Comparing Cooper Companies (NASDAQ:COO) & Lancer Orthodontics (OTCMKTS:LANZ)

Lancer Orthodontics (OTCMKTS:LANZ) and Cooper Companies (NASDAQ:COO) are both medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations and earnings.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings for Lancer Orthodontics and Cooper Companies, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Lancer Orthodontics	0	0	0	0	0.00
Cooper Companies	0	2	9	1	2.92

Cooper Companies has a consensus target price of $96.73, indicating a potential upside of 36.83%. Given Cooper Companies’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Cooper Companies is more favorable than Lancer Orthodontics.

Profitability

This table compares Lancer Orthodontics and Cooper Companies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Lancer Orthodontics	N/A	N/A	N/A
Cooper Companies	10.39%	9.60%	6.35%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

24.4% of Cooper Companies shares are held by institutional investors. 24.3% of Lancer Orthodontics shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Cooper Companies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk & Volatility

Lancer Orthodontics has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cooper Companies has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Lancer Orthodontics and Cooper Companies”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Lancer Orthodontics	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Cooper Companies	$3.99 billion	3.54	$392.30 million	$2.06	34.32

Cooper Companies has higher revenue and earnings than Lancer Orthodontics.

Summary

Cooper Companies beats Lancer Orthodontics on 10 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Lancer Orthodontics

Lancer Orthodontics, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets orthodontic products for orthodontists and dentists worldwide. It offers aesthetic brackets, brackets and buccal tubes, bands, adhesives, wires, elastomerics, intraoral and extraoral appliances, instruments, and miscellaneous products. The company was founded in 1967 and is based in Vista, California.

About Cooper Companies

The Cooper Companies, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and markets contact lens wearers. The company operates in two segments, CooperVision and CooperSurgical. The CooperVision segment provides spherical lense, including lenses that correct near and farsightedness; and toric and multifocal lenses comprising lenses correcting vision challenges, such as astigmatism, presbyopia, and myopia in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific. The CooperSurgical segment focuses on family and women's health care, which provides fertility products and services, medical devices, and contraception, as well as cryostorage, such as cord blood and cord tissue storage to health care professionals and patients worldwide. It offers surgical and office products, including endosee endometrial imaging products, fetal pillow cephalic elevation devices for use in cesarean sections, illuminated speculum products, lone star retractor systems, loop electrosurgical excision procedure products, mara water ablation systems, paragard contraceptive IUDs, point-of-care, and uterine positioning products, as well as cryostorage, such as cord blood and cord tissue storage; fertility products and services, such as fertility consumables and equipment, donor gamete services, and genomic services, including genetic testing. The company sells its products to distributors, group purchasing organizations, eye care and health care professionals, including independent practices, corporate retailers, hospitals and clinics, and authorized resellers. The Cooper Companies, Inc. was founded in 1958 and is headquartered in San Ramon, California.