Comparing Vyome (NASDAQ:HIND) and Profusa (NASDAQ:PFSA)

Profusa (NASDAQ:PFSA) and Vyome (NASDAQ:HIND) are both small-cap manufacturing companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends and earnings.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for Profusa and Vyome, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Profusa	1	0	0	0	1.00
Vyome	1	0	2	0	2.33

Vyome has a consensus price target of $15.00, suggesting a potential upside of 199.40%. Given Vyome’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Vyome is more favorable than Profusa.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Profusa and Vyome”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Profusa	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Vyome	$8.01 million	3.53	-$7.13 million	($125.20)	-0.04

Profusa has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Vyome.

Volatility and Risk

Profusa has a beta of -0.18, indicating that its share price is 118% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vyome has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

9.8% of Profusa shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.1% of Vyome shares are owned by institutional investors. 21.6% of Profusa shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 33.0% of Vyome shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Profusa and Vyome’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Profusa	N/A	N/A	N/A
Vyome	-270.58%	-423.39%	-166.02%

Summary

Vyome beats Profusa on 7 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Profusa

NorthView Acquisition Corporation does not have significant operations. The company intends to effect a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses. It also intends to focus its search on businesses that are focused on healthcare sector. The company was incorporated in 2021 and is based in New York, New York. NorthView Acquisition Corporation is a subsidiary of NorthView Sponsor I, LLC.

About Vyome

ReShape Lifesciences Inc., a medical device company, provides products and services that manages and treat obesity and metabolic diseases in the United States, Australia, Europe, and internationally. The company’s product portfolio includes Lap-Band System, a minimally invasive long-term treatment of severe obesity and more invasive surgical stapling procedures, such as the gastric bypass or sleeve gastrectomy; and ReShape Vest system, an investigational, minimally invasive, laparoscopically implanted medical device that wraps around the stomach to enable weight loss in obese and morbidly obese patients without cutting or permanently removing portions of the stomach, or bypassing any portion of the gastrointestinal tract. It also offers ReShapeCare virtual health coaching program, a virtual telehealth weight management program that supports healthy lifestyle changes for all medically managed weight-loss patients; and ReShape Diabetes Bloc-Stim Neuromodulation, a technology that is in preclinical development for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus. In addition, the company provides Obalon Balloon System, a swallowable capsule used to track and display the location of the balloon during placement. The company was formerly known as EnteroMedics Inc. and changed its name to ReShape Lifesciences Inc. in 2017. ReShape Lifesciences Inc. was incorporated in 2002 and is headquartered in San Clemente, California.