SILK vs. CSII, LUNG, INO, TNDM, PRCT, NARI, IRTC, ICUI, IART, and NVCR
Should you be buying Silk Road Medical stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Silk Road Medical include Cardiovascular Systems (CSII), Pulmonx (LUNG), Inovio Pharmaceuticals (INO), Tandem Diabetes Care (TNDM), PROCEPT BioRobotics (PRCT), Inari Medical (NARI), iRhythm Technologies (IRTC), ICU Medical (ICUI), Integra LifeSciences (IART), and NovoCure (NVCR). These companies are all part of the "surgical & medical instruments" industry.
Silk Road Medical (NASDAQ:SILK) and Cardiovascular Systems (NASDAQ:CSII) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Cardiovascular Systems received 328 more outperform votes than Silk Road Medical when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.02% of users gave Cardiovascular Systems an outperform vote while only 50.56% of users gave Silk Road Medical an outperform vote.
86.6% of Cardiovascular Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.9% of Silk Road Medical shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.8% of Cardiovascular Systems shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Cardiovascular Systems has a net margin of -15.79% compared to Silk Road Medical's net margin of -29.02%. Cardiovascular Systems' return on equity of -15.39% beat Silk Road Medical's return on equity.
Silk Road Medical presently has a consensus target price of $20.10, indicating a potential downside of 2.33%. Given Silk Road Medical's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Silk Road Medical is more favorable than Cardiovascular Systems.
In the previous week, Silk Road Medical had 9 more articles in the media than Cardiovascular Systems. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Silk Road Medical and 1 mentions for Cardiovascular Systems. Silk Road Medical's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Cardiovascular Systems' score of -0.11 indicating that Silk Road Medical is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Silk Road Medical has a beta of 1.43, meaning that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cardiovascular Systems has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Cardiovascular Systems has higher revenue and earnings than Silk Road Medical. Cardiovascular Systems 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.
Summary
Cardiovascular Systems beats Silk Road Medical on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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