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QuidelOrtho (QDEL) Competitors

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$32.38 -0.19 (-0.58%)
As of 05/20/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

QDEL vs. MMSI, ICUI, HAE, XRAY, NEOG, STAA, CERS, OSUR, UTMD, and ANIK

Should you be buying QuidelOrtho stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of QuidelOrtho include Merit Medical Systems (MMSI), ICU Medical (ICUI), Haemonetics (HAE), DENTSPLY SIRONA (XRAY), Neogen (NEOG), STAAR Surgical (STAA), Cerus (CERS), OraSure Technologies (OSUR), Utah Medical Products (UTMD), and Anika Therapeutics (ANIK). These companies are all part of the "health care supplies" industry.

QuidelOrtho vs.

Merit Medical Systems (NASDAQ:MMSI) and QuidelOrtho (NASDAQ:QDEL) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, risk and community ranking.

Merit Medical Systems received 9 more outperform votes than QuidelOrtho when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.26% of users gave Merit Medical Systems an outperform vote while only 66.92% of users gave QuidelOrtho an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Merit Medical SystemsOutperform Votes
456
70.26%
Underperform Votes
193
29.74%
QuidelOrthoOutperform Votes
447
66.92%
Underperform Votes
221
33.08%

Merit Medical Systems presently has a consensus target price of $108.67, suggesting a potential upside of 9.98%. QuidelOrtho has a consensus target price of $44.33, suggesting a potential upside of 36.92%. Given QuidelOrtho's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe QuidelOrtho is more favorable than Merit Medical Systems.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Merit Medical Systems
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
QuidelOrtho
1 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.43

99.7% of Merit Medical Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.0% of QuidelOrtho shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.2% of Merit Medical Systems shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of QuidelOrtho 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, Merit Medical Systems had 25 more articles in the media than QuidelOrtho. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for Merit Medical Systems and 8 mentions for QuidelOrtho. QuidelOrtho's average media sentiment score of 1.48 beat Merit Medical Systems' score of 0.98 indicating that QuidelOrtho is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Merit Medical Systems
16 Very Positive mention(s)
5 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
QuidelOrtho
7 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Merit Medical Systems has a net margin of 9.05% compared to QuidelOrtho's net margin of -72.84%. Merit Medical Systems' return on equity of 15.61% beat QuidelOrtho's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Merit Medical Systems9.05% 15.61% 8.38%
QuidelOrtho -72.84%3.78%1.80%

Merit Medical Systems has a beta of 0.7, suggesting that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, QuidelOrtho has a beta of 0.13, suggesting that its stock price is 87% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Merit Medical Systems has higher earnings, but lower revenue than QuidelOrtho. QuidelOrtho is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Merit Medical Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Merit Medical Systems$1.39B4.21$94.41M$2.0448.44
QuidelOrtho$2.76B0.79-$2.03B-$4.97-6.52

Summary

Merit Medical Systems beats QuidelOrtho on 16 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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QDEL vs. The Competition

MetricQuidelOrthoDiagnostic substances IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$2.20B$2.67B$5.43B$8.48B
Dividend YieldN/A0.75%5.22%4.11%
P/E Ratio-1.077.6626.8220.05
Price / Sales0.7938.04393.28116.44
Price / Cash1.2915.7538.2534.62
Price / Book0.725.846.874.61
Net Income-$2.03B-$65.73M$3.22B$248.19M
7 Day Performance-3.49%5.72%6.81%2.97%
1 Month Performance31.84%8.36%13.71%16.58%
1 Year Performance-21.69%-14.74%18.30%8.16%

QuidelOrtho Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
QDEL
QuidelOrtho
4.5567 of 5 stars
$32.38
-0.6%
$44.33
+36.9%
-23.6%$2.20B$2.76B-1.077,000Positive News
Gap Up
MMSI
Merit Medical Systems
3.6648 of 5 stars
$98.73
+3.0%
$107.78
+9.2%
+19.0%$5.83B$1.39B48.406,850Trending News
Insider Trade
Analyst Revision
ICUI
ICU Medical
4.7793 of 5 stars
$144.34
+4.4%
$192.67
+33.5%
+30.7%$3.55B$2.38B-31.5814,500Analyst Upgrade
Insider Trade
Gap Up
HAE
Haemonetics
4.2003 of 5 stars
$70.23
+3.0%
$97.89
+39.4%
-27.7%$3.53B$1.36B27.652,820Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
XRAY
DENTSPLY SIRONA
4.8434 of 5 stars
$16.75
+5.9%
$20.36
+21.6%
-40.6%$3.34B$3.72B-8.0915,000Gap Up
NEOG
Neogen
3.4425 of 5 stars
$6.50
+8.9%
$9.00
+38.5%
-54.6%$1.41B$906.00M-2.972,110Gap Up
High Trading Volume
STAA
STAAR Surgical
4.1449 of 5 stars
$20.27
+4.4%
$24.63
+21.5%
-55.0%$1.00B$279.13M-49.44960Positive News
Buyback Announcement
CERS
Cerus
2.943 of 5 stars
$1.35
+4.7%
$3.50
+159.3%
-31.3%$258.07M$185.14M-12.27290Positive News
Gap Up
OSUR
OraSure Technologies
3.5166 of 5 stars
$2.67
+6.4%
$5.50
+106.0%
-43.2%$206.89M$185.83M17.80840News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
UTMD
Utah Medical Products
2.2237 of 5 stars
$54.02
+0.8%
N/A-21.3%$177.29M$39.27M13.68180Positive News
Dividend Announcement
ANIK
Anika Therapeutics
4.1983 of 5 stars
$11.85
+1.8%
$21.33
+80.0%
-53.4%$169.94M$119.91M-1.78300

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This page (NASDAQ:QDEL) was last updated on 5/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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