APYX vs. ICAD, CODX, TTOO, PYPD, TELA, NPCE, DCTH, RCEL, TLSI, and OBIO
Should you be buying Apyx Medical stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Apyx Medical include iCAD (ICAD), Co-Diagnostics (CODX), T2 Biosystems (TTOO), PolyPid (PYPD), TELA Bio (TELA), NeuroPace (NPCE), Delcath Systems (DCTH), AVITA Medical (RCEL), TriSalus Life Sciences (TLSI), and Orchestra BioMed (OBIO). These companies are all part of the "surgical & medical instruments" industry.
Apyx Medical (NASDAQ:APYX) and iCAD (NASDAQ:ICAD) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Apyx Medical currently has a consensus price target of $6.17, indicating a potential upside of 273.74%. iCAD has a consensus price target of $5.00, indicating a potential upside of 244.83%. Given Apyx Medical's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Apyx Medical is more favorable than iCAD.
In the previous week, Apyx Medical had 1 more articles in the media than iCAD. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Apyx Medical and 3 mentions for iCAD. Apyx Medical's average media sentiment score of 1.33 beat iCAD's score of 0.79 indicating that Apyx Medical is being referred to more favorably in the media.
iCAD has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Apyx Medical. iCAD is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Apyx Medical, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
iCAD has a net margin of -15.20% compared to Apyx Medical's net margin of -45.20%. iCAD's return on equity of -14.00% beat Apyx Medical's return on equity.
55.3% of Apyx Medical shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.6% of iCAD shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.1% of Apyx Medical shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.0% of iCAD shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Apyx Medical has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, iCAD has a beta of 1.36, indicating that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
iCAD received 151 more outperform votes than Apyx Medical when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.81% of users gave iCAD an outperform vote while only 61.60% of users gave Apyx Medical an outperform vote.
Summary
iCAD beats Apyx Medical on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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