OSUR vs. TCMD, CRY, KIDS, ATRI, ANIK, CERS, UTMD, WST, ALGN, and COO
Should you be buying OraSure Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of OraSure Technologies include Tactile Systems Technology (TCMD), CryoLife (CRY), OrthoPediatrics (KIDS), Atrion (ATRI), Anika Therapeutics (ANIK), Cerus (CERS), Utah Medical Products (UTMD), West Pharmaceutical Services (WST), Align Technology (ALGN), and Cooper Companies (COO). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
OraSure Technologies (NASDAQ:OSUR) and Tactile Systems Technology (NASDAQ:TCMD) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership and community ranking.
OraSure Technologies has a beta of 0.23, meaning that its share price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tactile Systems Technology has a beta of 1.23, meaning that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.
OraSure Technologies received 187 more outperform votes than Tactile Systems Technology when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.72% of users gave OraSure Technologies an outperform vote while only 69.56% of users gave Tactile Systems Technology an outperform vote.
93.5% of OraSure Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.4% of Tactile Systems Technology shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.4% of OraSure Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Tactile Systems Technology shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
OraSure Technologies currently has a consensus target price of $6.63, suggesting a potential upside of 40.06%. Tactile Systems Technology has a consensus target price of $30.00, suggesting a potential upside of 135.66%. Given Tactile Systems Technology's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Tactile Systems Technology is more favorable than OraSure Technologies.
Tactile Systems Technology has a net margin of 10.19% compared to OraSure Technologies' net margin of 7.50%. Tactile Systems Technology's return on equity of 15.88% beat OraSure Technologies' return on equity.
OraSure Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Tactile Systems Technology. Tactile Systems Technology is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than OraSure Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Tactile Systems Technology had 1 more articles in the media than OraSure Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Tactile Systems Technology and 1 mentions for OraSure Technologies. OraSure Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat Tactile Systems Technology's score of 1.36 indicating that OraSure Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Tactile Systems Technology beats OraSure Technologies on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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