ALVR vs. ATRA, BLUE, AVXL, STRO, MGTX, TNYA, SOPH, AGEN, REPL, and SLDB
Should you be buying AlloVir stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AlloVir include Atara Biotherapeutics (ATRA), bluebird bio (BLUE), Anavex Life Sciences (AVXL), Sutro Biopharma (STRO), MeiraGTx (MGTX), Tenaya Therapeutics (TNYA), SOPHiA GENETICS (SOPH), Agenus (AGEN), Replimune Group (REPL), and Solid Biosciences (SLDB). These companies are all part of the "biological products, except diagnostic" industry.
Atara Biotherapeutics (NASDAQ:ATRA) and AlloVir (NASDAQ:ALVR) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk and media sentiment.
Atara Biotherapeutics has a beta of 0.7, suggesting that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AlloVir has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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 AlloVir's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Atara Biotherapeutics is more favorable than AlloVir.
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 endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
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. Atara Biotherapeutics' average media sentiment score of 1.59 beat AlloVir's score of 0.99 indicating that AlloVir is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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.
AlloVir has a net margin of 0.00% compared to AlloVir's net margin of -671.70%. Atara Biotherapeutics' return on equity of -98.50% beat AlloVir's return on equity.
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.
Summary
AlloVir beats Atara Biotherapeutics on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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