LAKE vs. IRMD, AVNS, SIBN, KIDS, BFLY, TMCI, BBNX, NPCE, DCTH, and SMLR
Should you be buying Lakeland Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lakeland Industries include Iradimed (IRMD), Avanos Medical (AVNS), SI-BONE (SIBN), OrthoPediatrics (KIDS), Butterfly Network (BFLY), Treace Medical Concepts (TMCI), Beta Bionics (BBNX), NeuroPace (NPCE), Delcath Systems (DCTH), and Semler Scientific (SMLR). These companies are all part of the "medical equipment" industry.
Lakeland Industries vs.
Iradimed (NASDAQ:IRMD) and Lakeland Industries (NASDAQ:LAKE) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, profitability and community ranking.
Iradimed currently has a consensus target price of $72.00, indicating a potential upside of 39.08%. Lakeland Industries has a consensus target price of $27.00, indicating a potential upside of 73.30%. Given Lakeland Industries' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Lakeland Industries is more favorable than Iradimed.
Iradimed has a net margin of 26.26% compared to Lakeland Industries' net margin of -0.42%. Iradimed's return on equity of 24.12% beat Lakeland Industries' return on equity.
Iradimed received 53 more outperform votes than Lakeland Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.40% of users gave Iradimed an outperform vote while only 62.24% of users gave Lakeland Industries an outperform vote.
Iradimed pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Lakeland Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Iradimed pays out 45.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lakeland Industries pays out -5.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Iradimed has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lakeland Industries has a beta of 0.86, meaning that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
92.3% of Iradimed shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.7% of Lakeland Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 37.1% of Iradimed shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of Lakeland Industries shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Iradimed has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Lakeland Industries. Lakeland Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Iradimed, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Lakeland Industries had 10 more articles in the media than Iradimed. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Lakeland Industries and 6 mentions for Iradimed. Iradimed's average media sentiment score of 1.37 beat Lakeland Industries' score of -0.06 indicating that Iradimed is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Iradimed beats Lakeland Industries on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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