AUNA vs. LFMD, SLRN, EXAI, EHAB, OFIX, ALT, ABUS, KALV, ALEC, and CMPS
Should you be buying Auna stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Auna include LifeMD (LFMD), Acelyrin (SLRN), Exscientia (EXAI), Enhabit (EHAB), Orthofix Medical (OFIX), Altimmune (ALT), Arbutus Biopharma (ABUS), KalVista Pharmaceuticals (KALV), Alector (ALEC), and COMPASS Pathways (CMPS). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Auna (NYSE:AUNA) and LifeMD (NASDAQ:LFMD) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, earnings and risk.
35.5% of LifeMD shares are owned by institutional investors. 18.9% of LifeMD shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Auna currently has a consensus target price of $14.15, indicating a potential upside of 102.43%. LifeMD has a consensus target price of $10.40, indicating a potential downside of 12.38%. Given Auna's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Auna is more favorable than LifeMD.
Auna has higher earnings, but lower revenue than LifeMD.
In the previous week, Auna had 5 more articles in the media than LifeMD. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Auna and 6 mentions for LifeMD. LifeMD's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Auna's score of 0.16 indicating that LifeMD is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
LifeMD received 20 more outperform votes than Auna when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Auna an outperform vote while only 68.57% of users gave LifeMD an outperform vote.
Auna has a net margin of 0.00% compared to LifeMD's net margin of -14.01%.
Summary
LifeMD beats Auna on 6 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
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