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Nephros (NEPH) Competitors

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$2.26 -0.04 (-1.74%)
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NEPH vs. EDAP, GUTS, NSPR, FONR, SRTS, MLSS, INO, NTRB, ZYXI, and VANI

Should you be buying Nephros stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nephros include Edap Tms (EDAP), Fractyl Health (GUTS), InspireMD (NSPR), FONAR (FONR), Sensus Healthcare (SRTS), Milestone Scientific (MLSS), Inovio Pharmaceuticals (INO), Nutriband (NTRB), Zynex (ZYXI), and Vivani Medical (VANI). These companies are all part of the "medical equipment" industry.

Nephros vs.

Nephros (NASDAQ:NEPH) and Edap Tms (NASDAQ:EDAP) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, risk, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and institutional ownership.

Edap Tms received 336 more outperform votes than Nephros when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.38% of users gave Edap Tms an outperform vote while only 43.33% of users gave Nephros an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
NephrosOutperform Votes
13
43.33%
Underperform Votes
17
56.67%
Edap TmsOutperform Votes
349
60.38%
Underperform Votes
229
39.62%

41.1% of Nephros shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.7% of Edap Tms shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.7% of Nephros shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Edap Tms shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Edap Tms had 19 more articles in the media than Nephros. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Edap Tms and 1 mentions for Nephros. Edap Tms' average media sentiment score of -0.01 beat Nephros' score of -1.29 indicating that Edap Tms is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Nephros Negative
Edap Tms Neutral

Nephros presently has a consensus target price of $5.00, indicating a potential upside of 121.24%. Edap Tms has a consensus target price of $8.50, indicating a potential upside of 388.51%. Given Edap Tms' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Edap Tms is more favorable than Nephros.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Nephros
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Edap Tms
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.33

Nephros has a beta of 0.81, indicating that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Edap Tms has a beta of 0.13, indicating that its stock price is 87% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Nephros has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Edap Tms. Edap Tms is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nephros, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Nephros$15.52M1.54-$1.58M$0.0732.29
Edap Tms$62.77M1.04-$22.92M-$0.62-2.81

Nephros has a net margin of -6.86% compared to Edap Tms' net margin of -34.92%. Nephros' return on equity of -11.39% beat Edap Tms' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Nephros-6.86% -11.39% -8.30%
Edap Tms -34.92%-44.21%-25.88%

Summary

Nephros beats Edap Tms on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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NEPH vs. The Competition

MetricNephrosSurgical & medical instruments IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$23.96M$4.50B$5.38B$8.39B
Dividend YieldN/A43.63%5.21%4.10%
P/E Ratio-25.1129.4326.8019.71
Price / Sales1.5467.72389.55117.28
Price / CashN/A51.0838.2534.62
Price / Book2.836.236.804.50
Net Income-$1.58M$68.16M$3.23B$248.18M
7 Day Performance5.61%-0.19%1.53%0.23%
1 Month Performance19.58%19.19%10.05%12.39%
1 Year Performance1.80%21.47%16.75%7.07%

Nephros Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
NEPH
Nephros
2.0399 of 5 stars
$2.26
-1.7%
$5.00
+121.2%
-0.9%$23.96M$15.52M-25.1130Earnings Report
EDAP
Edap Tms
1.8227 of 5 stars
$2.15
-3.2%
$8.50
+295.3%
-71.0%$79.77M$64.12M-3.31230Earnings Report
Analyst Revision
Gap Down
GUTS
Fractyl Health
1.6929 of 5 stars
$1.71
+5.6%
$11.00
+543.3%
-74.7%$79.34M$93,000.00-0.14102Gap Down
NSPR
InspireMD
2.2409 of 5 stars
$2.58
-0.8%
$4.50
+74.4%
-4.7%$79.04M$7.01M-3.4450Gap Up
FONR
FONAR
1.7892 of 5 stars
$12.37
-0.2%
N/A-4.9%$76.83M$101.57M10.76480News Coverage
Earnings Report
Analyst Upgrade
SRTS
Sensus Healthcare
2.7091 of 5 stars
$4.55
+1.3%
$13.00
+185.7%
-20.7%$75.05M$41.81M11.3840News Coverage
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
MLSS
Milestone Scientific
1.1423 of 5 stars
$0.93
-2.6%
$1.25
+35.1%
+26.5%$72.52M$8.63M-13.2230
INO
Inovio Pharmaceuticals
3.6587 of 5 stars
$1.94
+7.8%
$12.20
+528.9%
-82.0%$71.15M$217,756.00-0.49320
NTRB
Nutriband
2.1833 of 5 stars
$5.83
+1.9%
$13.00
+123.0%
+9.2%$65.03M$2.14M-8.2110Positive News
ZYXI
Zynex
3.0227 of 5 stars
$2.15
+3.9%
$6.00
+179.1%
-78.5%$65.01M$172.40M14.33770Gap Down
VANI
Vivani Medical
3.1245 of 5 stars
$1.03
-1.0%
$4.00
+288.3%
-36.7%$61.02MN/A-2.2920News Coverage
Analyst Forecast

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This page (NASDAQ:NEPH) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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