SMLR vs. OM, ELMD, FONR, VANI, AXGN, EDAP, HYPR, ECOR, ZYXI, and RIGL
Should you be buying Semler Scientific stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Semler Scientific include Outset Medical (OM), Electromed (ELMD), FONAR (FONR), Vivani Medical (VANI), AxoGen (AXGN), Edap Tms (EDAP), Hyperfine (HYPR), electroCore (ECOR), Zynex (ZYXI), and Rigel Pharmaceuticals (RIGL). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Semler Scientific (NASDAQ:SMLR) and Outset Medical (NASDAQ:OM) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, risk, valuation and dividends.
Semler Scientific has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Outset Medical has a beta of 1.85, suggesting that its stock price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Outset Medical has a consensus target price of $5.42, suggesting a potential upside of 50.05%. Given Outset Medical's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Outset Medical is more favorable than Semler Scientific.
In the previous week, Outset Medical had 7 more articles in the media than Semler Scientific. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Outset Medical and 1 mentions for Semler Scientific. Outset Medical's average media sentiment score of 0.11 beat Semler Scientific's score of 0.00 indicating that Outset Medical is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Semler Scientific has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Outset Medical. Outset Medical is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Semler Scientific, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Outset Medical received 21 more outperform votes than Semler Scientific when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 50.00% of users gave Semler Scientific an outperform vote while only 37.93% of users gave Outset Medical an outperform vote.
Semler Scientific has a net margin of 32.92% compared to Outset Medical's net margin of -134.93%. Semler Scientific's return on equity of 30.36% beat Outset Medical's return on equity.
49.4% of Semler Scientific shares are held by institutional investors. 13.0% of Semler Scientific shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.5% of Outset Medical shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Semler Scientific beats Outset Medical on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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