QDEL vs. MMSI, HAE, ICUI, XRAY, NEOG, STAA, CERS, OSUR, ANIK, and UTMD
Should you be buying QuidelOrtho stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of QuidelOrtho include Merit Medical Systems (MMSI), Haemonetics (HAE), ICU Medical (ICUI), DENTSPLY SIRONA (XRAY), Neogen (NEOG), 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.
QuidelOrtho vs.
QuidelOrtho (NASDAQ:QDEL) and Merit Medical Systems (NASDAQ:MMSI) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
QuidelOrtho presently has a consensus target price of $53.43, suggesting a potential upside of 27.96%. Merit Medical Systems has a consensus target price of $107.70, suggesting a potential upside of 4.66%. Given QuidelOrtho's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe QuidelOrtho is more favorable than Merit Medical Systems.
In the previous week, Merit Medical Systems had 9 more articles in the media than QuidelOrtho. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Merit Medical Systems and 4 mentions for QuidelOrtho. Merit Medical Systems' average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat QuidelOrtho's score of 0.56 indicating that Merit Medical Systems is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
99.0% of QuidelOrtho shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.7% of Merit Medical Systems shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of QuidelOrtho 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, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
QuidelOrtho received 7 more outperform votes than Merit Medical Systems when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.48% of users gave Merit Medical Systems an outperform vote while only 67.17% of users gave QuidelOrtho an outperform vote.
Merit Medical Systems has lower revenue, but higher earnings than QuidelOrtho. QuidelOrtho 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.
QuidelOrtho has a beta of 0.08, indicating that its stock price is 92% less 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.
Merit Medical Systems has a net margin of 9.05% compared to QuidelOrtho's net margin of -66.25%. Merit Medical Systems' return on equity of 15.61% beat QuidelOrtho's return on equity.
Summary
Merit Medical Systems beats QuidelOrtho on 16 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:QDEL) was last updated on 1/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
