LFMD vs. AUNA, WGS, ZJYL, PACB, ALEC, STTK, ANL, OCS, PROK, and TVTX
Should you be buying LifeMD stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LifeMD include Auna (AUNA), GeneDx (WGS), Jin Medical International (ZJYL), Pacific Biosciences of California (PACB), Alector (ALEC), Shattuck Labs (STTK), Adlai Nortye (ANL), Oculis (OCS), ProKidney (PROK), and Travere Therapeutics (TVTX). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Auna (NYSE:AUNA) and LifeMD (NASDAQ:LFMD) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Auna presently has a consensus target price of $14.15, indicating a potential upside of 62.27%. LifeMD has a consensus target price of $11.60, indicating a potential upside of 49.29%. Given LifeMD's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Auna is more favorable than LifeMD.
35.5% of LifeMD shares are owned by institutional investors. 18.9% of LifeMD 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.
LifeMD received 22 more outperform votes than Auna when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Auna an outperform vote while only 70.27% of users gave LifeMD an outperform vote.
In the previous week, LifeMD had 1 more articles in the media than Auna. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for LifeMD and 3 mentions for Auna. Auna's average media sentiment score of 0.44 beat LifeMD's score of 0.20 indicating that LifeMD is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Auna has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Auna's net margin of -14.75%.
Auna has higher earnings, but lower revenue than LifeMD.
Summary
LifeMD beats Auna on 7 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
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