Beauty Health (NASDAQ:SKIN – Get Free Report) and Nemaura Medical (NASDAQ:NMRD – Get Free Report) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Beauty Health and Nemaura Medical”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Beauty Health | $398.00 million | 0.50 | -$100.12 million | ($0.42) | -3.83 |
| Nemaura Medical | $3,017.00 | 0.00 | -$14.14 million | ($0.39) | N/A |
Nemaura Medical has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Beauty Health. Beauty Health is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nemaura Medical, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Recommendations
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Beauty Health | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Nemaura Medical | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
Beauty Health currently has a consensus target price of $2.55, suggesting a potential upside of 58.39%. Given Beauty Health’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Beauty Health is more favorable than Nemaura Medical.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
93.3% of Beauty Health shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.4% of Nemaura Medical shares are owned by institutional investors. 41.0% of Beauty Health shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 40.4% of Nemaura Medical shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Profitability
This table compares Beauty Health and Nemaura Medical’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Beauty Health | -8.11% | -44.83% | -3.54% |
| Nemaura Medical | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Volatility and Risk
Beauty Health has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nemaura Medical has a beta of 0.13, meaning that its share price is 87% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Beauty Health beats Nemaura Medical on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Beauty Health
The Beauty Health Company designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and sells aesthetic technologies and products worldwide. The company's flagship product includes HydraFacial that enhance the skin to cleanse, extract, and hydrate the skin with proprietary solutions and serums. Its products also comprise Syndeo, a Delivery System designs to connects providers to the consumer's preferences to create a more personalized experience; consumables, such as single-use tips, solutions, and serums used to provide a hydrafacial treatment; SkinStylus SteriLock Microsystem, a microneedling device used for the treatment of enhancing appearance of surgical or traumatic hypertrophic scars on the abdomen and facial acne scarring in Fitzpatrick skin types I, II, and III; and Keravive, a treatment for scalp health. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Long Beach, California.
About Nemaura Medical
Nemaura Medical Inc., a medical technology company, manufactures continuous glucose monitoring system in the United States. It offers sugarBEAT, a non-invasive continuous glucose monitoring device for use by persons with Type I and Type II diabetes, as well as screen pre-diabetic patients. The company also offers proBEAT, a wellness guidance notes, that provide prompts and educate users on factors affecting blood sugar profiles, as well as conducts diabetes prevention and reversal programs. Nemaura Medical Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in New York, New York.
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