Mettler-Toledo International (NYSE:MTD – Get Free Report) and QHSLab (OTCMKTS:USAQ – Get Free Report) are both medical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk and profitability.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of current ratings and target prices for Mettler-Toledo International and QHSLab, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Mettler-Toledo International | 0 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 2.50 |
| QHSLab | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
Mettler-Toledo International currently has a consensus target price of $1,408.55, suggesting a potential upside of 19.17%. Given Mettler-Toledo International’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Mettler-Toledo International is more favorable than QHSLab.
Earnings & Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Mettler-Toledo International | $4.03 billion | 5.93 | $869.19 million | $42.64 | 27.72 |
| QHSLab | $2.69 million | 2.37 | $460,000.00 | $0.03 | 18.85 |
Mettler-Toledo International has higher revenue and earnings than QHSLab. QHSLab is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mettler-Toledo International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares Mettler-Toledo International and QHSLab’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Mettler-Toledo International | 21.40% | -622.80% | 24.97% |
| QHSLab | 15.60% | -27.74% | -6.98% |
Volatility and Risk
Mettler-Toledo International has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, QHSLab has a beta of 0.48, suggesting that its share price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
95.1% of Mettler-Toledo International shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Mettler-Toledo International shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 74.2% of QHSLab shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Mettler-Toledo International beats QHSLab on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Mettler-Toledo International
Mettler-Toledo International Inc. manufactures and supplies precision instruments and services in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and internationally. It operates through five segments: U.S. Operations, Swiss Operations, Western European Operations, Chinese Operations, and Other. The company’s laboratory instruments include laboratory balances, liquid pipetting solutions, automated laboratory reactors, real-time analytics, titrators, pH meters, process analytics sensors and analyzer technologies, physical value analyzers, density and refractometry, thermal analysis systems, and other analytical instruments; and LabX, a laboratory software platform to manage and analyze data generated from its instruments. Its industrial instruments comprise industrial weighing instruments and related terminals, automatic dimensional measurement and data capture solutions, vehicle scale systems, industrial software, metal detection equipment, x-ray systems, check weighing equipment, camera-based imaging equipment, track-and-trace solutions, and product inspection systems. The company’s retail weighing solutions consist of weighing and software solutions, AI-driven image recognition solution, and automated packaging and labelling solutions for the meat backroom. It serves the life science industry, independent research organizations, and testing labs; food and beverage manufacturers; food retailers; chemical, specialty chemical, and cosmetics companies; food retailers; transportation and logistics, metals, and electronics industries; and the academic community through its direct sales force and indirect distribution channels. Mettler-Toledo International Inc. was incorporated in 1991 and is based in Columbus, Ohio.
About QHSLab
QHSLab, Inc., a medical device technology and software as a service (SaaS) company, focuses on value-based healthcare, informatics, and algorithmic personalized medicine. It develops digital therapeutics and point of care solutions to support remote patient monitoring, address chronic care, and preventive medicine. The company provides quality health score lab expert system (QHSLab), a cloud-based SaaS system, which provides physicians and healthcare organizations with the ability to capture and store patient information electronically in a secure database; and distributes AllergiEnd, a diagnostic related product and allergen immunotherapy treatments to primary care physicians. Its products are designed to promote prevention, early detection, management, and reversal of chronic diseases. The company was formerly known as USA Equities Corp. and changed its name to QHSLab, Inc. in April 2022. QHSLab, Inc. has a strategic alliance with Medical License Factory, LLC. QHSLab, Inc. was incorporated in 1983 and is based in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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