ABIO vs. ACHV, TKNO, VNRX, ICCC, AWH, OCX, CDIO, TRIB, BMRA, and MYMD
Should you be buying ARCA biopharma stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ARCA biopharma include Achieve Life Sciences (ACHV), Alpha Teknova (TKNO), VolitionRx (VNRX), ImmuCell (ICCC), Aspira Women's Health (AWH), OncoCyte (OCX), Cardio Diagnostics (CDIO), Trinity Biotech (TRIB), Biomerica (BMRA), and MyMD Pharmaceuticals (MYMD). These companies are all part of the "diagnostic substances" industry.
ARCA biopharma (NASDAQ:ABIO) and Achieve Life Sciences (NASDAQ:ACHV) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
56.4% of ARCA biopharma shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.5% of Achieve Life Sciences shares are owned by institutional investors. 30.9% of ARCA biopharma shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Achieve Life Sciences shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
ARCA biopharma is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Achieve Life Sciences, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Achieve Life Sciences had 4 more articles in the media than ARCA biopharma. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Achieve Life Sciences and 2 mentions for ARCA biopharma. ARCA biopharma's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Achieve Life Sciences' score of 0.72 indicating that ARCA biopharma is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Achieve Life Sciences received 207 more outperform votes than ARCA biopharma when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.21% of users gave Achieve Life Sciences an outperform vote while only 41.98% of users gave ARCA biopharma an outperform vote.
ARCA biopharma has a beta of 0.89, suggesting that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Achieve Life Sciences has a beta of 1.26, suggesting that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Achieve Life Sciences has a consensus target price of $14.00, indicating a potential upside of 157.35%. Given Achieve Life Sciences' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Achieve Life Sciences is more favorable than ARCA biopharma.
ARCA biopharma's return on equity of -16.08% beat Achieve Life Sciences' return on equity.
Summary
ARCA biopharma and Achieve Life Sciences tied by winning 7 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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