SNN vs. ENOV, STE, ALGN, ZBH, CTLT, TECH, UHS, TFX, FMS, and NTRA
Should you be buying Smith & Nephew stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Smith & Nephew include Enovis (ENOV), STERIS (STE), Align Technology (ALGN), Zimmer Biomet (ZBH), Catalent (CTLT), Bio-Techne (TECH), Universal Health Services (UHS), Teleflex (TFX), Fresenius Medical Care (FMS), and Natera (NTRA). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Enovis (NYSE:ENOV) and Smith & Nephew (NYSE:SNN) are both medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, earnings and dividends.
Smith & Nephew has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Smith & Nephew's net margin of -1.95%. Smith & Nephew's return on equity of 3.84% beat Enovis' return on equity.
Enovis currently has a consensus target price of $75.43, indicating a potential upside of 37.04%. Given Smith & Nephew's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Enovis is more favorable than Smith & Nephew.
Smith & Nephew has higher revenue and earnings than Enovis.
98.5% of Enovis shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 25.6% of Smith & Nephew shares are held by institutional investors. 2.4% of Enovis shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Smith & Nephew shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Smith & Nephew received 420 more outperform votes than Enovis when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.97% of users gave Enovis an outperform vote while only 54.29% of users gave Smith & Nephew an outperform vote.
Enovis has a beta of 1.97, suggesting that its share price is 97% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Smith & Nephew has a beta of 0.73, suggesting that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Enovis had 1 more articles in the media than Smith & Nephew. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Enovis and 3 mentions for Smith & Nephew. Enovis' average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Smith & Nephew's score of 0.44 indicating that Smith & Nephew is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Enovis beats Smith & Nephew on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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