BLCO vs. COO, RXST, STAA, WRBY, EYE, LUCY, ALC, ALGN, TEVA, and ALNY
Should you be buying Bausch + Lomb stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bausch + Lomb include Cooper Companies (COO), RxSight (RXST), STAAR Surgical (STAA), Warby Parker (WRBY), National Vision (EYE), Innovative Eyewear (LUCY), Alcon (ALC), Align Technology (ALGN), Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (TEVA), and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (ALNY). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Cooper Companies (NASDAQ:COO) and Bausch + Lomb (NYSE:BLCO) are both medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Cooper Companies has a net margin of 9.11% compared to Cooper Companies' net margin of -7.81%. Bausch + Lomb's return on equity of 8.94% beat Cooper Companies' return on equity.
Cooper Companies received 585 more outperform votes than Bausch + Lomb when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.56% of users gave Cooper Companies an outperform vote while only 38.71% of users gave Bausch + Lomb an outperform vote.
24.4% of Cooper Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.1% of Bausch + Lomb shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of Cooper Companies shares are owned by 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.
Cooper Companies currently has a consensus price target of $111.42, indicating a potential upside of 18.14%. Bausch + Lomb has a consensus price target of $19.45, indicating a potential upside of 26.82%. Given Cooper Companies' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Bausch + Lomb is more favorable than Cooper Companies.
In the previous week, Cooper Companies had 18 more articles in the media than Bausch + Lomb. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Cooper Companies and 6 mentions for Bausch + Lomb. Cooper Companies' average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Bausch + Lomb's score of 0.67 indicating that Bausch + Lomb is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Cooper Companies has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bausch + Lomb has a beta of 0.47, suggesting that its stock price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Cooper Companies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Bausch + Lomb. Bausch + Lomb is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cooper Companies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Cooper Companies beats Bausch + Lomb on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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