ICU vs. RVP, AKLI, FEMY, NMTC, MDAI, LNSR, MODD, IINN, CODX, and CTCX
Should you be buying SeaStar Medical stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SeaStar Medical include Retractable Technologies (RVP), Akili (AKLI), Femasys (FEMY), NeuroOne Medical Technologies (NMTC), Spectral AI (MDAI), LENSAR (LNSR), Modular Medical (MODD), Inspira Technologies Oxy B.H.N. (IINN), Co-Diagnostics (CODX), and Carmell (CTCX). These companies are all part of the "surgical & medical instruments" industry.
Retractable Technologies (NYSE:RVP) and SeaStar Medical (NASDAQ:ICU) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, profitability, risk and dividends.
SeaStar Medical received 1 more outperform votes than Retractable Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 100.00% of users gave SeaStar Medical an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Retractable Technologies an outperform vote.
Retractable Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than SeaStar Medical. Retractable Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SeaStar Medical, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SeaStar Medical has a net margin of 0.00% compared to SeaStar Medical's net margin of -16.08%. Retractable Technologies' return on equity of 0.00% beat SeaStar Medical's return on equity.
7.6% of Retractable Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.7% of SeaStar Medical shares are held by institutional investors. 54.6% of Retractable Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of SeaStar Medical shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Retractable Technologies has a beta of 2.11, indicating that its share price is 111% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SeaStar Medical has a beta of -0.96, indicating that its share price is 196% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Retractable Technologies and Retractable Technologies both had 7 articles in the media. Retractable Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat SeaStar Medical's score of 0.06 indicating that SeaStar Medical is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Retractable Technologies beats SeaStar Medical on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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