PDCO vs. OMI, HSIC, VCEL, STAA, ARVN, RYTM, VERA, NARI, ICUI, and MRUS
Should you be buying Patterson Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Patterson Companies include Owens & Minor (OMI), Henry Schein (HSIC), Vericel (VCEL), STAAR Surgical (STAA), Arvinas (ARVN), Rhythm Pharmaceuticals (RYTM), Vera Therapeutics (VERA), Inari Medical (NARI), ICU Medical (ICUI), and Merus (MRUS). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Patterson Companies (NASDAQ:PDCO) and Owens & Minor (NYSE:OMI) are both medical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, dividends and community ranking.
Patterson Companies has a beta of 1.06, indicating that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Owens & Minor has a beta of 0.43, indicating that its share price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Patterson Companies currently has a consensus target price of $33.11, suggesting a potential upside of 26.47%. Owens & Minor has a consensus target price of $23.29, suggesting a potential downside of 5.88%. Given Patterson Companies' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Patterson Companies is more favorable than Owens & Minor.
Patterson Companies has a net margin of 2.95% compared to Owens & Minor's net margin of -0.40%. Patterson Companies' return on equity of 20.98% beat Owens & Minor's return on equity.
Patterson Companies received 110 more outperform votes than Owens & Minor when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 52.49% of users gave Patterson Companies an outperform vote while only 48.82% of users gave Owens & Minor an outperform vote.
Patterson Companies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Owens & Minor. Owens & Minor is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Patterson Companies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
85.4% of Patterson Companies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.0% of Owens & Minor shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of Patterson Companies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Owens & Minor shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Patterson Companies had 13 more articles in the media than Owens & Minor. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Patterson Companies and 4 mentions for Owens & Minor. Owens & Minor's average media sentiment score of -0.04 beat Patterson Companies' score of -0.08 indicating that Owens & Minor is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Patterson Companies beats Owens & Minor on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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