SENS vs. MLAB, HURC, SYPR, CLIR, 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), Sypris Solutions (SYPR), ClearSign Technologies (CLIR), 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 superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, earnings and risk.
Senseonics has a beta of 0.82, suggesting that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mesa Laboratories has a beta of 0.86, suggesting that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Senseonics has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Mesa Laboratories. 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.
In the previous week, Mesa Laboratories had 3 more articles in the media than Senseonics. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Mesa Laboratories and 2 mentions for Senseonics. Senseonics' average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat Mesa Laboratories' score of -0.47 indicating that Senseonics is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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 11.11% of users gave Senseonics an outperform vote.
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, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Mesa Laboratories has a net margin of -117.61% compared to Senseonics' net margin of -346.38%. Mesa Laboratories' return on equity of 10.10% beat Senseonics' return on equity.
Senseonics currently has a consensus target price of $1.25, indicating a potential upside of 208.64%. Mesa Laboratories has a consensus target price of $130.00, indicating a potential upside of 30.07%. Given Senseonics' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Senseonics is more favorable than Mesa Laboratories.
Summary
Mesa Laboratories beats Senseonics on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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