GRTS vs. ATRA, BLUE, CLLS, REPL, TNYA, MGTX, SLDB, PSTX, ADAP, and BDTX
Should you be buying Gritstone bio stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gritstone bio include Atara Biotherapeutics (ATRA), bluebird bio (BLUE), Cellectis (CLLS), Replimune Group (REPL), Tenaya Therapeutics (TNYA), MeiraGTx (MGTX), Solid Biosciences (SLDB), Poseida Therapeutics (PSTX), Adaptimmune Therapeutics (ADAP), and Black Diamond Therapeutics (BDTX). These companies are all part of the "biological products, except diagnostic" industry.
Atara Biotherapeutics (NASDAQ:ATRA) and Gritstone bio (NASDAQ:GRTS) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
Gritstone bio has higher revenue and earnings than Atara Biotherapeutics. Gritstone bio is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Atara Biotherapeutics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Atara Biotherapeutics currently has a consensus target price of $28.00, indicating a potential upside of 4,891.98%. Gritstone bio has a consensus target price of $4.75, indicating a potential upside of 513.93%. Given Gritstone bio's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Atara Biotherapeutics is more favorable than Gritstone bio.
70.9% of Atara Biotherapeutics shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.5% of Gritstone bio shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.7% of Atara Biotherapeutics shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.6% of Gritstone bio 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.
Atara Biotherapeutics has a net margin of -671.70% compared to Atara Biotherapeutics' net margin of -926.13%. Atara Biotherapeutics' return on equity of -232.42% beat Gritstone bio's return on equity.
Atara Biotherapeutics has a beta of 0.7, suggesting that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gritstone bio has a beta of 0.64, suggesting that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Atara Biotherapeutics and Atara Biotherapeutics both had 4 articles in the media. Gritstone bio's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Atara Biotherapeutics' score of 0.72 indicating that Atara Biotherapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Atara Biotherapeutics received 288 more outperform votes than Gritstone bio when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.46% of users gave Gritstone bio an outperform vote while only 67.56% of users gave Atara Biotherapeutics an outperform vote.
Summary
Gritstone bio beats Atara Biotherapeutics on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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