Comparing Echo Therapeutics (OTCMKTS:ECTE) & Integer (NYSE:ITGR)

Echo Therapeutics (OTCMKTS:ECTE) and Integer (NYSE:ITGR) are both medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Echo Therapeutics and Integer’s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Echo Therapeutics	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Integer	$1.38 billion	1.99	$66.38 million	$2.12	38.68

Integer has higher revenue and earnings than Echo Therapeutics.

Profitability

This table compares Echo Therapeutics and Integer’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Echo Therapeutics	N/A	N/A	N/A
Integer	4.77%	9.67%	4.84%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

99.3% of Integer shares are held by institutional investors. 7.0% of Echo Therapeutics shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Integer shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings for Echo Therapeutics and Integer, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Echo Therapeutics	0	0	0	0	N/A
Integer	0	3	3	0	2.50

Integer has a consensus target price of $93.83, indicating a potential upside of 14.42%. Given Integer’s higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Integer is more favorable than Echo Therapeutics.

Summary

Integer beats Echo Therapeutics on 7 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Echo Therapeutics

Echo Therapeutics, Inc. is a medical device company, which engages in the development of non-invasive, and wireless continuous glucose monitoring system for use in the diabetes outpatient market. It offers needle-free skin preparation device as a platform technology that allows for enhanced skin permeation enabling extraction of analytes, such as glucose and delivery of topical pharmaceuticals. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Iselin, NJ.

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 Medical and Non-Medical segments. The company offers products for interventional cardiology, structural heart, heart failure, peripheral vascular, neurovascular, interventional oncology, electrophysiology, vascular access, infusion therapy, hemodialysis, 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, neuromodulation, orthopedics, vascular, and advanced surgical and portable medical markets. Integer Holdings Corporation was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Plano, Texas.