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Avacta Group (AVCT) Competitors

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GBX 46.61 +2.36 (+5.33%)
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AVCT vs. SLN, OXB, PRTC, HZD, VRP, BVXP, ARIX, 4BB, HVO, and FARN

Should you be buying Avacta Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Avacta Group include Silence Therapeutics (SLN), Oxford Biomedica (OXB), PureTech Health (PRTC), Horizon Discovery Group plc (HZD.L) (HZD), Verona Pharma plc (VRP.L) (VRP), Bioventix (BVXP), Arix Bioscience (ARIX), 4basebio (4BB), hVIVO (HVO), and Faron Pharmaceuticals Oy (FARN). These companies are all part of the "biotechnology" industry.

Avacta Group vs.

Silence Therapeutics (LON:SLN) and Avacta Group (LON:AVCT) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership and community ranking.

Silence Therapeutics has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Avacta Group's net margin of -114.45%. Silence Therapeutics' return on equity of 0.00% beat Avacta Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Silence TherapeuticsN/A N/A N/A
Avacta Group -114.45%-73.02%-21.80%

Avacta Group received 9 more outperform votes than Silence Therapeutics when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.81% of users gave Silence Therapeutics an outperform vote while only 67.30% of users gave Avacta Group an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Silence TherapeuticsOutperform Votes
203
68.81%
Underperform Votes
92
31.19%
Avacta GroupOutperform Votes
212
67.30%
Underperform Votes
103
32.70%

Silence Therapeutics has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Avacta Group. Avacta Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Silence Therapeutics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Silence Therapeutics£11.35M42.34N/A-£48.60-11.01
Avacta Group£22.62M7.33-£25.89M-£0.09-514.44

In the previous week, Silence Therapeutics had 3 more articles in the media than Avacta Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Silence Therapeutics and 0 mentions for Avacta Group. Avacta Group's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Silence Therapeutics' score of 0.67 indicating that Avacta Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Silence Therapeutics Positive
Avacta Group Positive

10.2% of Avacta Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 32.9% of Avacta Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Silence Therapeutics beats Avacta Group on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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AVCT vs. The Competition

MetricAvacta GroupBiotechnology IndustryMedical SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£165.89M£164.72M£5.03B£1.38B
Dividend Yield3.97%3.25%5.16%11.73%
P/E Ratio-514.44329.48135.411,551.05
Price / Sales7.3314,950.821,160.97212,243.28
Price / Cash15.0011.6733.5332.93
Price / Book3.317.114.672.81
Net Income-£25.89M-£18.52M£119.07M£152.70M
7 Day Performance-0.43%-0.29%-1.83%-0.34%
1 Month Performance-27.54%8.30%-3.60%7.29%
1 Year Performance-64.92%26.25%31.66%91.93%

Avacta Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
AVCT
Avacta Group
N/AGBX 46.61
+5.3%
N/A-67.2%£167.00M£22.62M-517.89120News Coverage
Positive News
SLN
Silence Therapeutics
N/AGBX 535
-0.9%
N/AN/A£480.35M£11.35M-11.01100High Trading Volume
OXB
Oxford Biomedica
0.9962 of 5 stars
GBX 412.50
flat
GBX 433.33
+5.1%
+113.7%£434.61M£97.28M-287.15891Gap Down
High Trading Volume
PRTC
PureTech Health
N/AGBX 162
+0.1%
N/A-5.6%£387.86M£3.33M-702.61300
HZD
Horizon Discovery Group plc (HZD.L)
N/AGBX 184.50
flat
N/AN/A£302.98M£54.63M-33.55416
VRP
Verona Pharma plc (VRP.L)
N/AGBX 55
+5.8%
N/A+0.0%£228MN/A-1.6822Gap Up
BVXP
Bioventix
N/AGBX 3,710
-1.1%
N/A-5.2%£193.66M£13.60M2,298.1612
ARIX
Arix Bioscience
N/AGBX 142
flat
N/A+29.1%£183.73M£14.16M1,290.919
4BB
4basebio
N/AGBX 1,310
+0.8%
N/A+146.8%£167.81M£311,000.00-1,666.67101Insider Trade
News Coverage
HVO
hVIVO
N/AGBX 22.95
+3.8%
N/AN/A£156.15M£67.21M724.17N/ANews Coverage
FARN
Faron Pharmaceuticals Oy
N/AGBX 143.50
-2.7%
N/A-44.3%£150.13M£-725,000.00-462.5034

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This page (LON:AVCT) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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