OSUR vs. TCMD, CRY, KIDS, ATRI, ANIK, CERS, UTMD, WST, ALGN, and COO
Should you be buying OraSure Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of OraSure Technologies include Tactile Systems Technology (TCMD), CryoLife (CRY), OrthoPediatrics (KIDS), Atrion (ATRI), Anika Therapeutics (ANIK), Cerus (CERS), Utah Medical Products (UTMD), West Pharmaceutical Services (WST), Align Technology (ALGN), and Cooper Companies (COO). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Tactile Systems Technology (NASDAQ:TCMD) and OraSure Technologies (NASDAQ:OSUR) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.
OraSure Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Tactile Systems Technology. Tactile Systems Technology is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than OraSure Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Tactile Systems Technology had 1 more articles in the media than OraSure Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Tactile Systems Technology and 1 mentions for OraSure Technologies. Tactile Systems Technology's average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat OraSure Technologies' score of 1.10 indicating that OraSure Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
OraSure Technologies received 187 more outperform votes than Tactile Systems Technology when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.72% of users gave OraSure Technologies an outperform vote while only 69.56% of users gave Tactile Systems Technology an outperform vote.
83.4% of Tactile Systems Technology shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.5% of OraSure Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Tactile Systems Technology shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of OraSure Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Tactile Systems Technology has a net margin of 10.19% compared to Tactile Systems Technology's net margin of 7.50%. OraSure Technologies' return on equity of 15.88% beat Tactile Systems Technology's return on equity.
Tactile Systems Technology currently has a consensus target price of $30.00, suggesting a potential upside of 135.66%. OraSure Technologies has a consensus target price of $6.63, suggesting a potential upside of 40.06%. Given OraSure Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Tactile Systems Technology is more favorable than OraSure Technologies.
Tactile Systems Technology has a beta of 1.23, indicating that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, OraSure Technologies has a beta of 0.23, indicating that its share price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Tactile Systems Technology beats OraSure Technologies on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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