Eargo (NASDAQ:EAR) and Surgalign (NASDAQ:SRGA) 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, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, risk and earnings.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
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69.7% of Eargo shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.6% of Surgalign shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.0% of Surgalign shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Eargo and Surgalign, as provided by MarketBeat.
Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Eargo 0 0 4 0 3.00
Surgalign 0 0 5 0 3.00
Eargo currently has a consensus price target of $45.33, indicating a potential upside of 102.20%. Surgalign has a consensus price target of $4.00, indicating a potential upside of 158.06%. Given Surgalign’s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Surgalign is more favorable than Eargo.
Best Medical Stocks To Watch Right Now: 111, Inc.(YI)
111, Inc. operates an integrated online and offline platform in the healthcare market in the People's Republic of China. It operates through two segments, B2B and B2C. The company sells medical and wellness products through online retail, and wholesale and retail pharmacies, as well as provides value-added services, such as online consultation services and e-prescription services to consumers. Its product portfolio comprises prescription and over-the counter drugs, such as western and traditional Chinese medicinal drugs; nutritional supplements, such as vitamins and dietary products; contact lenses; medical supplies and devices, including bandages and thermometers; and personal care products, such as skin care, birth control, and sexual wellness products; and baby products. The company also operates an online marketplace where third-party sellers can directly sell to pharmacies; provides online loan application services to the clients of 1 Drug Mall, including pharmacies and wholesalers; and digital contract sales organization and data services. As of December 31, 2020, it operated 13 offline retail pharmacies under the Yi Hao Pharmacy brand name in Guangzhou, Wuhan, Tianjin, and Kunshan. In addition, the company offers warehousing, logistics, procurement, research and development, and consulting services; and software development and information technology support services. It serves pharmacies, pharmaceutical companies and distributors, medical professionals, and insurance companies. 111, Inc. has strategic partnerships with Bayer Healthcare Co. Ltd.; BeiGene, Ltd.; and Jianming Pharmaceutical Group. The company was formerly known as New Peak Group and changed its name to 111, Inc. in April 2018. 111, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Shanghai, the People's Republic of China.
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111 (NASDAQ:YI) and MedAvail (NASDAQ:MDVL) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends and risk.
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111 Inc. (NYSE: YI) raised $99 million by selling 7.1 million shares in a downsized offering at $14, the low end of the expected range. Shares dropped 7% on the first trading day but closed the week flat.
Best Medical Stocks To Watch Right Now: BankFinancial Corporation(BFIN)
BankFinancial Corporation operates as the holding company for BankFinancial, F.S.B., which provides commercial, family, and personal banking services in Illinois. It accepts deposit accounts, such as savings accounts, NOW accounts, checking accounts, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, and IRAs and other qualified plan accounts. The company?s loan portfolio consists of investment and business loans, including multi-family, nonresidential real estate, commercial, construction and land loans, and commercial leases, as well as one-to-four family residential mortgage loans comprising home equity loans, lines of credit, and other second mortgage loans. It also provides financial products and services consisting of cash management, funds transfers, bill payment and other online banking transactions, automated teller machines, safe deposit boxes, wealth management, and general insurance agency services. In addition, the company offers investment, financial planning, and other wealth management services; and sells life insurance, fixed annuities, property and casualty insurance, and other insurance products on an agency basis. It provides its products and services through banking offices and an Internet Branch. As of December 31, 2009, it operated 18 full-service banking offices and 3 express branch facilities in Cook, DuPage, Lake, and Will Counties, Illinois. The company was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in Burr Ridge, Illinois.
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BankFinancial (NASDAQ:BFIN) and Territorial Bancorp (NASDAQ:TBNK) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, earnings and valuation.
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Best Medical Stocks To Watch Right Now: Americold Realty Trust(COLD)
Americold is the world's largest publicly traded REIT focused on the ownership, operation, acquisition and development of temperature-controlled warehouses. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Americold owns and operates 185 temperature-controlled warehouses, with over 1 billion refrigerated cubic feet of storage, in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Argentina. Americold's facilities are an integral component of the supply chain connecting food producers, processors, distributors and retailers to consumers.
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Brasada Capital Management LP bought a new position in AmeriCold Realty Trust (NYSE:COLD) in the 1st quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor bought 19,700 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $370,000.
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Best Medical Stocks To Watch Right Now: DHI Group, Inc.(DHX)
DHI Group, Inc., formerly Dice Holdings, Inc., incorporated on June 28, 2005, is a provider of specialized Websites focused on select professional communities. The Company’s segments include Tech & Clearance, Finance, Energy, Healthcare and Hospitality. The Company’s online communities enable professionals to manage their careers by finding relevant job opportunities and by building their knowledge through original and community-shared content. The Company operates career management services for technology, engineering, financial services, healthcare, hospitality and security-cleared professionals, as well as career management, and information and data services for the energy industry.
The Company’s Tech & Clearance segment consists of the Dice, ClearanceJobs and Dice Europe services, as well as career fairs. The Finance segment includes the eFinancialCareers service around the world. The Energy segment includes the Rigzone service, OilCareers service and career fairs. The Healthcare segment includes Health eCareers and BioSpace services. The Hospitality segment includes Hcareers.
The Company’s Dice has job postings, including both technology and non-technology companies across various industries, such as positions for software engineers, big data professionals, systems administrators, database specialists, project managers, and a range of other technology and engineering professionals. Dice has approximately 77,000 job postings. ClearanceJobs is the Internet-based career network dedicated to matching security-cleared professionals with the hiring companies searching for employees. Its eFinancialCareers is the financial services careers Website, operating Websites in over four languages across the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East and North America. Rigzone is a Website dedicated to delivering online content, data and career services in the oil and gas industry in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Hcareers is a provider of job postings for the hotel, restaurant, food service, casino and assisted living industries. BioSpace is a resource for biotechnology careers and news. Health eCareers operates a Website dedicated to providing career services across various disciplines and specialties within the healthcare industry, including physicians, nurses and a spectrum of allied health professions. BrightMatter focuses on recruitment products and services that are applicable across the Company’s brands.
The Company competes with LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Google, CareerBuilder, Monster Worldwide, StepStone, Seek, SimplyHired, Recruit, Entelo, Gild, ZipRecruiter, Craigslist, Glassdoor, FT.com, Doximity, Upwork, JobServe, Stack Overflow, Avature, SmashFly, Digg.com and Reddit.com.
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DHX Media Ltd. (TSE:DHX) has earned an average recommendation of “Hold” from the eight brokerages that are currently covering the firm, MarketBeat.com reports. Four research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and one has given a buy rating to the company. The average twelve-month price objective among brokerages that have covered the stock in the last year is C$2.73.
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TechTarget (NASDAQ:TTGT) and DHI Group (NYSE:DHX) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends and profitability.
Best Medical Stocks To Watch Right Now: Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores S.A.(AVAL)
We are Colombia’s largest banking group based on total assets. As of December 31, 2015 we were one of the most profitable among our principal competitors in the Colombian market based on an ROAE and the most profitable in terms of ROAA, based on aggregate figures. We are also the largest banking group in Central America based on total assets as of December 31, 2015. We provide a comprehensive range of financial services and products
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ranging from traditional banking services, such as making loans and taking deposits, to pension and severance fund management.
Colombian operations
Our operations in Colombia currently consist of four commercial banks (Banco de Bogotá, Banco de Occidente, Banco Popular and Banco AV Villas), the largest pension and severance fund manager (Porvenir) and the largest merchant bank (Corficolombiana). Advisors’ Opinion:
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GRUPO AVAL ACCI/S (NYSE:AVAL) announced a special dividend on Wednesday, September 19th, Wall Street Journal reports. Stockholders of record on Monday, December 31st will be given a dividend of 0.0265 per share by the bank on Thursday, January 10th. This represents a dividend yield of 4.1%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, December 28th.
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News articles about GRUPO AVAL ACCI/S (NYSE:AVAL) have trended somewhat positive on Friday, according to Accern Sentiment Analysis. The research group ranks the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than twenty million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. GRUPO AVAL ACCI/S earned a coverage optimism score of 0.16 on Accern’s scale. Accern also gave media headlines about the bank an impact score of 46.1009653867296 out of 100, meaning that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company’s share price in the next several days.
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GRUPO AVAL ACCI/S (NYSE: AVAL) and ERSTE Grp Bk A/S (OTCMKTS:EBKDY) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings, profitability, risk and institutional ownership.
Best Medical Stocks To Watch Right Now: Olympic Steel Inc.(ZEUS)
Olympic Steel, Inc. engages in the processing and distribution of metal products in the United States. It offers flat products and tubular and pipe products, including processed carbon, coated, aluminum and stainless flat-rolled sheet, coil, and plate; and metal tubing, pipe, bar, valves, and fittings and fabricate pressure parts. The company also provides various processing services comprising cutting-to-length, slitting, sawing, and shearing; and value-added processes of blanking, tempering, plate burning, laser cutting, precision machining, welding, fabricating, bending, and painting to process metal to specified lengths, widths, and shapes. It serves metal consuming industries, such as manufacturers and fabricators of transportation and material handling equipment, construction and farm machinery, storage tanks, environmental and energy generation equipment, automobiles, food service and electrical equipment, and military vehicles and equipment, as well as general and plate fabricators and metals service centers through direct sales force. Olympic Steel, Inc. was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Bedford Heights, Ohio.
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Olympic Steel (NASDAQ:ZEUS) was downgraded by investment analysts at ValuEngine from a “sell” rating to a “strong sell” rating in a research report issued to clients and investors on Friday.
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Olympic Steel, Inc. (NASDAQ:ZEUS) – Jefferies Financial Group boosted their Q2 2018 earnings per share (EPS) estimates for Olympic Steel in a report released on Tuesday, July 10th. Jefferies Financial Group analyst S. Rosenfeld now anticipates that the basic materials company will earn $1.01 per share for the quarter, up from their previous forecast of $0.90. Jefferies Financial Group also issued estimates for Olympic Steel’s Q3 2018 earnings at $0.50 EPS, Q4 2018 earnings at $0.09 EPS, FY2018 earnings at $2.29 EPS and FY2019 earnings at $2.37 EPS.
