Lakeland Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Iradimed, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Iradimed currently has a consensus target price of $72.00, suggesting a potential upside of 35.31%. Lakeland Industries has a consensus target price of $27.00, suggesting a potential upside of 43.62%. Given Lakeland Industries' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Lakeland Industries is more favorable than Iradimed.
Iradimed has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lakeland Industries has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Iradimed received 55 more outperform votes than Lakeland Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.58% of users gave Iradimed an outperform vote while only 61.86% of users gave Lakeland Industries an outperform vote.
Iradimed pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Lakeland Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Iradimed pays out 43.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lakeland Industries pays out -5.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Iradimed has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Lakeland Industries has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
92.3% of Iradimed shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.7% of Lakeland Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 36.8% of Iradimed shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of Lakeland Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Iradimed beats Lakeland Industries on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:LAKE) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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