Fractyl Health (NASDAQ:GUTS) versus Lucid Diagnostics (NASDAQ:LUCD) Head to Head Survey

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for Fractyl Health and Lucid Diagnostics, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Fractyl Health	0	0	3	0	3.00
Lucid Diagnostics	0	0	3	0	3.00

Fractyl Health presently has a consensus price target of $22.00, indicating a potential upside of 380.35%. Lucid Diagnostics has a consensus price target of $4.33, indicating a potential upside of 400.91%. Given Lucid Diagnostics’ higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Lucid Diagnostics is more favorable than Fractyl Health.

Profitability

This table compares Fractyl Health and Lucid Diagnostics’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Fractyl Health	N/A	N/A	N/A
Lucid Diagnostics	-1,576.60%	N/A	-106.33%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Fractyl Health and Lucid Diagnostics’ revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Fractyl Health	$120,000.00	1,828.18	-$77.09 million	N/A	N/A
Lucid Diagnostics	$2.98 million	15.20	-$52.67 million	($1.27)	-0.68

Lucid Diagnostics has higher revenue and earnings than Fractyl Health.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

74.0% of Lucid Diagnostics shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.8% of Lucid Diagnostics shares are owned by company 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.

Summary

Lucid Diagnostics beats Fractyl Health on 5 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Fractyl Health

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.

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.