Vicarious Surgical (NYSE:RBOT – Get Rating) and Cadre (NYSE:CDRE – Get Rating) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, risk and valuation.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Vicarious Surgical and Cadre's gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

Cadre has higher revenue and earnings than Vicarious Surgical. Vicarious Surgical is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cadre, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Volatility and Risk

Profitability

This table compares Vicarious Surgical and Cadre's net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings for Vicarious Surgical and Cadre, as reported by MarketBeat.

Vicarious Surgical currently has a consensus target price of $6.00, indicating a potential upside of 203.03%. Cadre has a consensus target price of $32.80, indicating a potential upside of 52.63%. Given Vicarious Surgical's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Vicarious Surgical is more favorable than Cadre.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

42.8% of Vicarious Surgical shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.1% of Cadre shares are held by institutional investors. 52.5% of Vicarious Surgical shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 52.9% of Cadre shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Cadre beats Vicarious Surgical on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Vicarious Surgical

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Vicarious Surgical Inc. operates as a robotics technology company in the United States. The company focuses on developing and commercializing Vicarious System, a single-incision surgical robot that virtually transports surgeons inside the patient to perform minimally invasive surgery. Vicarious Surgical Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

About Cadre

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Cadre Holdings, Inc. manufactures and distributes safety and survivability equipment that provides protection to users in hazardous or life-threatening situations in the United States and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Products and Distribution. It primarily provides body armor product, such as concealable, corrections, and tactical armor under the Safariland and Protech Tactical brands; survival suits, remotely operated vehicles, specialty tools, blast sensors, accessories, and vehicle blast attenuation seats for bomb safety technicians; bomb suits; duty gear, including belts and accessories; and other protective and law enforcement equipment comprising communications gear, forensic and investigation products, firearms cleaning solutions, and crowd control products. The company also offers third-party products, such as uniforms, optics, boots, firearms, and ammunition. It serves first responders, such as state and local law enforcement, fire and rescue, explosive ordnance disposal technicians, emergency medical technicians, fishing, and wildlife enforcement and departments of corrections, as well as federal agencies including the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Interior, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Corrections, and various foreign government agencies. The company was founded in 1964 and is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida.

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