LFMD vs. SMED, AUNA, AIRS, SHLT, PTWO, TOI, MRM, NVOS, OTRK, and CANOQ
Should you be buying LifeMD stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LifeMD include Sharps Compliance (SMED), Auna (AUNA), AirSculpt Technologies (AIRS), SHL Telemedicine (SHLT), Pono Capital Two (PTWO), Oncology Institute (TOI), MEDIROM Healthcare Technologies (MRM), Novo Integrated Sciences (NVOS), Ontrak (OTRK), and Cano Health (CANOQ).
LifeMD (NASDAQ:LFMD) and Sharps Compliance (NASDAQ:SMED) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, valuation and institutional ownership.
LifeMD presently has a consensus target price of $12.60, suggesting a potential upside of 52.73%. Given LifeMD's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe LifeMD is more favorable than Sharps Compliance.
Sharps Compliance received 214 more outperform votes than LifeMD when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.05% of users gave LifeMD an outperform vote while only 51.83% of users gave Sharps Compliance an outperform vote.
In the previous week, LifeMD had 3 more articles in the media than Sharps Compliance. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for LifeMD and 1 mentions for Sharps Compliance. LifeMD's average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat Sharps Compliance's score of 0.00 indicating that LifeMD is being referred to more favorably in the media.
LifeMD has a beta of 1.38, meaning that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sharps Compliance has a beta of 1.28, meaning that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sharps Compliance has a net margin of 7.88% compared to LifeMD's net margin of -14.75%. Sharps Compliance's return on equity of 5.48% beat LifeMD's return on equity.
35.5% of LifeMD shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.1% of Sharps Compliance shares are held by institutional investors. 18.9% of LifeMD shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.8% of Sharps Compliance shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Sharps Compliance has lower revenue, but higher earnings than LifeMD. LifeMD is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sharps Compliance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
LifeMD beats Sharps Compliance on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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