OSUR vs. TCMD, CRY, KIDS, ATRI, CERS, ANIK, UTMD, WST, COO, and ALGN
Should you be buying OraSure Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of OraSure Technologies include Tactile Systems Technology (TCMD), CryoLife (CRY), OrthoPediatrics (KIDS), Atrion (ATRI), Cerus (CERS), Anika Therapeutics (ANIK), Utah Medical Products (UTMD), West Pharmaceutical Services (WST), Cooper Companies (COO), and Align Technology (ALGN). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
OraSure Technologies (NASDAQ:OSUR) and Tactile Systems Technology (NASDAQ:TCMD) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and valuation.
OraSure Technologies presently has a consensus price target of $6.67, suggesting a potential upside of 62.21%. Given OraSure Technologies' higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe OraSure Technologies is more favorable than Tactile Systems Technology.
In the previous week, OraSure Technologies and OraSure Technologies both had 1 articles in the media. OraSure Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.82 beat Tactile Systems Technology's score of 1.54 indicating that OraSure Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
OraSure Technologies received 182 more outperform votes than Tactile Systems Technology when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.90% of users gave Tactile Systems Technology an outperform vote while only 69.49% of users gave OraSure Technologies an outperform vote.
Tactile Systems Technology has a net margin of 11.57% compared to OraSure Technologies' net margin of 9.88%. Tactile Systems Technology's return on equity of 16.94% beat OraSure Technologies' return on equity.
OraSure Technologies has a beta of 0.05, suggesting that its stock price is 95% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tactile Systems Technology has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
OraSure Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Tactile Systems Technology. Tactile Systems Technology is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than OraSure Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
93.5% of OraSure Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.4% of Tactile Systems Technology shares are held by institutional investors. 3.4% of OraSure Technologies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Tactile Systems Technology shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
OraSure Technologies and Tactile Systems Technology tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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