CO vs. VMD, CRVO, CTMX, VXRT, SKYE, IMAB, RENB, CRDL, INCR, and AMWL
Should you be buying Global Cord Blood stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Global Cord Blood include Viemed Healthcare (VMD), CervoMed (CRVO), CytomX Therapeutics (CTMX), Vaxart (VXRT), Skye Bioscience (SKYE), I-Mab (IMAB), Renovaro (RENB), Cardiol Therapeutics (CRDL), InterCure (INCR), and American Well (AMWL). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Global Cord Blood (NYSE:CO) and Viemed Healthcare (NASDAQ:VMD) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, earnings, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Global Cord Blood received 338 more outperform votes than Viemed Healthcare when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.45% of users gave Global Cord Blood an outperform vote while only 42.86% of users gave Viemed Healthcare an outperform vote.
Global Cord Blood has higher revenue and earnings than Viemed Healthcare. Global Cord Blood is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Viemed Healthcare, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Global Cord Blood has a beta of 0.16, indicating that its stock price is 84% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Viemed Healthcare has a beta of 1.53, indicating that its stock price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Viemed Healthcare has a net margin of 5.32% compared to Global Cord Blood's net margin of 0.00%. Viemed Healthcare's return on equity of 9.32% beat Global Cord Blood's return on equity.
74.2% of Viemed Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Global Cord Blood shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 19.2% of Viemed Healthcare shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Global Cord Blood had 1 more articles in the media than Viemed Healthcare. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Global Cord Blood and 3 mentions for Viemed Healthcare. Viemed Healthcare's average media sentiment score of 1.62 beat Global Cord Blood's score of 0.14 indicating that Viemed Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Viemed Healthcare beats Global Cord Blood on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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