BLUE vs. SGMO, ALVR, FATE, CCCC, JSPR, TNYA, AURA, TRML, MGTX, and STRO
Should you be buying bluebird bio stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of bluebird bio include Sangamo Therapeutics (SGMO), AlloVir (ALVR), Fate Therapeutics (FATE), C4 Therapeutics (CCCC), Jasper Therapeutics (JSPR), Tenaya Therapeutics (TNYA), Aura Biosciences (AURA), Tourmaline Bio (TRML), MeiraGTx (MGTX), and Sutro Biopharma (STRO). These companies are all part of the "biological products, except diagnostic" industry.
bluebird bio (NASDAQ:BLUE) and Sangamo Therapeutics (NASDAQ:SGMO) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, risk and analyst recommendations.
Sangamo Therapeutics has higher revenue and earnings than bluebird bio. bluebird bio is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sangamo Therapeutics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
87.4% of bluebird bio shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.9% of Sangamo Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. 2.1% of bluebird bio shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Sangamo Therapeutics shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
bluebird bio has a net margin of -419.64% compared to Sangamo Therapeutics' net margin of -1,749.06%. bluebird bio's return on equity of -34.32% beat Sangamo Therapeutics' return on equity.
bluebird bio received 596 more outperform votes than Sangamo Therapeutics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.78% of users gave bluebird bio an outperform vote while only 62.71% of users gave Sangamo Therapeutics an outperform vote.
In the previous week, bluebird bio had 7 more articles in the media than Sangamo Therapeutics. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for bluebird bio and 3 mentions for Sangamo Therapeutics. Sangamo Therapeutics' average media sentiment score of 1.45 beat bluebird bio's score of 0.56 indicating that Sangamo Therapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
bluebird bio presently has a consensus price target of $5.74, indicating a potential upside of 511.05%. Sangamo Therapeutics has a consensus price target of $5.67, indicating a potential upside of 812.07%. Given Sangamo Therapeutics' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Sangamo Therapeutics is more favorable than bluebird bio.
bluebird bio has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sangamo Therapeutics has a beta of 1.4, meaning that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
bluebird bio beats Sangamo Therapeutics on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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