Entellus Medical (NASDAQ: ENTL) and Masimo Corporation (NASDAQ:MASI) are both medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Entellus Medical and Masimo Corporation’s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | EBITDA | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Entellus Medical | $80.80 million | 5.44 | -$26.99 million | ($1.66) | -10.43 |
| Masimo Corporation | $730.06 million | 5.99 | $182.11 million | $6.14 | 13.72 |
Masimo Corporation has higher revenue and earnings than Entellus Medical. Entellus Medical is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Masimo Corporation, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares Entellus Medical and Masimo Corporation’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Entellus Medical | -41.11% | -60.34% | -36.76% |
| Masimo Corporation | 45.90% | 23.45% | 16.22% |
Risk & Volatility
Entellus Medical has a beta of 0.04, meaning that its share price is 96% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Masimo Corporation has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Entellus Medical and Masimo Corporation, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Entellus Medical | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2.43 |
| Masimo Corporation | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2.57 |
Entellus Medical presently has a consensus target price of $21.83, suggesting a potential upside of 26.13%. Masimo Corporation has a consensus target price of $97.00, suggesting a potential upside of 15.16%. Given Entellus Medical’s higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Entellus Medical is more favorable than Masimo Corporation.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
67.6% of Entellus Medical shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.1% of Masimo Corporation shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.1% of Entellus Medical shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.6% of Masimo Corporation shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Masimo Corporation beats Entellus Medical on 11 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Entellus Medical
Entellus Medical, Inc. is a medical technology company. The Company is focused on delivering patient and physician experiences through products designed for the minimally invasive treatment of chronic and recurrent sinusitis in both adult and pediatric patients. Its three core product lines, XprESS Multi-Sinus Dilation Systems, MiniFESS Surgical Instruments, and FocESS Imaging & Navigation, are designed to enable ear, nose and throat (ENT), physicians to perform a range of procedures in the ENT physician office and to simplify operating room-based treatment. The Company’s XprESS Multi-Sinus Dilation family of products consists of its XprESS Pro device, its XprESS LoProfile device and its XprESS Ultra device. The MiniFESS family of surgical instruments includes eight devices designed to enable physicians to perform various surgical procedures. The Fiagon Image Guidance System (IGS) consists of a navigation unit, navigation sensor, software instruments and a patient localizer.
About Masimo Corporation
Masimo Corporation is a medical technology company that develops, manufactures and markets a range of non-invasive patient monitoring technologies. The Company’s business is Measure-through Motion and Low Perfusion pulse oximetry monitoring, known as Masimo Signal Extraction Technology (SET) pulse oximetry. Its product offerings include non-invasive monitoring of blood constituents with an optical signature, optical organ oximetry monitoring, electrical, brain function monitoring, acoustic respiration monitoring and exhaled gas monitoring. In addition, the Company has developed the Root patient monitoring and connectivity platform, the Radical-7 bedside and portable patient monitor, and the Radius-7 wearable wireless patient monitor. It offers Patient SafetyNet remote patient surveillance monitoring system, which allows patients to be monitored through a personal computer-based monitor or by care providers through their pagers, voice-over-Internet Protocol (IP) phones or smartphones.
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