CCCC vs. ALEC, CGEN, NRIX, NMRA, DNA, VIR, CGEM, TARS, FDMT, and BCRX
Should you be buying C4 Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of C4 Therapeutics include Alector (ALEC), Compugen (CGEN), Nurix Therapeutics (NRIX), Neumora Therapeutics (NMRA), Ginkgo Bioworks (DNA), Vir Biotechnology (VIR), Cullinan Therapeutics (CGEM), Tarsus Pharmaceuticals (TARS), 4D Molecular Therapeutics (FDMT), and BioCryst Pharmaceuticals (BCRX). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
C4 Therapeutics (NASDAQ:CCCC) and Alector (NASDAQ:ALEC) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation and risk.
78.8% of C4 Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.8% of Alector shares are held by institutional investors. 8.0% of C4 Therapeutics shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 9.1% of Alector shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
C4 Therapeutics has a beta of 3.22, meaning that its stock price is 222% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alector has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Alector received 121 more outperform votes than C4 Therapeutics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.58% of users gave Alector an outperform vote while only 37.88% of users gave C4 Therapeutics an outperform vote.
In the previous week, C4 Therapeutics and C4 Therapeutics both had 3 articles in the media. Alector's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat C4 Therapeutics' score of 0.94 indicating that Alector is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Alector has a net margin of -125.11% compared to C4 Therapeutics' net margin of -629.24%. C4 Therapeutics' return on equity of -52.85% beat Alector's return on equity.
C4 Therapeutics presently has a consensus target price of $10.13, suggesting a potential upside of 102.50%. Alector has a consensus target price of $14.00, suggesting a potential upside of 184.55%. Given Alector's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Alector is more favorable than C4 Therapeutics.
Alector has higher revenue and earnings than C4 Therapeutics. Alector is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than C4 Therapeutics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Alector beats C4 Therapeutics on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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