ICAD vs. CODX, TTOO, APYX, PYPD, STIM, ARAY, CLPT, CVRX, TELA, and QIPT
Should you be buying iCAD stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of iCAD include Co-Diagnostics (CODX), T2 Biosystems (TTOO), Apyx Medical (APYX), PolyPid (PYPD), Neuronetics (STIM), Accuray (ARAY), ClearPoint Neuro (CLPT), CVRx (CVRX), TELA Bio (TELA), and Quipt Home Medical (QIPT). These companies are all part of the "surgical & medical instruments" industry.
iCAD (NASDAQ:ICAD) and Co-Diagnostics (NASDAQ:CODX) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, risk, community ranking and media sentiment.
iCAD has a net margin of -15.20% compared to Co-Diagnostics' net margin of -582.36%. iCAD's return on equity of -14.00% beat Co-Diagnostics' return on equity.
iCAD presently has a consensus target price of $5.00, indicating a potential upside of 244.83%. Co-Diagnostics has a consensus target price of $2.00, indicating a potential upside of 90.48%. Given iCAD's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe iCAD is more favorable than Co-Diagnostics.
24.6% of iCAD shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.0% of Co-Diagnostics shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.0% of iCAD shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of Co-Diagnostics shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
iCAD has a beta of 1.36, meaning that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Co-Diagnostics has a beta of -0.65, meaning that its share price is 165% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Co-Diagnostics received 45 more outperform votes than iCAD when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.34% of users gave Co-Diagnostics an outperform vote while only 62.81% of users gave iCAD an outperform vote.
iCAD has higher revenue and earnings than Co-Diagnostics. iCAD is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Co-Diagnostics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, iCAD had 1 more articles in the media than Co-Diagnostics. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for iCAD and 2 mentions for Co-Diagnostics. Co-Diagnostics' average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat iCAD's score of 0.79 indicating that Co-Diagnostics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
iCAD beats Co-Diagnostics on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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