Avanos Medical (NYSE:AVNS – Get Free Report) and Sintx Technologies (NASDAQ:SINT – Get Free Report) are both healthcare companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
95.2% of Avanos Medical shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.4% of Sintx Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of Avanos Medical shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.1% of Sintx Technologies shares are held 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.
Profitability
This table compares Avanos Medical and Sintx Technologies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Avanos Medical | -10.39% | 5.39% | 3.97% |
| Sintx Technologies | -848.20% | -354.44% | -115.37% |
Valuation & Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Avanos Medical | $715.90 million | 1.64 | -$72.90 million | ($1.61) | -15.52 |
| Sintx Technologies | $1.02 million | 9.36 | -$10.36 million | ($4.91) | -0.45 |
Sintx Technologies has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Avanos Medical. Avanos Medical is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sintx Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for Avanos Medical and Sintx Technologies, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.50 |
| Sintx Technologies | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2.50 |
Sintx Technologies has a consensus target price of $9.50, suggesting a potential upside of 329.86%. Given Sintx Technologies’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Sintx Technologies is more favorable than Avanos Medical.
Summary
Sintx Technologies beats Avanos Medical on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Avanos Medical
Avanos Medical, Inc., a medical technology company, offers medical device solutions in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and Latin America. It offers a portfolio of chronic care products that include digestive health products, such as Mic-Key enteral feeding tubes, Corpak patient feeding solutions, and NeoMed neonatal and pediatric feeding solutions. The company also provides a portfolio of non-opioid pain solutions, including surgical pain and recovery products, such as ON-Q and ambIT surgical pain pumps, Game Ready cold, and compression therapy systems. In addition, it offers interventional pain solutions, which offers minimally invasive pain-relieving therapies, such as Coolief pain relief therapy; OrthogenRx's knee osteoarthritis hyaluronic acid pain relief injection products; and Trident radiofrequency ablation products to treat chronic pain conditions. It markets its products directly to hospitals and other healthcare providers, healthcare facilities, and other end-user customers, as well as through third-party wholesale distributors. The company was formerly known as Halyard Health, Inc. and changed its name to Avanos Medical, Inc. in June 2018. Avanos Medical, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia.
About Sintx Technologies
Sintx Technologies, Inc., an advanced ceramics company, engages in the research, development, and commercialization of medical devices manufactured with silicon nitride for biomedical, technical, and antipathogenic applications in the United States. It provides solid and porous silicon nitride; silicon nitrite powder; and silicon nitride coating products, as well as silicon nitride composite materials, polyetheretherketone, and polyetherketoneketone. The company was formerly known as Amedica Corporation. Sintx Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 1996 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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