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NEOG vs. MMSI, ICUI, HAE, XRAY, QDEL, STAA, CERS, OSUR, ANIK, and UTMD

Should you be buying Neogen stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Neogen include Merit Medical Systems (MMSI), ICU Medical (ICUI), Haemonetics (HAE), DENTSPLY SIRONA (XRAY), QuidelOrtho (QDEL), STAAR Surgical (STAA), Cerus (CERS), OraSure Technologies (OSUR), Anika Therapeutics (ANIK), and Utah Medical Products (UTMD). These companies are all part of the "health care supplies" industry.

Neogen vs.

Neogen (NASDAQ:NEOG) and Merit Medical Systems (NASDAQ:MMSI) are both medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, profitability, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations and community ranking.

Merit Medical Systems received 117 more outperform votes than Neogen when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.05% of users gave Merit Medical Systems an outperform vote while only 56.56% of users gave Neogen an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
NeogenOutperform Votes
332
56.56%
Underperform Votes
255
43.44%
Merit Medical SystemsOutperform Votes
449
70.05%
Underperform Votes
192
29.95%

96.7% of Neogen shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.7% of Merit Medical Systems shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Neogen shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of Merit Medical Systems 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.

Neogen presently has a consensus price target of $9.75, suggesting a potential upside of 94.03%. Merit Medical Systems has a consensus price target of $114.33, suggesting a potential upside of 23.00%. Given Neogen's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Neogen is more favorable than Merit Medical Systems.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Neogen
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50
Merit Medical Systems
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Merit Medical Systems has higher revenue and earnings than Neogen. Neogen is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Merit Medical Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Neogen$906.00M1.20-$9.42M-$2.23-2.25
Merit Medical Systems$1.36B4.05$94.41M$2.0345.79

Merit Medical Systems has a net margin of 9.05% compared to Neogen's net margin of -52.12%. Merit Medical Systems' return on equity of 15.61% beat Neogen's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Neogen-52.12% 2.89% 1.98%
Merit Medical Systems 9.05%15.61%8.38%

Neogen has a beta of 1.57, indicating that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Merit Medical Systems has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Neogen had 28 more articles in the media than Merit Medical Systems. MarketBeat recorded 53 mentions for Neogen and 25 mentions for Merit Medical Systems. Merit Medical Systems' average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Neogen's score of 0.25 indicating that Merit Medical Systems is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Neogen
9 Very Positive mention(s)
8 Positive mention(s)
16 Neutral mention(s)
11 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Merit Medical Systems
15 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Merit Medical Systems beats Neogen on 16 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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NEOG vs. The Competition

MetricNeogenDiagnostic substances IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$1.09B$2.32B$5.36B$7.63B
Dividend YieldN/A0.78%5.11%4.33%
P/E Ratio-2.296.1021.7617.88
Price / Sales1.2046.17381.6595.73
Price / Cash9.8015.7538.1534.64
Price / Book0.352.936.484.02
Net Income-$9.42M-$65.73M$3.20B$247.22M
7 Day Performance-28.62%8.56%6.97%7.00%
1 Month Performance-44.48%-15.29%-8.33%-6.42%
1 Year Performance-58.16%-19.86%10.06%-0.03%

Neogen Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
NEOG
Neogen
3.2346 of 5 stars
$4.95
-8.3%
$9.75
+97.0%
-56.4%$1.07B$906.00M-2.262,110Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
High Trading Volume
MMSI
Merit Medical Systems
4.4891 of 5 stars
$92.51
+0.0%
$111.70
+20.7%
+28.4%$5.46B$1.36B45.356,950Short Interest ↓
Positive News
High Trading Volume
ICUI
ICU Medical
3.7824 of 5 stars
$142.25
+2.1%
$168.67
+18.6%
+43.1%$3.49B$2.38B-31.1314,500Positive News
Gap Down
HAE
Haemonetics
4.6255 of 5 stars
$58.96
-3.2%
$101.22
+71.7%
-30.4%$2.96B$1.37B23.212,820Short Interest ↓
Positive News
Gap Down
XRAY
DENTSPLY SIRONA
4.8133 of 5 stars
$13.24
-2.5%
$23.33
+76.2%
-58.2%$2.63B$3.79B-6.4015,000Analyst Downgrade
News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Down
QDEL
QuidelOrtho
4.3836 of 5 stars
$28.36
+0.8%
$51.20
+80.5%
-35.3%$1.91B$2.78B-0.947,000High Trading Volume
STAA
STAAR Surgical
4.2856 of 5 stars
$16.14
+1.4%
$25.29
+56.7%
-65.3%$796.11M$313.90M-39.37960Positive News
Gap Down
CERS
Cerus
2.5736 of 5 stars
$1.24
flat
$4.00
+222.6%
-22.3%$230.38M$180.27M-11.27290Positive News
OSUR
OraSure Technologies
4.6794 of 5 stars
$3.01
-3.2%
$5.50
+82.7%
-45.7%$225.15M$185.83M20.07840News Coverage
Positive News
ANIK
Anika Therapeutics
3.9384 of 5 stars
$13.92
-0.6%
$22.00
+58.0%
-44.4%$197.33M$119.91M-2.09300News Coverage
Gap Down
UTMD
Utah Medical Products
2.9867 of 5 stars
$54.39
-0.8%
N/A-22.3%$178.51M$40.90M13.77180News Coverage
Positive News
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This page (NASDAQ:NEOG) was last updated on 4/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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