NXGL vs. APYX, SEPA, CTCX, NUVO, DRIO, LNSR, ICCM, CTSO, LUCD, and DXR
Should you be buying NEXGEL stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NEXGEL include Apyx Medical (APYX), SEP Acquisition (SEPA), Carmell (CTCX), Holdco Nuvo Group D.G (NUVO), DarioHealth (DRIO), LENSAR (LNSR), IceCure Medical (ICCM), Cytosorbents (CTSO), Lucid Diagnostics (LUCD), and Daxor (DXR). These companies are all part of the "surgical & medical instruments" industry.
NEXGEL (NASDAQ:NXGL) and Apyx Medical (NASDAQ:APYX) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability and earnings.
Apyx Medical has a consensus price target of $6.17, suggesting a potential upside of 273.74%. Given Apyx Medical's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Apyx Medical is more favorable than NEXGEL.
Apyx Medical received 76 more outperform votes than NEXGEL when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.60% of users gave Apyx Medical an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave NEXGEL an outperform vote.
NEXGEL has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Apyx Medical has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Apyx Medical had 1 more articles in the media than NEXGEL. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Apyx Medical and 3 mentions for NEXGEL. Apyx Medical's average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat NEXGEL's score of 0.51 indicating that Apyx Medical is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Apyx Medical has a net margin of -45.20% compared to NEXGEL's net margin of -67.48%. NEXGEL's return on equity of -54.71% beat Apyx Medical's return on equity.
2.2% of NEXGEL shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.3% of Apyx Medical shares are held by institutional investors. 27.2% of NEXGEL shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 13.1% of Apyx Medical 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.
NEXGEL has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Apyx Medical. NEXGEL is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Apyx Medical, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Apyx Medical beats NEXGEL on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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