APT vs. INGN, LAKE, CLGN, NTRB, MLSS, COCH, RBOT, LFWD, POAI, and HSCS
Should you be buying Alpha Pro Tech stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alpha Pro Tech include Inogen (INGN), Lakeland Industries (LAKE), CollPlant Biotechnologies (CLGN), Nutriband (NTRB), Milestone Scientific (MLSS), Envoy Medical (COCH), Vicarious Surgical (RBOT), ReWalk Robotics (LFWD), Predictive Oncology (POAI), and Heart Test Laboratories (HSCS). These companies are all part of the "surgical appliances & supplies" industry.
Alpha Pro Tech (NYSE:APT) and Inogen (NASDAQ:INGN) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends and risk.
Alpha Pro Tech has a net margin of 6.92% compared to Inogen's net margin of -30.07%. Alpha Pro Tech's return on equity of 6.86% beat Inogen's return on equity.
Alpha Pro Tech has a beta of -0.67, suggesting that its share price is 167% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Inogen has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
22.7% of Alpha Pro Tech shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.9% of Inogen shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.6% of Alpha Pro Tech shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Inogen shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Alpha Pro Tech has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Inogen. Inogen is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alpha Pro Tech, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Alpha Pro Tech and Alpha Pro Tech both had 2 articles in the media. Inogen's average media sentiment score of 1.43 beat Alpha Pro Tech's score of 0.18 indicating that Inogen is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Inogen received 374 more outperform votes than Alpha Pro Tech when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Alpha Pro Tech an outperform vote while only 70.44% of users gave Inogen an outperform vote.
Inogen has a consensus target price of $7.00, indicating a potential downside of 15.66%. Given Inogen's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Inogen is more favorable than Alpha Pro Tech.
Summary
Alpha Pro Tech beats Inogen on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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