CRSP vs. MNTA, NVAX, ALLO, FATE, ADVM, NBIX, TECH, QGEN, RGEN, and PCVX
Should you be buying CRISPR Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CRISPR Therapeutics include Momenta Pharmaceuticals (MNTA), Novavax (NVAX), Allogene Therapeutics (ALLO), Fate Therapeutics (FATE), Adverum Biotechnologies (ADVM), Neurocrine Biosciences (NBIX), Bio-Techne (TECH), Qiagen (QGEN), Repligen (RGEN), and Vaxcyte (PCVX). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Momenta Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:MNTA) and CRISPR Therapeutics (NASDAQ:CRSP) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, risk, dividends and earnings.
Momenta Pharmaceuticals received 108 more outperform votes than CRISPR Therapeutics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.59% of users gave Momenta Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 65.43% of users gave CRISPR Therapeutics an outperform vote.
CRISPR Therapeutics has a consensus target price of $73.46, suggesting a potential upside of 36.70%. Given Momenta Pharmaceuticals' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe CRISPR Therapeutics is more favorable than Momenta Pharmaceuticals.
In the previous week, CRISPR Therapeutics had 20 more articles in the media than Momenta Pharmaceuticals. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for CRISPR Therapeutics and 0 mentions for Momenta Pharmaceuticals. Momenta Pharmaceuticals' average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat CRISPR Therapeutics' score of 0.00 indicating that CRISPR Therapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
69.2% of CRISPR Therapeutics shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.4% of Momenta Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.1% of CRISPR Therapeutics shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Momenta Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 1.71, meaning that its stock price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CRISPR Therapeutics has a beta of 1.8, meaning that its stock price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500.
CRISPR Therapeutics has higher revenue and earnings than Momenta Pharmaceuticals. CRISPR Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Momenta Pharmaceuticals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CRISPR Therapeutics has a net margin of 0.00% compared to CRISPR Therapeutics' net margin of -757.61%. Momenta Pharmaceuticals' return on equity of -11.56% beat CRISPR Therapeutics' return on equity.
Summary
CRISPR Therapeutics beats Momenta Pharmaceuticals on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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