BCAB vs. BDTX, GNFT, CADL, CRBU, IPSC, MGX, ZURA, ELEV, IVVD, and CHRS
Should you be buying BioAtla stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BioAtla include Black Diamond Therapeutics (BDTX), Genfit (GNFT), Candel Therapeutics (CADL), Caribou Biosciences (CRBU), Century Therapeutics (IPSC), Metagenomi (MGX), Zura Bio (ZURA), Elevation Oncology (ELEV), Invivyd (IVVD), and Coherus BioSciences (CHRS). These companies are all part of the "biological products, except diagnostic" industry.
Black Diamond Therapeutics (NASDAQ:BDTX) and BioAtla (NASDAQ:BCAB) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, risk and institutional ownership.
95.5% of Black Diamond Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.2% of BioAtla shares are held by institutional investors. 8.9% of Black Diamond Therapeutics shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.5% of BioAtla 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.
Black Diamond Therapeutics has a beta of 2.56, suggesting that its share price is 156% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BioAtla has a beta of 1.23, suggesting that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.
BioAtla's return on equity of -72.94% beat Black Diamond Therapeutics' return on equity.
Black Diamond Therapeutics received 15 more outperform votes than BioAtla when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.57% of users gave BioAtla an outperform vote while only 63.93% of users gave Black Diamond Therapeutics an outperform vote.
Black Diamond Therapeutics has higher earnings, but lower revenue than BioAtla. Black Diamond Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BioAtla, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Black Diamond Therapeutics currently has a consensus price target of $12.00, suggesting a potential upside of 151.05%. BioAtla has a consensus price target of $8.67, suggesting a potential upside of 473.95%. Given Black Diamond Therapeutics' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe BioAtla is more favorable than Black Diamond Therapeutics.
In the previous week, Black Diamond Therapeutics had 1 more articles in the media than BioAtla. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Black Diamond Therapeutics and 2 mentions for BioAtla. Black Diamond Therapeutics' average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat BioAtla's score of 0.64 indicating that BioAtla is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Black Diamond Therapeutics beats BioAtla on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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