KIDS vs. SILK, FNA, ATRI, EMBC, SIBN, OFIX, IRMD, AORT, BVS, and SRDX
Should you be buying OrthoPediatrics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of OrthoPediatrics include Silk Road Medical (SILK), Paragon 28 (FNA), Atrion (ATRI), Embecta (EMBC), SI-BONE (SIBN), Orthofix Medical (OFIX), Iradimed (IRMD), Artivion (AORT), Bioventus (BVS), and Surmodics (SRDX). These companies are all part of the "surgical & medical instruments" industry.
OrthoPediatrics (NASDAQ:KIDS) and Silk Road Medical (NASDAQ:SILK) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and risk.
69.1% of OrthoPediatrics shares are held by institutional investors. 31.8% of OrthoPediatrics shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.9% of Silk Road Medical shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
OrthoPediatrics has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Silk Road Medical. OrthoPediatrics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Silk Road Medical, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
OrthoPediatrics currently has a consensus target price of $45.50, suggesting a potential upside of 40.09%. Silk Road Medical has a consensus target price of $22.55, suggesting a potential upside of 0.20%. Given OrthoPediatrics' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe OrthoPediatrics is more favorable than Silk Road Medical.
OrthoPediatrics has a beta of 1.16, indicating that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Silk Road Medical has a beta of 1.43, indicating that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, OrthoPediatrics and OrthoPediatrics both had 2 articles in the media. Silk Road Medical's average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat OrthoPediatrics' score of 0.84 indicating that Silk Road Medical is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
OrthoPediatrics received 216 more outperform votes than Silk Road Medical when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.56% of users gave OrthoPediatrics an outperform vote while only 50.56% of users gave Silk Road Medical an outperform vote.
OrthoPediatrics has a net margin of -13.58% compared to Silk Road Medical's net margin of -29.02%. OrthoPediatrics' return on equity of -5.12% beat Silk Road Medical's return on equity.
Summary
OrthoPediatrics beats Silk Road Medical on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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