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Nephros (NEPH) Competitors

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NEPH vs. MBOT, SRTS, NSPR, FONR, MLSS, ZYXI, INO, ICCM, CTSO, and VANI

Should you be buying Nephros stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nephros include Microbot Medical (MBOT), Sensus Healthcare (SRTS), InspireMD (NSPR), FONAR (FONR), Milestone Scientific (MLSS), Zynex (ZYXI), Inovio Pharmaceuticals (INO), IceCure Medical (ICCM), Cytosorbents (CTSO), and Vivani Medical (VANI). These companies are all part of the "medical equipment" industry.

Nephros vs.

Microbot Medical (NASDAQ:MBOT) and Nephros (NASDAQ:NEPH) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, media sentiment, valuation, dividends and profitability.

16.3% of Microbot Medical shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.1% of Nephros shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.4% of Microbot Medical shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.1% of Nephros shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Microbot MedicalN/AN/A-$10.74M-$0.74-3.36
Nephros$14.16M1.47-$1.58M-$0.09-21.77

Microbot Medical has a beta of 1.4, meaning that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nephros has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Microbot Medical has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Nephros' net margin of -6.86%. Nephros' return on equity of -11.39% beat Microbot Medical's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Microbot MedicalN/A -218.30% -158.17%
Nephros -6.86%-11.39%-8.30%

Microbot Medical currently has a consensus target price of $9.00, suggesting a potential upside of 261.45%. Nephros has a consensus target price of $5.00, suggesting a potential upside of 155.23%. Given Microbot Medical's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Microbot Medical is more favorable than Nephros.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Microbot Medical
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Nephros
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Microbot Medical received 336 more outperform votes than Nephros when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.79% of users gave Microbot Medical an outperform vote while only 43.33% of users gave Nephros an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Microbot MedicalOutperform Votes
349
70.79%
Underperform Votes
144
29.21%
NephrosOutperform Votes
13
43.33%
Underperform Votes
17
56.67%

In the previous week, Microbot Medical had 8 more articles in the media than Nephros. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Microbot Medical and 0 mentions for Nephros. Microbot Medical's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Nephros' score of 0.00 indicating that Microbot Medical is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Microbot Medical Positive
Nephros Neutral

Summary

Microbot Medical beats Nephros on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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NEPH vs. The Competition

MetricNephrosSurgical & medical instruments IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$20.77M$4.04B$5.30B$7.35B
Dividend YieldN/A39.51%5.12%4.30%
P/E Ratio-21.7727.6821.8017.80
Price / Sales1.4747.06379.9697.74
Price / CashN/A51.0838.2634.64
Price / Book2.455.816.443.98
Net Income-$1.58M$67.09M$3.21B$247.73M
7 Day Performance2.57%1.97%2.88%1.81%
1 Month Performance28.88%-4.84%-8.63%-6.98%
1 Year Performance-1.56%14.47%11.46%1.29%

Nephros Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
NEPH
Nephros
1.7297 of 5 stars
$1.96
+3.7%
$5.00
+155.2%
-1.6%$20.77M$14.16M-21.7730
MBOT
Microbot Medical
1.9513 of 5 stars
$2.28
+2.2%
$9.00
+294.7%
+176.7%$79.22MN/A-2.8520High Trading Volume
SRTS
Sensus Healthcare
2.4942 of 5 stars
$4.79
+3.9%
$13.00
+171.4%
+41.2%$79.01M$41.81M11.9840Gap Down
NSPR
InspireMD
2.2861 of 5 stars
$2.60
+1.6%
$4.75
+82.7%
+17.2%$77.19M$7.01M-3.4750High Trading Volume
FONR
FONAR
0.9692 of 5 stars
$12.07
-0.2%
N/A-25.8%$74.87M$101.57M10.50480Short Interest ↑
Negative News
MLSS
Milestone Scientific
2.0355 of 5 stars
$0.91
+1.6%
$1.25
+36.8%
+58.0%$71.19M$8.88M-13.0630Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
Gap Down
ZYXI
Zynex
3.0388 of 5 stars
$2.20
+0.9%
$10.25
+365.9%
-81.9%$66.50M$192.35M14.67770Analyst Forecast
Gap Down
INO
Inovio Pharmaceuticals
3.263 of 5 stars
$1.77
+9.9%
$12.20
+589.3%
-84.3%$64.90M$217,756.00-0.44320Analyst Upgrade
Short Interest ↑
ICCM
IceCure Medical
1.6225 of 5 stars
$1.16
+3.1%
$2.50
+115.5%
-12.8%$64.38M$3.29M-4.0060Negative News
CTSO
Cytosorbents
1.7749 of 5 stars
$0.99
+1.9%
$4.67
+371.4%
+30.4%$61.88M$35.59M-2.75220Gap Down
VANI
Vivani Medical
2.815 of 5 stars
$1.04
+2.0%
$4.00
+284.6%
-42.4%$61.60MN/A-2.3120Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↑
Gap Up

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This page (NASDAQ:NEPH) was last updated on 4/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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