Kooth (KOO) Competitors

Kooth (LON:KOO) and Instem (LON:INS) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.

Do analysts prefer KOO or INS?

Kooth presently has a consensus target price of GBX 583.33, suggesting a potential upside of 286.57%. Given Kooth's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Kooth is more favorable than Instem.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Kooth	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
Instem	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of KOO or INS?

65.0% of Kooth shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.9% of Instem shares are held by institutional investors. 17.3% of Kooth shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 30.0% of Instem shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Is KOO or INS more profitable?

Kooth has a net margin of 7.89% compared to Instem's net margin of 5.50%. Kooth's return on equity of 18.59% beat Instem's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Kooth	7.89%	18.59%	10.12%
Instem	5.50%	6.35%	4.62%

Does the media prefer KOO or INS?

In the previous week, Instem's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Kooth's score of 0.59 indicating that Instem is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Kooth	Positive
Instem	Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in KOO or INS?

Instem received 82 more outperform votes than Kooth when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 91.67% of users gave Kooth an outperform vote while only 52.25% of users gave Instem an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Kooth	Outperform Votes 11 91.67%	Underperform Votes 1 8.33%
Instem	Outperform Votes 93 52.25%	Underperform Votes 85 47.75%

Which has more risk & volatility, KOO or INS?

Kooth has a beta of 0.71, suggesting that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Instem has a beta of 0.42, suggesting that its share price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, KOO or INS?

Kooth has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Instem. Instem is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kooth, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Kooth	£50.72M	1.09	£4.00M	£10.64	14.18
Instem	£61.63M	0.00	£3.34M	£0.14	N/A

Summary

Kooth beats Instem on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.