FLGC vs. OCC, CELU, RPHM, THTX, MURA, AEON, CARM, IMMX, ANEB, and RMTI
Should you be buying Flora Growth stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Flora Growth include Optical Cable (OCC), Celularity (CELU), Reneo Pharmaceuticals (RPHM), Theratechnologies (THTX), Mural Oncology (MURA), AEON Biopharma (AEON), Carisma Therapeutics (CARM), Immix Biopharma (IMMX), Anebulo Pharmaceuticals (ANEB), and Rockwell Medical (RMTI).
Flora Growth (NASDAQ:FLGC) and Optical Cable (NASDAQ:OCC) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, risk, earnings, community ranking and profitability.
Flora Growth has a beta of 2, meaning that its share price is 100% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Optical Cable has a beta of 0.49, meaning that its share price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Flora Growth currently has a consensus price target of $6.00, indicating a potential upside of 421.74%. Given Flora Growth's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Flora Growth is more favorable than Optical Cable.
Optical Cable has a net margin of -0.24% compared to Flora Growth's net margin of -75.95%. Optical Cable's return on equity of -6.09% beat Flora Growth's return on equity.
In the previous week, Flora Growth had 1 more articles in the media than Optical Cable. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Flora Growth and 2 mentions for Optical Cable. Optical Cable's average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat Flora Growth's score of 0.63 indicating that Optical Cable is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
36.0% of Flora Growth shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.6% of Optical Cable shares are held by institutional investors. 17.6% of Flora Growth shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 23.0% of Optical Cable shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Optical Cable received 90 more outperform votes than Flora Growth when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.60% of users gave Optical Cable an outperform vote while only 60.87% of users gave Flora Growth an outperform vote.
Optical Cable has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Flora Growth.
Summary
Optical Cable beats Flora Growth on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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