Venus Concept (NASDAQ:VERO – Get Free Report) and Tandem Diabetes Care (NASDAQ:TNDM – Get Free Report) are both medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, earnings, risk and analyst recommendations.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent recommendations for Venus Concept and Tandem Diabetes Care, as reported by MarketBeat.
Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
Venus Concept | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
Tandem Diabetes Care | 0 | 3 | 15 | 0 | 2.83 |
Tandem Diabetes Care has a consensus price target of $53.81, indicating a potential upside of 49.85%. Given Tandem Diabetes Care’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Tandem Diabetes Care is more favorable than Venus Concept.
Volatility and Risk
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Venus Concept and Tandem Diabetes Care”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
Venus Concept | $67.20 million | 0.03 | -$37.25 million | ($8.02) | -0.04 |
Tandem Diabetes Care | $854.35 million | 2.76 | -$222.61 million | ($1.93) | -18.61 |
Venus Concept has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Tandem Diabetes Care. Tandem Diabetes Care is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Venus Concept, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares Venus Concept and Tandem Diabetes Care’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
Venus Concept | -74.62% | N/A | -47.46% |
Tandem Diabetes Care | -14.84% | -44.19% | -11.99% |
Institutional & Insider Ownership
87.4% of Venus Concept shares are owned by institutional investors. 58.0% of Venus Concept shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Tandem Diabetes Care shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Tandem Diabetes Care beats Venus Concept on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Venus Concept
Venus Concept Inc., a medical technology company, develops, commercializes, and delivers minimally invasive and non-invasive medical aesthetic and hair restoration technologies, and related services in the United States and internationally. Its product portfolio includes Venus Legacy, a noninvasive device used in dermatological and general surgical procedures for females; Venus Versa, a multi-application device used in aesthetic and cosmetic procedures; Venus Versa Pro; and Venus Viva and Venus Viva MD, an advanced, portable, and fractional RF system for dermatological procedures requiring ablation and resurfacing of the skin. The company also offers Venus Fiore, a device that delivers non-thermal RF with massage and magnetic field pulses to treat various medical conditions; Venus Bliss and Venus Bliss Max for non-invasive lipolysis of the abdomen, back, thights, and flanks in individuals with a body mass index of 30 or less; Venus Glow, a dermabrasion device used to improve skin appearance; and NeoGraft, an advanced hair restoration technology with an automated FUE and implantation system. In addition, it provides Venus Velocity and Venus Epileve for hair removal, permanent hair reduction, and treatment of pseudofolliculitis barbae; ARTAS iX, a robotic system to assist physicians in identifying and extracting hair follicles units from the scalp during hair transplantation, creating recipient sites, and implanting the harvested hair follicles; and AI.ME an interactive, image-guided, and computer assisted system for fractional skin resurfacing. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
About Tandem Diabetes Care
Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc., a medical device company, designs, develops, and commercializes technology solutions for people living with diabetes in the United States and internationally. The company's flagship product is the t:slim X2 insulin delivery system, a pump platform for managing insulin delivery and display continuous glucose monitoring sensor information directly on the pump home screen; and Tandem Mobi insulin pump, an automated insulin delivery system. It also sells single-use products, including cartridges for storing and delivering insulin, and infusion sets that connect the insulin pump to the user's body. In addition, the company offers Tandem Device Updater used to update the pump software from a personal computer; Tandem Source, a web-based data management platform, which provides a visual way to display diabetes therapy management data from the pumps, integrated CGMs, and supported blood glucose meters; and Sugarmate, a mobile app used to help people visualize diabetes therapy data. The company was formerly known as Phluid Inc. and changed its name to Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. in January 2008. Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.
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