ITGR vs. PODD, TFX, GMED, MASI, IART, ATEC, ATRC, OFIX, SRDX, and ANGO
Should you be buying Integer stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Integer include Insulet (PODD), Teleflex (TFX), Globus Medical (GMED), Masimo (MASI), Integra LifeSciences (IART), Alphatec (ATEC), AtriCure (ATRC), Orthofix Medical (OFIX), Surmodics (SRDX), and AngioDynamics (ANGO). These companies are all part of the "health care equipment" industry.
Insulet (NASDAQ:PODD) and Integer (NYSE:ITGR) are both medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership and profitability.
Insulet presently has a consensus target price of $239.18, indicating a potential upside of 34.98%. Integer has a consensus target price of $128.00, indicating a potential upside of 5.58%. Given Integer's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Insulet is more favorable than Integer.
Insulet has a net margin of 13.14% compared to Insulet's net margin of 6.01%. Integer's return on equity of 34.06% beat Insulet's return on equity.
In the previous week, Insulet had 9 more articles in the media than Integer. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Insulet and 4 mentions for Integer. Integer's average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Insulet's score of 0.86 indicating that Insulet is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Insulet has higher revenue and earnings than Integer. Integer is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Insulet, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
99.3% of Integer shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Insulet shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Integer 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.
Insulet has a beta of 1, indicating that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Integer has a beta of 1.12, indicating that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Insulet received 337 more outperform votes than Integer when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.08% of users gave Insulet an outperform vote while only 63.41% of users gave Integer an outperform vote.
Summary
Insulet beats Integer on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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