AVNS vs. ENOV, ESTA, CDRE, ZJYL, SMTI, INGN, LAKE, CLGN, APT, and MLSS
Should you be buying Avanos Medical stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Avanos Medical include Enovis (ENOV), Establishment Labs (ESTA), Cadre (CDRE), Jin Medical International (ZJYL), Sanara MedTech (SMTI), Inogen (INGN), Lakeland Industries (LAKE), CollPlant Biotechnologies (CLGN), Alpha Pro Tech (APT), and Milestone Scientific (MLSS). These companies are all part of the "surgical appliances & supplies" industry.
Avanos Medical (NYSE:AVNS) and Enovis (NYSE:ENOV) are both medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, risk, profitability and institutional ownership.
Avanos Medical received 59 more outperform votes than Enovis when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.00% of users gave Enovis an outperform vote while only 54.97% of users gave Avanos Medical an outperform vote.
95.2% of Avanos Medical shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.5% of Enovis shares are held by institutional investors. 3.9% of Avanos Medical shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of Enovis shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Enovis has higher revenue and earnings than Avanos Medical. Enovis is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Avanos Medical, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Enovis has a net margin of -4.51% compared to Avanos Medical's net margin of -9.15%. Avanos Medical's return on equity of 4.10% beat Enovis' return on equity.
Avanos Medical has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Enovis has a beta of 1.99, suggesting that its share price is 99% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Enovis has a consensus price target of $75.43, suggesting a potential upside of 52.50%. Given Enovis' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Enovis is more favorable than Avanos Medical.
In the previous week, Avanos Medical had 7 more articles in the media than Enovis. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Avanos Medical and 5 mentions for Enovis. Enovis' average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Avanos Medical's score of -0.21 indicating that Enovis is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Enovis beats Avanos Medical on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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