SENS vs. MLAB, HURC, CLIR, SYPR, SMIT, DHR, ROP, AME, FTV, and KEYS
Should you be buying Senseonics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Senseonics include Mesa Laboratories (MLAB), Hurco Companies (HURC), ClearSign Technologies (CLIR), Sypris Solutions (SYPR), Schmitt Industries (SMIT), Danaher (DHR), Roper Technologies (ROP), AMETEK (AME), Fortive (FTV), and Keysight Technologies (KEYS). These companies are all part of the "process control instruments" industry.
Senseonics (NYSE:SENS) and Mesa Laboratories (NASDAQ:MLAB) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation and earnings.
Mesa Laboratories received 216 more outperform votes than Senseonics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.82% of users gave Mesa Laboratories an outperform vote while only 12.50% of users gave Senseonics an outperform vote.
Senseonics has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mesa Laboratories has a beta of 0.82, suggesting that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Mesa Laboratories had 5 more articles in the media than Senseonics. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Mesa Laboratories and 2 mentions for Senseonics. Mesa Laboratories' average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Senseonics' score of 0.20 indicating that Mesa Laboratories is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Senseonics presently has a consensus target price of $1.25, indicating a potential upside of 190.70%. Mesa Laboratories has a consensus target price of $130.00, indicating a potential upside of 35.84%. Given Senseonics' higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Senseonics is more favorable than Mesa Laboratories.
Mesa Laboratories has a net margin of 0.45% compared to Senseonics' net margin of -346.38%. Mesa Laboratories' return on equity of 7.41% beat Senseonics' return on equity.
12.4% of Senseonics shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.6% of Mesa Laboratories shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.9% of Senseonics shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.2% of Mesa Laboratories shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Mesa Laboratories has higher revenue and earnings than Senseonics. Senseonics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mesa Laboratories, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Mesa Laboratories beats Senseonics on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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