TSHA vs. NK, BCRX, VXRT, ATHA, PASG, TWST, ACLX, NVAX, APGE, and ADMA
Should you be buying Taysha Gene Therapies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Taysha Gene Therapies include NantKwest (NK), BioCryst Pharmaceuticals (BCRX), Vaxart (VXRT), Athira Pharma (ATHA), Passage Bio (PASG), Twist Bioscience (TWST), Arcellx (ACLX), Novavax (NVAX), Apogee Therapeutics (APGE), and ADMA Biologics (ADMA). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
NantKwest (NASDAQ:NK) and Taysha Gene Therapies (NASDAQ:TSHA) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership and profitability.
In the previous week, Taysha Gene Therapies had 4 more articles in the media than NantKwest. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Taysha Gene Therapies and 0 mentions for NantKwest. NantKwest's average media sentiment score of 0.41 beat Taysha Gene Therapies' score of 0.00 indicating that Taysha Gene Therapies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Taysha Gene Therapies has a consensus price target of $7.00, indicating a potential upside of 77.22%. Given NantKwest's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Taysha Gene Therapies is more favorable than NantKwest.
NantKwest has a beta of 2.61, indicating that its stock price is 161% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Taysha Gene Therapies has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Taysha Gene Therapies has a net margin of -833.60% compared to Taysha Gene Therapies' net margin of -76,658.58%. Taysha Gene Therapies' return on equity of -56.06% beat NantKwest's return on equity.
NantKwest has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Taysha Gene Therapies. NantKwest is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Taysha Gene Therapies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
9.4% of NantKwest shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.7% of Taysha Gene Therapies shares are held by institutional investors. 71.7% of NantKwest shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Taysha Gene Therapies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
NantKwest received 184 more outperform votes than Taysha Gene Therapies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 74.17% of users gave Taysha Gene Therapies an outperform vote while only 53.22% of users gave NantKwest an outperform vote.
Summary
Taysha Gene Therapies beats NantKwest on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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