Financial Comparison: Lucid Diagnostics (NASDAQ:LUCD) & Autonomix Medical (NASDAQ:AMIX)

Lucid Diagnostics (NASDAQ:LUCD) and Autonomix Medical (NASDAQ:AMIX) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Lucid Diagnostics and Autonomix Medical”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Lucid Diagnostics	$3.80 million	10.90	-$52.67 million	($1.27)	-0.62
Autonomix Medical	N/A	N/A	-$15.43 million	N/A	N/A

Autonomix Medical has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Lucid Diagnostics.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Lucid Diagnostics and Autonomix Medical, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Lucid Diagnostics	0	0	4	1	3.20
Autonomix Medical	0	0	1	0	3.00

Lucid Diagnostics presently has a consensus price target of $3.94, indicating a potential upside of 398.42%. Autonomix Medical has a consensus price target of $1.40, indicating a potential upside of 139.07%. Given Lucid Diagnostics’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Lucid Diagnostics is more favorable than Autonomix Medical.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

74.0% of Lucid Diagnostics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.8% of Autonomix Medical shares are held by institutional investors. 8.8% of Lucid Diagnostics shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 32.4% of Autonomix Medical shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Lucid Diagnostics and Autonomix Medical’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Lucid Diagnostics	-1,227.74%	N/A	-112.67%
Autonomix Medical	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

Lucid Diagnostics beats Autonomix Medical on 6 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Lucid Diagnostics

Lucid Diagnostics Inc. operates as a commercial-stage medical diagnostics technology company in the United States. The company focuses on patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) who are at risk of developing esophageal precancer and cancer, primarily highly lethal esophageal adenocarcinoma. Its flagship product, the EsoGuard Esophageal DNA Test performed on samples collected with the EsoCheck Esophageal Cell collection device, a testing tool with the goal of preventing EAC deaths through early detection of esophageal precancer in at-risk GERD patients. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in New York, New York. Lucid Diagnostics Inc. is a subsidiary of PAVmed Inc.

About Autonomix Medical

Autonomix Medical, Inc., a development stage medical device development company, focuses on advancing technologies for sensing and treating disorders relating to the peripheral nervous system. Its technology platform includes a catheter-based microchip-enabled sensing array to detect and differentiate peripheral neural signals. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in The Woodlands, Texas.