VCYT vs. GTH, BNR, PSNL, RDNT, GH, FTRE, CDNA, VRDN, CSTL, and FLGT
Should you be buying Veracyte stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Veracyte include Genetron (GTH), Burning Rock Biotech (BNR), Personalis (PSNL), RadNet (RDNT), Guardant Health (GH), Fortrea (FTRE), CareDx (CDNA), Viridian Therapeutics (VRDN), Castle Biosciences (CSTL), and Fulgent Genetics (FLGT).
Veracyte (NASDAQ:VCYT) and Genetron (NASDAQ:GTH) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Genetron has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Veracyte's net margin of -18.16%. Genetron's return on equity of 0.00% beat Veracyte's return on equity.
10.7% of Genetron shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of Veracyte shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Veracyte has a beta of 1.65, meaning that its share price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Genetron has a beta of 0.51, meaning that its share price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Veracyte has higher revenue and earnings than Genetron.
In the previous week, Veracyte had 6 more articles in the media than Genetron. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Veracyte and 0 mentions for Genetron. Veracyte's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Genetron's score of 0.00 indicating that Veracyte is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Veracyte received 429 more outperform votes than Genetron when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.93% of users gave Veracyte an outperform vote while only 33.33% of users gave Genetron an outperform vote.
Veracyte currently has a consensus target price of $27.50, suggesting a potential upside of 32.53%. Given Veracyte's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Veracyte is more favorable than Genetron.
Summary
Veracyte beats Genetron on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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