CTEC vs. AMS, TSTL, BVC, SPEC, AKR, CNSL, ODX, SN, DPH, and HIK
Should you be buying ConvaTec Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ConvaTec Group include Advanced Medical Solutions Group (AMS), Tristel (TSTL), BATM Advanced Communications (BVC), INSPECS Group (SPEC), Akers Biosciences (AKR), Cambridge Nutritional Sciences (CNSL), Omega Diagnostics Group (ODX), Smith & Nephew (SN), Dechra Pharmaceuticals (DPH), and Hikma Pharmaceuticals (HIK). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Advanced Medical Solutions Group (LON:AMS) and ConvaTec Group (LON:CTEC) are both medical companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and earnings.
ConvaTec Group has higher revenue and earnings than Advanced Medical Solutions Group. Advanced Medical Solutions Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ConvaTec Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Advanced Medical Solutions Group presently has a consensus target price of GBX 300, indicating a potential upside of 38.25%. ConvaTec Group has a consensus target price of GBX 307.17, indicating a potential upside of 23.56%. Given ConvaTec Group's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Advanced Medical Solutions Group is more favorable than ConvaTec Group.
In the previous week, Advanced Medical Solutions Group had 1 more articles in the media than ConvaTec Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Advanced Medical Solutions Group and 1 mentions for ConvaTec Group. Advanced Medical Solutions Group's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat ConvaTec Group's score of 0.36 indicating that ConvaTec Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Advanced Medical Solutions Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. ConvaTec Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Advanced Medical Solutions Group pays out 2,857.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. ConvaTec Group pays out 10,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Advanced Medical Solutions Group has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ConvaTec Group has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
ConvaTec Group received 188 more outperform votes than Advanced Medical Solutions Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.54% of users gave ConvaTec Group an outperform vote while only 49.70% of users gave Advanced Medical Solutions Group an outperform vote.
65.7% of Advanced Medical Solutions Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.2% of ConvaTec Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of Advanced Medical Solutions Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.0% of ConvaTec Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Advanced Medical Solutions Group has a net margin of 12.59% compared to Advanced Medical Solutions Group's net margin of 6.08%. Advanced Medical Solutions Group's return on equity of 7.89% beat ConvaTec Group's return on equity.
Summary
ConvaTec Group beats Advanced Medical Solutions Group on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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