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MLSS vs. SGHT, TLSI, INGN, PROF, KRMD, LNSR, ELMD, PDEX, PTHL, and RCEL

Should you be buying Milestone Scientific stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Milestone Scientific include Sight Sciences (SGHT), TriSalus Life Sciences (TLSI), Inogen (INGN), Profound Medical (PROF), KORU Medical Systems (KRMD), LENSAR (LNSR), Electromed (ELMD), Pro-Dex (PDEX), Pheton (PTHL), and Avita Medical (RCEL). These companies are all part of the "medical equipment" industry.

Milestone Scientific vs. Its Competitors

Sight Sciences (NASDAQ:SGHT) and Milestone Scientific (NYSE:MLSS) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation and earnings.

Milestone Scientific has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Sight Sciences. Milestone Scientific is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sight Sciences, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Sight Sciences$79.87M2.30-$51.51M-$0.98-3.63
Milestone Scientific$8.61M5.42-$6.93M-$0.07-8.50

Milestone Scientific has a net margin of -52.01% compared to Sight Sciences' net margin of -63.24%. Sight Sciences' return on equity of -54.62% beat Milestone Scientific's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Sight Sciences-63.24% -54.62% -34.92%
Milestone Scientific -52.01%-60.26%-40.23%

55.5% of Sight Sciences shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.8% of Milestone Scientific shares are owned by institutional investors. 30.9% of Sight Sciences shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 24.8% of Milestone Scientific shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Sight Sciences has a beta of 2.47, suggesting that its stock price is 147% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Milestone Scientific has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Sight Sciences presently has a consensus price target of $3.93, indicating a potential upside of 10.49%. Milestone Scientific has a consensus price target of $1.25, indicating a potential upside of 110.08%. Given Milestone Scientific's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Milestone Scientific is more favorable than Sight Sciences.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Sight Sciences
0 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.29
Milestone Scientific
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

In the previous week, Sight Sciences had 4 more articles in the media than Milestone Scientific. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Sight Sciences and 1 mentions for Milestone Scientific. Sight Sciences' average media sentiment score of 0.10 beat Milestone Scientific's score of -0.50 indicating that Sight Sciences is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Sight Sciences Neutral
Milestone Scientific Negative

Summary

Sight Sciences beats Milestone Scientific on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE 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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MLSS vs. The Competition

MetricMilestone ScientificSurgical appliances & supplies IndustryMedical SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$46.69M$26.87M$5.70B$21.15B
Dividend YieldN/AN/A4.59%3.58%
P/E Ratio-8.5012.9227.9027.76
Price / Sales5.422.17442.1958.69
Price / CashN/A12.8036.5523.00
Price / Book5.412.108.634.67
Net Income-$6.93M-$5.31M$3.24B$993.85M
7 Day Performance-4.05%-1.49%3.22%1.16%
1 Month Performance-24.69%-8.51%10.72%4.99%
1 Year Performance-38.72%-18.96%34.94%12.54%

Milestone Scientific Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MLSS
Milestone Scientific
2.9482 of 5 stars
$0.60
-10.1%
$1.25
+110.1%
-38.1%$46.69M$8.61M-8.5030High Trading Volume
SGHT
Sight Sciences
1.5946 of 5 stars
$3.43
-2.0%
$3.93
+14.7%
-54.1%$180.93M$79.87M-3.50210Upcoming Earnings
TLSI
TriSalus Life Sciences
2.257 of 5 stars
$4.57
-0.7%
$10.75
+135.2%
-17.5%$174.06M$29.43M-4.08106News Coverage
INGN
Inogen
4.1902 of 5 stars
$6.29
-0.9%
$11.00
+74.9%
-30.1%$170.73M$335.70M-5.471,030
PROF
Profound Medical
2.1524 of 5 stars
$5.55
-1.6%
$11.00
+98.2%
-46.1%$169.50M$10.68M-4.55150News Coverage
KRMD
KORU Medical Systems
2.1414 of 5 stars
$3.46
+2.7%
$4.50
+30.1%
+36.9%$155.49M$33.65M-31.4580
LNSR
LENSAR
1.3622 of 5 stars
$13.32
+1.7%
$15.00
+12.6%
+146.9%$154.48M$53.49M-2.75110Positive News
ELMD
Electromed
1.1466 of 5 stars
$18.13
-0.5%
$38.00
+109.6%
+22.6%$152.04M$61.44M24.17160News Coverage
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Analyst Revision
PDEX
Pro-Dex
1.9323 of 5 stars
$46.66
+1.0%
$56.00
+20.0%
+160.8%$150.63M$64.12M16.66140
PTHL
Pheton
N/A$22.61
+1.8%
N/AN/A$146.25M$450K0.0011Gap Up
High Trading Volume
RCEL
Avita Medical
0.929 of 5 stars
$5.21
+0.8%
$16.50
+216.7%
-39.7%$136.67M$64.25M-2.38130

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This page (NYSE:MLSS) was last updated on 7/24/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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