KRMD vs. BWAY, ALUR, BLUA, TELA, STIM, NVNO, SEPA, MGRM, SRTS, and PDEX
Should you be buying KORU Medical Systems stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of KORU Medical Systems include BrainsWay (BWAY), Allurion Technologies (ALUR), BlueRiver Acquisition (BLUA), TELA Bio (TELA), Neuronetics (STIM), enVVeno Medical (NVNO), SEP Acquisition (SEPA), Monogram Orthopaedics (MGRM), Sensus Healthcare (SRTS), and Pro-Dex (PDEX). These companies are all part of the "surgical & medical instruments" industry.
BrainsWay (NASDAQ:BWAY) and KORU Medical Systems (NASDAQ:KRMD) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk, dividends and analyst recommendations.
30.1% of BrainsWay shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.6% of KORU Medical Systems shares are held by institutional investors. 19.0% of BrainsWay shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 25.6% of KORU Medical Systems shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
BrainsWay has a net margin of -4.83% compared to BrainsWay's net margin of -45.24%. KORU Medical Systems' return on equity of -3.98% beat BrainsWay's return on equity.
BrainsWay has higher revenue and earnings than KORU Medical Systems. BrainsWay is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than KORU Medical Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, BrainsWay had 4 more articles in the media than KORU Medical Systems. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for BrainsWay and 1 mentions for KORU Medical Systems. BrainsWay's average media sentiment score of 1.94 beat KORU Medical Systems' score of 0.67 indicating that KORU Medical Systems is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
BrainsWay currently has a consensus target price of $13.00, indicating a potential upside of 141.64%. KORU Medical Systems has a consensus target price of $3.50, indicating a potential upside of 53.51%. Given KORU Medical Systems' higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe BrainsWay is more favorable than KORU Medical Systems.
BrainsWay received 26 more outperform votes than KORU Medical Systems when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.58% of users gave BrainsWay an outperform vote while only 60.00% of users gave KORU Medical Systems an outperform vote.
BrainsWay has a beta of 1.18, suggesting that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, KORU Medical Systems has a beta of 0.55, suggesting that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
BrainsWay beats KORU Medical Systems on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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