EDIT vs. ADVM, CLLS, RGNX, SGMO, BLUE, NMRA, VIR, TARS, BCRX, and CGEM
Should you be buying Editas Medicine stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Editas Medicine include Adverum Biotechnologies (ADVM), Cellectis (CLLS), REGENXBIO (RGNX), Sangamo Therapeutics (SGMO), bluebird bio (BLUE), Neumora Therapeutics (NMRA), Vir Biotechnology (VIR), Tarsus Pharmaceuticals (TARS), BioCryst Pharmaceuticals (BCRX), and Cullinan Therapeutics (CGEM). These companies are all part of the "biological products, except diagnostic" industry.
Adverum Biotechnologies (NASDAQ:ADVM) and Editas Medicine (NASDAQ:EDIT) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk and dividends.
Adverum Biotechnologies received 62 more outperform votes than Editas Medicine when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.87% of users gave Adverum Biotechnologies an outperform vote while only 53.74% of users gave Editas Medicine an outperform vote.
Adverum Biotechnologies presently has a consensus target price of $29.00, indicating a potential upside of 266.16%. Editas Medicine has a consensus target price of $13.27, indicating a potential upside of 155.24%. Given Editas Medicine's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Adverum Biotechnologies is more favorable than Editas Medicine.
Adverum Biotechnologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Editas Medicine. Editas Medicine is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Adverum Biotechnologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Adverum Biotechnologies has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Adverum Biotechnologies' net margin of -239.36%. Adverum Biotechnologies' return on equity of -47.34% beat Editas Medicine's return on equity.
48.2% of Adverum Biotechnologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.9% of Editas Medicine shares are held by institutional investors. 4.2% of Adverum Biotechnologies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of Editas Medicine shares are held by company 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.
Adverum Biotechnologies has a beta of 0.89, suggesting that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Editas Medicine has a beta of 2.09, suggesting that its stock price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Editas Medicine had 3 more articles in the media than Adverum Biotechnologies. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Editas Medicine and 7 mentions for Adverum Biotechnologies. Editas Medicine's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Adverum Biotechnologies' score of -0.05 indicating that Adverum Biotechnologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Adverum Biotechnologies beats Editas Medicine on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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