TransMedics Group (NASDAQ:TMDX – Get Free Report) and IceCure Medical (NASDAQ:ICCM – Get Free Report) are both healthcare companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, profitability, valuation and earnings.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for TransMedics Group and IceCure Medical, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| TransMedics Group | 0 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2.42 |
| IceCure Medical | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2.25 |
TransMedics Group currently has a consensus target price of $115.60, indicating a potential upside of 58.90%. IceCure Medical has a consensus target price of $30.00, indicating a potential upside of 3,694.59%. Given IceCure Medical’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe IceCure Medical is more favorable than TransMedics Group.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares TransMedics Group and IceCure Medical”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| TransMedics Group | $605.49 million | 4.15 | $190.29 million | $3.89 | 18.70 |
| IceCure Medical | $3.38 million | 0.80 | -$15.06 million | ($8.52) | -0.09 |
TransMedics Group has higher revenue and earnings than IceCure Medical. IceCure Medical is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TransMedics Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Risk and Volatility
TransMedics Group has a beta of 2.14, suggesting that its stock price is 114% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IceCure Medical has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares TransMedics Group and IceCure Medical’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| TransMedics Group | 22.69% | 15.88% | 5.95% |
| IceCure Medical | -427.67% | -174.26% | -112.58% |
Insider and Institutional Ownership
99.7% of TransMedics Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.6% of IceCure Medical shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.9% of TransMedics Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of IceCure Medical shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
TransMedics Group beats IceCure Medical on 12 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
About TransMedics Group
TransMedics Group, Inc., a commercial-stage medical technology company, engages in transforming organ transplant therapy for end-stage organ failure patients in the United States and internationally. The company offers Organ Care System (OCS), a portable organ perfusion, optimization, and monitoring system that utilizes its proprietary and customized technology to replicate near-physiologic conditions for donor organs outside of the human body. Its OCS includes OCS LUNG for the preservation of standard criteria donor lungs for double-lung transplantation; OCS Heart, a technology for preservation of DBD donor hearts deemed unsuitable due to limitations of cold storage and for ex vivo reanimation, functional monitoring, and beating-heart preservation of donation-after-circulatory-death hearts; and OCS Liver for the preservation of DBD and DCD of donor livers. The company also developed national OCS program, a turnkey solution for outsourced organ retrieval; and provides OCS organ management and logistics services, including aviation and ground transportation, and other coordination activity. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts.
About IceCure Medical
IceCure Medical Ltd, a commercial stage medical device company, engages in the research, development, and marketing of cryoablation systems, disposables, and technologies for treating tumors. The company offers ProSense system, a single probe system for the treatment of tumors, as well as associated disposables; and IceSense3 system for ablation indications to urology, oncology, dermatology, gynecology, general surgery, thoracic surgery, and proctology. It also develops XSense system, a single probe system; and MultiSense, a multi probe system for the treatment of multiple and larger tumors. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in Caesarea, Israel.
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