Integer (NYSE:ITGR – Get Free Report) and SiBone (NASDAQ:SIBN – Get Free Report) are both healthcare companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.
Profitability
This table compares Integer and SiBone’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Integer | 6.97% | 12.79% | 6.48% |
| SiBone | -6.85% | -8.23% | -6.07% |
Insider & Institutional Ownership
99.3% of Integer shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.1% of SiBone shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Integer shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of SiBone shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Valuation and Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Integer | $1.85 billion | 2.32 | $102.81 million | $3.66 | 34.55 |
| SiBone | $213.60 million | 3.75 | -$18.90 million | ($0.34) | -53.18 |
Integer has higher revenue and earnings than SiBone. SiBone is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Integer, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Integer and SiBone, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Integer | 0 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 2.07 |
| SiBone | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2.71 |
Integer presently has a consensus target price of $109.86, suggesting a potential downside of 13.13%. SiBone has a consensus target price of $24.17, suggesting a potential upside of 33.67%. Given SiBone’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe SiBone is more favorable than Integer.
Risk and Volatility
Integer has a beta of 0.58, meaning that its stock price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SiBone has a beta of 0.66, meaning that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Integer beats SiBone on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Integer
Integer Holdings Corporation operates as a medical device outsource manufacturer in the United States, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, and internationally. It operates through two segments, Medical and Non-Medical. The company offers products for interventional cardiology, structural heart, heart failure, peripheral vascular, neurovascular, interventional oncology, electrophysiology, vascular access, infusion therapy, hemodialysis, non-vascular, urology, and gastroenterology procedures. It also provides cardiac rhythm management products, including implantable pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators, insertable cardiac monitors, implantable cardiac pacing and defibrillation leads, and heart failure therapies; neuromodulation products, such as implantable spinal cord stimulators; and non-rechargeable batteries, feedthroughs, device enclosures, machined components, and lead components and sub-assemblies. In addition, the company offers rechargeable batteries and chargers; and arthroscopic, laparoscopic, and general surgery devices and components, such as harmonic scalpels, shaver blades, burr shavers, radio frequency probes, biopsy probes, trocars, electrocautery components, wound dressings, GERD treatment components, and phacoemulsification needles. Further, it provides orthopedic products that include instruments used in hip, knee, and spine surgeries, as well as reamers and chisels. Additionally, the company offers customized battery power and power management systems, and battery solutions for the energy, military, and environmental markets. Furthermore, the company provides medical technologies. It serves multi-national original equipment manufacturers and their affiliated subsidiaries in the cardiac rhythm management, neuromodulation, orthopedics, vascular, and advanced surgical and portable medical markets. Integer Holdings Corporation was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Plano, Texas.
About SiBone
SI-BONE, Inc., a medical device company, that operate to solve musculoskeletal disorders of the sacropelvic anatomy in the United States and internationally. It offers proprietary minimally invasive surgical implant system to address sacroiliac joint dysfunction and fusion, adult deformity and degeneration, and pelvic trauma; and implantable bone products. The company also provides iFuse-3D, a titanium implant that combines the triangular cross-section of the iFuse implant with the proprietary 3D-printed porous surface and fenestrated design; iFuse-TORQ, a set of 3D-printed threaded implants designed to treat pelvic trauma; and iFuse Bedrock Granite implant provides sacroiliac fusion and sacropelvic fixation as a foundational element for segmental spinal fusion. It markets its products primarily with a direct sales force, as well as through agents and resellers. SI-BONE, Inc. was incorporated in 2008 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
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