RVP vs. KRMD, SRTS, BLUA, BWAY, ALUR, PDEX, NVNO, STIM, MGRM, and NSPR
Should you be buying Retractable Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Retractable Technologies include KORU Medical Systems (KRMD), Sensus Healthcare (SRTS), BlueRiver Acquisition (BLUA), BrainsWay (BWAY), Allurion Technologies (ALUR), Pro-Dex (PDEX), enVVeno Medical (NVNO), Neuronetics (STIM), Monogram Orthopaedics (MGRM), and InspireMD (NSPR). These companies are all part of the "surgical & medical instruments" industry.
Retractable Technologies (NYSE:RVP) and KORU Medical Systems (NASDAQ:KRMD) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, profitability, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
KORU Medical Systems received 36 more outperform votes than Retractable Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.00% of users gave KORU Medical Systems an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Retractable Technologies an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Retractable Technologies had 2 more articles in the media than KORU Medical Systems. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Retractable Technologies and 1 mentions for KORU Medical Systems. KORU Medical Systems' average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Retractable Technologies' score of 0.96 indicating that KORU Medical Systems is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
KORU Medical Systems has a consensus price target of $3.50, suggesting a potential upside of 64.32%. Given KORU Medical Systems' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe KORU Medical Systems is more favorable than Retractable Technologies.
Retractable Technologies has a net margin of -18.84% compared to KORU Medical Systems' net margin of -45.24%. Retractable Technologies' return on equity of -7.55% beat KORU Medical Systems' return on equity.
Retractable Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than KORU Medical Systems. KORU Medical Systems is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Retractable Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
7.6% of Retractable Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.6% of KORU Medical Systems shares are held by institutional investors. 55.0% of Retractable Technologies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 25.6% of KORU Medical Systems shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Retractable Technologies has a beta of 2.11, indicating that its stock price is 111% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, KORU Medical Systems has a beta of 0.55, indicating that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Retractable Technologies beats KORU Medical Systems on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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