PODD vs. ABMD, PEN, IRTC, IDXX, RMD, STE, BAX, HOLX, TFX, and GMED
Should you be buying Insulet stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Insulet include Abiomed (ABMD), Penumbra (PEN), iRhythm Technologies (IRTC), IDEXX Laboratories (IDXX), ResMed (RMD), STERIS (STE), Baxter International (BAX), Hologic (HOLX), Teleflex (TFX), and Globus Medical (GMED). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Abiomed (NASDAQ:ABMD) and Insulet (NASDAQ:PODD) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, institutional ownership and analyst recommendations.
94.5% of Abiomed shares are held by institutional investors. 2.5% of Abiomed shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Insulet shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Insulet received 178 more outperform votes than Abiomed when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.08% of users gave Insulet an outperform vote while only 61.99% of users gave Abiomed an outperform vote.
Insulet has higher revenue and earnings than Abiomed. Insulet is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Abiomed, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Abiomed has a net margin of 24.84% compared to Abiomed's net margin of 13.14%. Abiomed's return on equity of 34.06% beat Insulet's return on equity.
In the previous week, Insulet had 14 more articles in the media than Abiomed. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Insulet and 0 mentions for Abiomed. Abiomed's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Insulet's score of 0.44 indicating that Insulet is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Insulet has a consensus target price of $239.18, indicating a potential upside of 35.93%. Given Abiomed's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Insulet is more favorable than Abiomed.
Abiomed has a beta of 1.4, meaning that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Insulet has a beta of 1, meaning that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Summary
Insulet beats Abiomed on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding PODD and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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