INO vs. CERS, AORT, CATX, SILK, ATRI, KIDS, EMBC, FNA, SRDX, and PLSE
Should you be buying Inovio Pharmaceuticals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Inovio Pharmaceuticals include Cerus (CERS), Artivion (AORT), Perspective Therapeutics (CATX), Silk Road Medical (SILK), Atrion (ATRI), OrthoPediatrics (KIDS), Embecta (EMBC), Paragon 28 (FNA), Surmodics (SRDX), and Pulse Biosciences (PLSE). These companies are all part of the "surgical & medical instruments" industry.
Inovio Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:INO) and Cerus (NASDAQ:CERS) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, dividends, profitability and media sentiment.
Inovio Pharmaceuticals presently has a consensus price target of $70.67, indicating a potential upside of 597.60%. Cerus has a consensus price target of $3.83, indicating a potential upside of 114.15%. Given Inovio Pharmaceuticals' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Inovio Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than Cerus.
Cerus has higher revenue and earnings than Inovio Pharmaceuticals.
Cerus has a net margin of -19.27% compared to Inovio Pharmaceuticals' net margin of -16,238.91%. Cerus' return on equity of -58.65% beat Inovio Pharmaceuticals' return on equity.
Inovio Pharmaceuticals received 149 more outperform votes than Cerus when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.26% of users gave Cerus an outperform vote while only 71.49% of users gave Inovio Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote.
Inovio Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 1.16, indicating that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cerus has a beta of 1.31, indicating that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.
26.8% of Inovio Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.4% of Cerus shares are held by institutional investors. 2.5% of Inovio Pharmaceuticals shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of Cerus shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Inovio Pharmaceuticals had 3 more articles in the media than Cerus. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Inovio Pharmaceuticals and 3 mentions for Cerus. Cerus' average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat Inovio Pharmaceuticals' score of -0.13 indicating that Cerus is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Cerus beats Inovio Pharmaceuticals on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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