LUNA vs. NOTV, ONMD, BIAF, BASI, AIKI, DKDCA, FOXO, ISPC, PGEN, and NRC
Should you be buying Luna Innovations stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Luna Innovations include Inotiv (NOTV), OneMedNet (ONMD), bioAffinity Technologies (BIAF), Bioanalytical Systems (BASI), AIkido Pharma (AIKI), Data Knights Acquisition (DKDCA), FOXO Technologies (FOXO), iSpecimen (ISPC), Precigen (PGEN), and National Research (NRC).
Luna Innovations (NASDAQ:LUNA) and Inotiv (NASDAQ:NOTV) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
87.5% of Luna Innovations shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.2% of Inotiv shares are held by institutional investors. 7.6% of Luna Innovations shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.8% of Inotiv shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Luna Innovations has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Inotiv. Luna Innovations is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Inotiv, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Luna Innovations presently has a consensus price target of $10.00, suggesting a potential upside of 199.40%. Inotiv has a consensus price target of $6.19, suggesting a potential upside of 230.88%. Given Inotiv's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Inotiv is more favorable than Luna Innovations.
In the previous week, Luna Innovations had 17 more articles in the media than Inotiv. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Luna Innovations and 1 mentions for Inotiv. Inotiv's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Luna Innovations' score of 0.31 indicating that Inotiv is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Luna Innovations received 181 more outperform votes than Inotiv when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.23% of users gave Luna Innovations an outperform vote while only 47.37% of users gave Inotiv an outperform vote.
Luna Innovations has a net margin of -1.82% compared to Inotiv's net margin of -12.90%. Luna Innovations' return on equity of 3.61% beat Inotiv's return on equity.
Luna Innovations has a beta of 1.4, indicating that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Inotiv has a beta of 3.37, indicating that its share price is 237% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Luna Innovations beats Inotiv on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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