BNGO vs. HBIO, SEER, AKYA, PRE, RPID, AXDX, OMIC, ASTC, TLIS, and HLTH
Should you be buying Bionano Genomics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bionano Genomics include Harvard Bioscience (HBIO), Seer (SEER), Akoya Biosciences (AKYA), Prenetics Global (PRE), Rapid Micro Biosystems (RPID), Accelerate Diagnostics (AXDX), Singular Genomics Systems (OMIC), Astrotech (ASTC), Talis Biomedical (TLIS), and Cue Health (HLTH). These companies are all part of the "analytical instruments" industry.
Harvard Bioscience (NASDAQ:HBIO) and Bionano Genomics (NASDAQ:BNGO) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, dividends and valuation.
Harvard Bioscience has a beta of 1.45, suggesting that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bionano Genomics has a beta of 2.4, suggesting that its share price is 140% more volatile than the S&P 500.
80.9% of Harvard Bioscience shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.4% of Bionano Genomics shares are held by institutional investors. 9.0% of Harvard Bioscience shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Bionano Genomics shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Harvard Bioscience had 11 more articles in the media than Bionano Genomics. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Harvard Bioscience and 3 mentions for Bionano Genomics. Harvard Bioscience's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Bionano Genomics' score of 0.15 indicating that Bionano Genomics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Harvard Bioscience has a net margin of -8.18% compared to Harvard Bioscience's net margin of -605.26%. Bionano Genomics' return on equity of 0.26% beat Harvard Bioscience's return on equity.
Harvard Bioscience has higher revenue and earnings than Bionano Genomics. Harvard Bioscience is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bionano Genomics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Harvard Bioscience received 206 more outperform votes than Bionano Genomics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.02% of users gave Harvard Bioscience an outperform vote while only 64.80% of users gave Bionano Genomics an outperform vote.
Bionano Genomics has a consensus price target of $4.00, suggesting a potential upside of 313.22%. Given Harvard Bioscience's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Bionano Genomics is more favorable than Harvard Bioscience.
Summary
Harvard Bioscience beats Bionano Genomics on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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