ATRA vs. ALVR, CRTX, SGMO, SLDB, PSTX, AGEN, BDTX, CRBU, ADAP, and IPSC
Should you be buying Atara Biotherapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Atara Biotherapeutics include AlloVir (ALVR), Cortexyme (CRTX), Sangamo Therapeutics (SGMO), Solid Biosciences (SLDB), Poseida Therapeutics (PSTX), Agenus (AGEN), Black Diamond Therapeutics (BDTX), Caribou Biosciences (CRBU), Adaptimmune Therapeutics (ADAP), and Century Therapeutics (IPSC). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Atara Biotherapeutics (NASDAQ:ATRA) and AlloVir (NASDAQ:ALVR) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership and community ranking.
In the previous week, Atara Biotherapeutics had 2 more articles in the media than AlloVir. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Atara Biotherapeutics and 2 mentions for AlloVir. AlloVir's average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat Atara Biotherapeutics' score of 0.99 indicating that AlloVir is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Atara Biotherapeutics has a beta of 0.7, meaning that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AlloVir has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
AlloVir has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Atara Biotherapeutics. AlloVir is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Atara Biotherapeutics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
70.9% of Atara Biotherapeutics shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.1% of AlloVir shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.7% of Atara Biotherapeutics shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 33.9% of AlloVir shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Atara Biotherapeutics received 402 more outperform votes than AlloVir when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.56% of users gave Atara Biotherapeutics an outperform vote while only 57.45% of users gave AlloVir an outperform vote.
Atara Biotherapeutics currently has a consensus target price of $28.00, suggesting a potential upside of 4,891.98%. AlloVir has a consensus target price of $18.50, suggesting a potential upside of 2,350.66%. Given Atara Biotherapeutics' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Atara Biotherapeutics is more favorable than AlloVir.
AlloVir has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Atara Biotherapeutics' net margin of -671.70%. AlloVir's return on equity of -98.50% beat Atara Biotherapeutics' return on equity.
Summary
AlloVir beats Atara Biotherapeutics on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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