TriSalus Life Sciences (NASDAQ:TLSI – Get Free Report) and Biomerica (NASDAQ:BMRA – Get Free Report) are both small-cap healthcare companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares TriSalus Life Sciences and Biomerica”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| TriSalus Life Sciences | $45.15 million | 4.43 | -$39.23 million | ($1.30) | -2.50 |
| Biomerica | $4.45 million | 1.10 | -$3.78 million | ($1.64) | -0.97 |
Biomerica has lower revenue, but higher earnings than TriSalus Life Sciences. TriSalus Life Sciences is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Biomerica, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for TriSalus Life Sciences and Biomerica, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| TriSalus Life Sciences | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2.40 |
| Biomerica | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
TriSalus Life Sciences presently has a consensus price target of $10.20, indicating a potential upside of 213.85%. Biomerica has a consensus price target of $9.00, indicating a potential upside of 466.04%. Given Biomerica’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Biomerica is more favorable than TriSalus Life Sciences.
Profitability
This table compares TriSalus Life Sciences and Biomerica’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| TriSalus Life Sciences | -62.59% | N/A | -64.47% |
| Biomerica | -115.50% | -142.81% | -77.83% |
Volatility and Risk
TriSalus Life Sciences has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Biomerica has a beta of 0.4, indicating that its share price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
2.6% of TriSalus Life Sciences shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.3% of Biomerica shares are held by institutional investors. 16.3% of TriSalus Life Sciences shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 12.3% of Biomerica shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
TriSalus Life Sciences beats Biomerica on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
About TriSalus Life Sciences
TriSalus Life Sciences, Inc., a medical technology company, researches, develops, and sells drug delivery technologies and immune-oncology therapeutics for the treatment of liver and pancreatic cancer. The company offers Pressure Enabled Drug Delivery infusion systems, such as the TriNav infusion system, which is used in transarterial radioembolization and chemoembolization procedures for patients with liver cancer and metastases; and the Pancreatic Retrograde Venous Infusion device, which is in Phase 1 clinical trial, for locally advanced pancreatic cancer. It also develops nelitolimod, an investigational immunotherapeutic in Phase 1 clinical trial for the treatment of uveal melanoma with liver metastases, hepatocellular carcinoma, intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, and locally advanced pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. The company serves interventional radiologists, IR technicians, medical oncologists, nursing support, value analysis committee staff, and patients through its sales representatives and sales managers. TriSalus Life Sciences, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Westminster, Colorado.
About Biomerica
Biomerica, Inc., a biomedical technology company, develops, patents, manufactures, and markets diagnostic and therapeutic products for the detection and/or treatment of medical conditions and diseases worldwide. The company's diagnostic test kits are used to analyze blood, urine, nasal or fecal specimens from patients in the diagnosis of various diseases, food intolerances, and other medical complications; or to measure bacteria, hormones, antibodies, antigens, or other substances which may exist in the human body, stools, or blood in extremely small concentrations. It primarily sells its products for gastrointestinal diseases, food intolerances, and various esoteric tests at the physicians' offices and over-the-counter drugstores, and hospital/clinical laboratories. The company is also developing InFoods IBS, that uses a simple blood sample to identify patient-specific foods which may alleviate irritable bowel syndrome symptoms; and H. Pylori diagnostic test that indicates if a patient is infected with the H. Pylori bacteria. In addition, it develops products to indicate if a person has been infected by COVID-19. Biomerica, Inc. was incorporated in 1971 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.
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