CVR Medical (OTCMKTS:CRRVF) versus Azenta (NASDAQ:AZTA) Financial Contrast

CVR Medical (OTCMKTS:CRRVF) and Azenta (NASDAQ:AZTA) are both medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for CVR Medical and Azenta, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
CVR Medical	0	0	0	0	0.00
Azenta	1	3	4	0	2.38

Azenta has a consensus price target of $39.50, indicating a potential upside of 75.63%. Given Azenta’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Azenta is more favorable than CVR Medical.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares CVR Medical and Azenta”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
CVR Medical	N/A	N/A	N/A	($0.02)	N/A
Azenta	$593.82 million	1.75	-$55.76 million	($3.96)	-5.68

CVR Medical has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Azenta. Azenta is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CVR Medical, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

99.1% of Azenta shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.9% of Azenta shares are owned by 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.

Volatility & Risk

CVR Medical has a beta of 32.6, suggesting that its share price is 3,160% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Azenta has a beta of 1.43, suggesting that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares CVR Medical and Azenta’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CVR Medical	N/A	N/A	N/A
Azenta	-30.49%	1.23%	1.02%

Summary

Azenta beats CVR Medical on 8 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About CVR Medical

CVR Medical Corp., a healthcare company, engages in the research and development of subsonic, infrasonic, and low frequency sound wave analysis technology for the healthcare sector. The company provides carotid stenotic scan device, a diagnostic tool to detect and measure carotid arterial stenosis. It offers its products for patients, payors, and healthcare providers. CVR Medical Corp. was incorporated in 1980 and is headquartered in North Vancouver, Canada.

About Azenta

Azenta, Inc. provides biological and chemical compound sample exploration and management solutions for the life sciences market in North America, Africa, China, the United Kingdom, rest of Europe, the Asia Pacific, and internationally. The company operates in two reportable segments, Life Sciences Products and Life Sciences Services. The Life Sciences Products segment offers automated cold storage solutions, consumables and instruments, controlled rate thawing devices, and temperature-controlled storage and transportation solutions. This segment also provides sample management solutions, such as consumable vials and tubes, polymerase chain reaction, plates, instruments for supporting workflows, and informatics. The Life Sciences Services segment provides genomic services, that includes gene sequencing and gene synthesis services; and sample repository solutions, such as on-site and off-site sample storage, cold chain logistics, sample transport and collection relocation, bio-processing solutions, disaster recovery and business continuity, and biospecimen procurement services, as well as project management and consulting services for genomic analysis and the management and care of biological samples used in pharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare, clinical, and academic research, and development sectors. It serves a range of life science customers, including pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, biorepositories, and research institutes. The company was formerly known as Brooks Automation, Inc. and changed its name to Azenta, Inc. in December 2021. Azenta, Inc. was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.