RVP vs. MLSS, EDAP, ICAD, NTRB, NSPR, LUCD, GUTS, ICCM, VANI, and APT
Should you be buying Retractable Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Retractable Technologies include Milestone Scientific (MLSS), Edap Tms (EDAP), iCAD (ICAD), Nutriband (NTRB), InspireMD (NSPR), Lucid Diagnostics (LUCD), Fractyl Health (GUTS), IceCure Medical (ICCM), Vivani Medical (VANI), and Alpha Pro Tech (APT). These companies are all part of the "medical equipment" industry.
Retractable Technologies vs.
Milestone Scientific (NYSE:MLSS) and Retractable Technologies (NYSE:RVP) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Milestone Scientific has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Retractable Technologies has a beta of 1.96, meaning that its share price is 96% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Milestone Scientific currently has a consensus target price of $1.25, indicating a potential upside of 20.19%. Given Milestone Scientific's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Milestone Scientific is more favorable than Retractable Technologies.
Retractable Technologies has a net margin of -41.11% compared to Milestone Scientific's net margin of -52.01%. Retractable Technologies' return on equity of -17.15% beat Milestone Scientific's return on equity.
5.8% of Milestone Scientific shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.6% of Retractable Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 24.8% of Milestone Scientific shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 55.0% of Retractable Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Milestone Scientific has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Retractable Technologies. Milestone Scientific is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Retractable Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Retractable Technologies had 2 more articles in the media than Milestone Scientific. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Retractable Technologies and 1 mentions for Milestone Scientific. Retractable Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Milestone Scientific's score of 0.00 indicating that Retractable Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Milestone Scientific received 2 more outperform votes than Retractable Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 2.41% of users gave Milestone Scientific an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Retractable Technologies an outperform vote.
Summary
Retractable Technologies beats Milestone Scientific on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:RVP) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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