CELC vs. RNLX, XGN, DMTK, VCYT, CDNA, VRDN, CSTL, FLGT, SERA, and BDSX
Should you be buying Celcuity stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Celcuity include Renalytix (RNLX), Exagen (XGN), DermTech (DMTK), Veracyte (VCYT), CareDx (CDNA), Viridian Therapeutics (VRDN), Castle Biosciences (CSTL), Fulgent Genetics (FLGT), Sera Prognostics (SERA), and Biodesix (BDSX). These companies are all part of the "medical laboratories" industry.
Renalytix (NASDAQ:RNLX) and Celcuity (NASDAQ:CELC) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, valuation and profitability.
Renalytix presently has a consensus price target of $5.00, suggesting a potential upside of 1,105.40%. Celcuity has a consensus price target of $29.25, suggesting a potential upside of 85.13%. Given Celcuity's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Renalytix is more favorable than Celcuity.
Renalytix has higher revenue and earnings than Celcuity. Celcuity is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Renalytix, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
9.9% of Renalytix shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.3% of Celcuity shares are held by institutional investors. 18.3% of Renalytix shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 24.3% of Celcuity shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Celcuity has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Celcuity's net margin of -1,687.80%. Renalytix's return on equity of -61.66% beat Celcuity's return on equity.
Renalytix has a beta of 3.05, indicating that its share price is 205% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Celcuity has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Celcuity received 320 more outperform votes than Renalytix when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.94% of users gave Celcuity an outperform vote while only 32.00% of users gave Renalytix an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Celcuity had 5 more articles in the media than Renalytix. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Celcuity and 2 mentions for Renalytix. Celcuity's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Renalytix's score of 0.24 indicating that Renalytix is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Celcuity beats Renalytix on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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