ATRI vs. KIDS, CSII, ATRC, QDEL, NEOG, ICUI, STAA, ANIK, OSUR, and CERS
Should you be buying Atrion stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Atrion include OrthoPediatrics (KIDS), Cardiovascular Systems (CSII), AtriCure (ATRC), QuidelOrtho (QDEL), Neogen (NEOG), ICU Medical (ICUI), STAAR Surgical (STAA), Anika Therapeutics (ANIK), OraSure Technologies (OSUR), and Cerus (CERS). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
OrthoPediatrics (NASDAQ:KIDS) and Atrion (NASDAQ:ATRI) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, valuation and profitability.
OrthoPediatrics received 177 more outperform votes than Atrion when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.56% of users gave OrthoPediatrics an outperform vote while only 54.89% of users gave Atrion an outperform vote.
Atrion has higher revenue and earnings than OrthoPediatrics. OrthoPediatrics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Atrion, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Atrion has a net margin of 10.60% compared to Atrion's net margin of -13.58%. OrthoPediatrics' return on equity of 7.75% beat Atrion's return on equity.
OrthoPediatrics has a beta of 1.16, indicating that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Atrion has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
OrthoPediatrics presently has a consensus price target of $45.50, suggesting a potential upside of 44.08%. Given Atrion's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe OrthoPediatrics is more favorable than Atrion.
69.1% of OrthoPediatrics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.2% of Atrion shares are held by institutional investors. 31.8% of OrthoPediatrics shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 22.8% of Atrion shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Atrion had 9 more articles in the media than OrthoPediatrics. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Atrion and 2 mentions for OrthoPediatrics. Atrion's average media sentiment score of 1.88 beat OrthoPediatrics' score of 0.45 indicating that OrthoPediatrics is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
OrthoPediatrics beats Atrion on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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