BLCO vs. RXST, STAA, WRBY, COO, APLS, OPCH, BBIO, LNTH, OGN, and HAE
Should you be buying Bausch + Lomb stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bausch + Lomb include RxSight (RXST), STAAR Surgical (STAA), Warby Parker (WRBY), Cooper Companies (COO), Apellis Pharmaceuticals (APLS), Option Care Health (OPCH), BridgeBio Pharma (BBIO), Lantheus (LNTH), Organon & Co. (OGN), and Haemonetics (HAE). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
RxSight (NASDAQ:RXST) and Bausch + Lomb (NYSE:BLCO) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends and risk.
RxSight received 12 more outperform votes than Bausch + Lomb when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.67% of users gave RxSight an outperform vote while only 38.71% of users gave Bausch + Lomb an outperform vote.
RxSight has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bausch + Lomb has a beta of 0.47, suggesting that its stock price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Bausch + Lomb has a net margin of -7.81% compared to Bausch + Lomb's net margin of -44.01%. RxSight's return on equity of 3.60% beat Bausch + Lomb's return on equity.
RxSight has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Bausch + Lomb. RxSight is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bausch + Lomb, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
RxSight currently has a consensus target price of $60.63, indicating a potential downside of 0.04%. Bausch + Lomb has a consensus target price of $19.45, indicating a potential upside of 32.80%. Given RxSight's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Bausch + Lomb is more favorable than RxSight.
78.8% of RxSight shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.1% of Bausch + Lomb shares are held by institutional investors. 21.1% of RxSight shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, RxSight had 6 more articles in the media than Bausch + Lomb. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for RxSight and 1 mentions for Bausch + Lomb. Bausch + Lomb's average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat RxSight's score of 0.83 indicating that RxSight is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
RxSight beats Bausch + Lomb on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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