Second Sight Medical Products Inc. (NASDAQ:EYES) and SI-BONE Inc. (NASDAQ:SIBN) compete with each other in the Medical Appliances & Equipment sector. We will analyze and compare their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and valuation.

Earnings and Valuation

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Second Sight Medical Products Inc.	8.24M	11.46	33.65M	-0.54	0.00
SI-BONE Inc.	55.38M	8.27	17.45M	-0.76	0.00

In table 1 we can see Second Sight Medical Products Inc. and SI-BONE Inc.’s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

Profitability

Table 2 provides Second Sight Medical Products Inc. and SI-BONE Inc.’s return on equity, net margins and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Second Sight Medical Products Inc.	-408.37%	-616%	-269.5%
SI-BONE Inc.	-31.51%	0%	0%

Liquidity

The Current Ratio of Second Sight Medical Products Inc. is 1.4 while its Quick Ratio stands at 0.9. The Current Ratio of rival SI-BONE Inc. is 2.8 and its Quick Ratio is has 2.4. SI-BONE Inc. is better equipped to clear short and long-term obligations than Second Sight Medical Products Inc.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

Second Sight Medical Products Inc. and SI-BONE Inc. has shares held by institutional investors as follows: 9.9% and 78.6%. Insiders held 0.2% of Second Sight Medical Products Inc. shares. Comparatively, 4.1% are SI-BONE Inc.’s share held by insiders.

Performance

Here are the Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half Yearly, Yearly and YTD Performance of both pretenders.

	Performance (W)	Performance (M)	Performance (Q)	Performance (HY)	Performance (Y)	Performance (YTD)
Second Sight Medical Products Inc.	20.01%	3.91%	-23.73%	-49.31%	-46.37%	-6.12%
SI-BONE Inc.	-1.88%	13.07%	9.77%	0%	0%	-2.68%

For the past year Second Sight Medical Products Inc.’s stock price has bigger decline than SI-BONE Inc.

Summary

On 8 of the 10 factors SI-BONE Inc. beats Second Sight Medical Products Inc.

Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets prosthetic devices to restore functional vision to blind individuals in the United States, Italy, Germany, France, and Canada. The companyÂ’s product is the Argus II System, which treats outer retinal degenerations, such as retinitis pigmentosa. The company was formerly known as Second Sight LLC. and changed its name to Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Sylmar, California.

SI-BONE, Inc., a medical device company, develops and commercializes a proprietary minimally invasive surgical implant system in the United States and Internationally. It offers iFuse, an implant system to fuse the sacroiliac joint to treat sacroiliac joint dysfunction that causes lower back pain. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.