ATRA vs. ALVR, CRTX, SGMO, SLDB, PSTX, AGEN, BDTX, CRBU, ADAP, and IPSC
Should you be buying Atara Biotherapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Atara Biotherapeutics include AlloVir (ALVR), Cortexyme (CRTX), Sangamo Therapeutics (SGMO), Solid Biosciences (SLDB), Poseida Therapeutics (PSTX), Agenus (AGEN), Black Diamond Therapeutics (BDTX), Caribou Biosciences (CRBU), Adaptimmune Therapeutics (ADAP), and Century Therapeutics (IPSC). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
AlloVir (NASDAQ:ALVR) and Atara Biotherapeutics (NASDAQ:ATRA) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, valuation, dividends and media sentiment.
AlloVir has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Atara Biotherapeutics has a beta of 0.7, indicating that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.
AlloVir presently has a consensus target price of $18.50, suggesting a potential upside of 2,350.66%. Atara Biotherapeutics has a consensus target price of $28.00, suggesting a potential upside of 4,891.98%. Given AlloVir's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Atara Biotherapeutics is more favorable than AlloVir.
66.1% of AlloVir shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.9% of Atara Biotherapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. 33.9% of AlloVir shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of Atara Biotherapeutics shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
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.
In the previous week, AlloVir and AlloVir both had 3 articles in the media. Atara Biotherapeutics' average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat AlloVir's score of 0.97 indicating that AlloVir is being referred to more favorably in the media.
AlloVir has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.
Summary
AlloVir beats Atara Biotherapeutics on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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