CRON vs. TLRY, USNA, CGC, MNMD, BTMD, ACB, CDXC, MDWD, FTLF, and BGXX
Should you be buying Cronos Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cronos Group include Tilray (TLRY), USANA Health Sciences (USNA), Canopy Growth (CGC), Mind Medicine (MindMed) (MNMD), biote (BTMD), Aurora Cannabis (ACB), ChromaDex (CDXC), MediWound (MDWD), FitLife Brands (FTLF), and Bright Green (BGXX). These companies are all part of the "medicinals & botanicals" industry.
Cronos Group (NASDAQ:CRON) and Tilray (NASDAQ:TLRY) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, risk, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.
Cronos Group has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tilray has a beta of 2.36, indicating that its share price is 136% more volatile than the S&P 500.
8.7% of Cronos Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.4% of Tilray shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.9% of Cronos Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Tilray shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Tilray had 4 more articles in the media than Cronos Group. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Tilray and 8 mentions for Cronos Group. Tilray's average media sentiment score of 0.31 beat Cronos Group's score of 0.23 indicating that Tilray is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Cronos Group received 17 more outperform votes than Tilray when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.13% of users gave Cronos Group an outperform vote while only 59.28% of users gave Tilray an outperform vote.
Tilray has a net margin of -43.98% compared to Cronos Group's net margin of -61.31%. Tilray's return on equity of -2.68% beat Cronos Group's return on equity.
Cronos Group currently has a consensus price target of $3.00, suggesting a potential upside of 15.83%. Tilray has a consensus price target of $2.71, suggesting a potential upside of 50.46%. Given Tilray's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Tilray is more favorable than Cronos Group.
Cronos Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Tilray. Cronos Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tilray, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Tilray beats Cronos Group on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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