SRDX vs. SIBN, ANIK, XENT, ATRS, IART, ATEC, ATRC, OFIX, ANGO, and ARAY
Should you be buying Surmodics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Surmodics include SI-BONE (SIBN), Anika Therapeutics (ANIK), Intersect ENT (XENT), Antares Pharma (ATRS), Integra LifeSciences (IART), Alphatec (ATEC), AtriCure (ATRC), Orthofix Medical (OFIX), AngioDynamics (ANGO), and Accuray (ARAY). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Surmodics (NASDAQ:SRDX) and SI-BONE (NASDAQ:SIBN) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, risk, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations and valuation.
96.6% of Surmodics shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.1% of SI-BONE shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.9% of Surmodics shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.4% of SI-BONE shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Surmodics has higher revenue and earnings than SI-BONE. SI-BONE is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Surmodics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Surmodics had 28 more articles in the media than SI-BONE. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Surmodics and 1 mentions for SI-BONE. SI-BONE's average media sentiment score of 1.88 beat Surmodics' score of 0.34 indicating that SI-BONE is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Surmodics has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SI-BONE has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Surmodics received 177 more outperform votes than SI-BONE when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.23% of users gave SI-BONE an outperform vote while only 66.47% of users gave Surmodics an outperform vote.
Surmodics has a net margin of 9.44% compared to SI-BONE's net margin of -29.93%. Surmodics' return on equity of 13.30% beat SI-BONE's return on equity.
Surmodics presently has a consensus price target of $50.00, indicating a potential upside of 18.88%. SI-BONE has a consensus price target of $27.29, indicating a potential upside of 94.20%. Given SI-BONE's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe SI-BONE is more favorable than Surmodics.
Summary
Surmodics beats SI-BONE on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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