IBRX vs. IOVA, TGTX, SANA, HRMY, NBIX, TECH, QGEN, RGEN, PCVX, and RVMD
Should you be buying ImmunityBio stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ImmunityBio include Iovance Biotherapeutics (IOVA), TG Therapeutics (TGTX), Sana Biotechnology (SANA), Harmony Biosciences (HRMY), Neurocrine Biosciences (NBIX), Bio-Techne (TECH), Qiagen (QGEN), Repligen (RGEN), Vaxcyte (PCVX), and Revolution Medicines (RVMD). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
ImmunityBio (NASDAQ:IBRX) and Iovance Biotherapeutics (NASDAQ:IOVA) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings and dividends.
8.6% of ImmunityBio shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.0% of Iovance Biotherapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. 83.4% of ImmunityBio shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 10.4% of Iovance Biotherapeutics shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Iovance Biotherapeutics has higher revenue and earnings than ImmunityBio. ImmunityBio is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Iovance Biotherapeutics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ImmunityBio currently has a consensus target price of $6.00, indicating a potential downside of 6.54%. Iovance Biotherapeutics has a consensus target price of $24.64, indicating a potential upside of 177.44%. Given Iovance Biotherapeutics' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Iovance Biotherapeutics is more favorable than ImmunityBio.
Iovance Biotherapeutics has a net margin of -23,615.70% compared to ImmunityBio's net margin of -198,994.05%. ImmunityBio's return on equity of 0.00% beat Iovance Biotherapeutics' return on equity.
ImmunityBio has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Iovance Biotherapeutics has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Iovance Biotherapeutics received 557 more outperform votes than ImmunityBio when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.57% of users gave Iovance Biotherapeutics an outperform vote while only 13.04% of users gave ImmunityBio an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Iovance Biotherapeutics had 5 more articles in the media than ImmunityBio. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Iovance Biotherapeutics and 3 mentions for ImmunityBio. ImmunityBio's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Iovance Biotherapeutics' score of 0.69 indicating that ImmunityBio is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Iovance Biotherapeutics beats ImmunityBio on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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