OABI vs. NRC, MXCT, ABSI, CORS, DTRT, LUNA, DSAQ, GWII, WRAC, and NOTV
Should you be buying OmniAb stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of OmniAb include National Research (NRC), MaxCyte (MXCT), Absci (ABSI), Corsair Partnering (CORS), DTRT Health Acquisition (DTRT), Luna Innovations (LUNA), Direct Selling Acquisition (DSAQ), Good Works II Acquisition (GWII), Williams Rowland Acquisition (WRAC), and Inotiv (NOTV).
National Research (NASDAQ:NRC) and OmniAb (NASDAQ:OABI) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, community ranking, earnings, profitability, valuation, dividends and institutional ownership.
National Research received 93 more outperform votes than OmniAb when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave OmniAb an outperform vote while only 61.67% of users gave National Research an outperform vote.
National Research has a beta of 0.45, indicating that its stock price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, OmniAb has a beta of -0.08, indicating that its stock price is 108% less volatile than the S&P 500.
OmniAb has a consensus target price of $9.00, suggesting a potential upside of 107.37%. Given National Research's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe OmniAb is more favorable than National Research.
National Research has a net margin of 20.60% compared to National Research's net margin of -301.62%. OmniAb's return on equity of 54.83% beat National Research's return on equity.
47.3% of National Research shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.1% of OmniAb shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of National Research shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.6% of OmniAb shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
National Research has higher revenue and earnings than OmniAb. OmniAb is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than National Research, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, OmniAb had 4 more articles in the media than National Research. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for OmniAb and 2 mentions for National Research. National Research's average media sentiment score of 1.36 beat OmniAb's score of 0.59 indicating that OmniAb is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
National Research beats OmniAb on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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