Critical Survey: Fractyl Health (GUTS) and The Competition

Fractyl Health (NASDAQ:GUTS) is one of 237 public companies in the “Surgical & medical instruments” industry, but how does it compare to its rivals? We will compare Fractyl Health to similar businesses based on the strength of its profitability, earnings, risk, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends and analyst recommendations.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

47.7% of shares of all “Surgical & medical instruments” companies are held by institutional investors. 15.6% of shares of all “Surgical & medical instruments” companies 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.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Fractyl Health and its rivals, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Fractyl Health	0	0	3	0	3.00
Fractyl Health Competitors	1952	4974	9229	274	2.48

Fractyl Health presently has a consensus target price of $22.00, indicating a potential upside of 1,129.05%. As a group, “Surgical & medical instruments” companies have a potential upside of 21.72%. Given Fractyl Health’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Fractyl Health is more favorable than its rivals.

Profitability

This table compares Fractyl Health and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Fractyl Health	-64,849.48%	N/A	-57.21%
Fractyl Health Competitors	-574.36%	-156.80%	-27.37%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Fractyl Health and its rivals revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Fractyl Health	$97,000.00	-$77.09 million	-0.15
Fractyl Health Competitors	$1.03 billion	$10.01 million	-7.03

Fractyl Health’s rivals have higher revenue and earnings than Fractyl Health. Fractyl Health is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its rivals, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Summary

Fractyl Health rivals beat Fractyl Health on 7 of the 12 factors compared.

Fractyl Health Company Profile

Fractyl Health, Inc., a metabolic therapeutics company, develops therapies for the treatment of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and obesity. The company develops Revita DMR System (Revita), an outpatient procedural therapy designed to durably modify duodenal dysfunction, a pathologic consequence of a high fat and high sugar diet, which can initiate T2D and obesity in humans. It also develops Rejuva, a novel adeno-associated virus delivered pancreatic gene therapy platform that is designed to enable long-term remission of T2D and obesity by durably altering metabolic hormone function in the pancreatic islet cells of patients. Fractyl Health, Inc. was formerly known as Fractyl Laboratories Inc. and changed its name to Fractyl Health, Inc. on June 09, 2021. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.