Verdict: Side-by-side breakdown using the Bull Rankings model. BSX scored 71.4, GMED scored 80.5 — GMED leads.
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BSX
Boston Scientific Corporation
Medical Devices · Quality-Growth
71.4
$42.73 · $61.9B
fundamentals as of
Score gap
9.1
GMED leads
GMED
Globus Medical, Inc.
Medical Devices · Quality-Growth
80.5
$74.65 · $10.0B
fundamentals as of
At a glance · who leads each dimension, on the model's own rules
CheapestBSX17.3x
Fastest growthBSX+19.9%
Strongest balance sheetGMED0.02
Highest qualityGMED72 / 100
Largest discount to fair valueGMED-34%
Side by side · every name on one set of axes
Growth against the P/E multiple. Up and to the right is cheaper and faster — the quality-growth idea in one picture. Points beyond the axis are pinned to the edge and marked off-scale rather than allowed to compress everything else.
The model, pillar by pillar (0–100 each)
BSX
stronger →← stronger
GMED
66
Qualityreturns · margins · balance sheet
72
78
Growthrevenue & earnings expansion
88
71
Valuevaluation vs sector peers
82
GMED is stronger on 3 of 3 pillars.
Fundamentals, head-to-head
BSX
GMED
$1.8bC+
FCF
$746mC+
+19.9%B+
Rev
+16.7%B+
0.50B
D/E
0.02A-
17.3xA-
P/E
19.1xB+
0.59A-
PEG
1.49B
Winner per row is the stronger grade; where grades tie, the better figure breaks it. A true tie or a missing value shows no highlight.
Valuation · DCF cross-check
BSX
GMED
20% above
Price vs fair valuelower is cheaper
34% below
~14%/yr
Growth the price impliesyr-1 FCF growth, fading to 4% · lower = less priced in
~1%/yr
-28%
1-yr DCF upside
+28%
-16%
5-yr DCF upside
+51%
+5%
10-yr DCF upside
+91%
The DCF is a cross-check on intrinsic value, separate from the quality-growth score above.
Model signals
BSX
Why this score
Buying back stock
GMED
No notable signals flagged.
The companies
BSXBoston Scientific Corporation
Medical Devices · $42.73 · beta 0.57
Why now
Medical Devices · market cap $61.9b. Down 60% from 52-week high of $105.65 — deep drawdown territory. Revenue growing +20%, comfortably above the S&P median. PEG 0.59 — paying under fair value for the growth rate. 29 sell-side analysts rate this a Buy with a mean 1-yr target of $59.90 (implying +40% upside).
Moat
Net margin 17% beats the market median by a meaningful margin — the company is keeping more of every revenue dollar than the average S&P constituent. ROE 15% is above 15% — the equity base is compounding at a rate the market struggles to discount accurately. $61.9b market cap gives the company enough scale to absorb fixed costs that subscale competitors can't, without yet being so large that growth has to come from acquisition.
Risk
Down 60% from the 52-week high — the market is pricing in something the screen can't see; verify the bear case before sizing up.
GMEDGlobus Medical, Inc.
Medical Devices · $74.65 · beta 0.96
Why now
Medical Devices · market cap $10.0b. Down 26% from 52-week high of $101.40 — deep drawdown territory. Revenue growing +17%, comfortably above the S&P median. 13 sell-side analysts rate this a Buy with a mean 1-yr target of $100.92 (implying +35% upside).
Moat
Net margin 17% beats the market median by a meaningful margin — the company is keeping more of every revenue dollar than the average S&P constituent. ROE 12% meets the long-run market sustainable threshold — solid but not differentiated; the durability comes from elsewhere. FCF converts 139% of net income — earnings translate cleanly into cash.
Risk
Mature compounder — the risk is paying up for quality at a moment when growth is decelerating. Watch for sequential revenue + margin trends; the inflection from "compounder" to "ex-compounder" is hard to spot until the multiple already started compressing.
Verdict — model-derived comparison
GMED leads BSX by 0.6 points (79.6 to 79.0), its sharpest advantage coming in D/E (grade A-). A contrarian could still prefer BSX, which trades about 18% below our DCF fair value — a margin of safety the score doesn't reward. Note they play different roles — BSX screens as value, GMED screens as growth — so the model rewards different traits for each.
Our AI analyst is busy right now, so this verdict is drawn directly from the pillars, grades and DCF above.
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Where BSX and GMED diverge
On the headline score the gap is 9.1 points in favor of GMED. The widest single difference is Value, where GMED leads by 11.7 points.
ValueBSX 70.7 · GMED 82.4GMED +11.7
GrowthBSX 78.3 · GMED 87.8GMED +9.5
QualityBSX 65.8 · GMED 72.0GMED +6.2
Pillars run 0–100. Value is judged against each company's own sector, so a Value score is a statement about a company relative to its own industry rather than to the other name here. A wide Value gap usually means the market already prices the difference in quality or growth — which is the trade-off this comparison comes down to.
Common questions
Is GMED or BSX the better stock?
GMED scores higher: GMED 80.5, BSX 71.4 out of 100 on the Bull Rankings quality-growth score, which blends business quality, growth and valuation into one number. A higher score means a stronger business at a more reasonable price — it is not a price target or a recommendation.
Where do GMED and BSX differ most?
The widest gap is value, where GMED leads by 12 points on the 0–100 pillar scale. GMED leads all three pillars, so the gap is broad rather than a single-measure difference.
How are GMED and BSX scored?
Each carries the same 0–100 quality-growth score used everywhere on the site, built from three pillars — quality (profitability and returns on capital), growth (revenue and earnings), and value (what you pay for them) — combined as a geometric mean, so a weak pillar cannot be papered over by a strong one.
How current is this comparison?
The whole universe is re-scored every trading day after the US market close, so the scores and fundamentals here reflect the latest published edition.