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Editas Medicine (EDIT) Competitors

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$2.44 +0.07 (+2.95%)
(As of 11/22/2024 ET)

EDIT vs. ADVM, CLLS, BLUE, DTIL, SGMO, CRON, PLRX, KURA, TYRA, and PRTA

Should you be buying Editas Medicine stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Editas Medicine include Adverum Biotechnologies (ADVM), Cellectis (CLLS), bluebird bio (BLUE), Precision BioSciences (DTIL), Sangamo Therapeutics (SGMO), Cronos Group (CRON), Pliant Therapeutics (PLRX), Kura Oncology (KURA), Tyra Biosciences (TYRA), and Prothena (PRTA). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.

Editas Medicine vs.

Editas Medicine (NASDAQ:EDIT) and Adverum Biotechnologies (NASDAQ:ADVM) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk and community ranking.

71.9% of Editas Medicine shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.2% of Adverum Biotechnologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of Editas Medicine shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of Adverum Biotechnologies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Adverum Biotechnologies has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Editas Medicine. Adverum Biotechnologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Editas Medicine, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Editas Medicine$61.76M3.26-$153.22M-$2.56-0.95
Adverum Biotechnologies$1M125.64-$117.17M-$5.99-1.01

Editas Medicine presently has a consensus target price of $9.08, indicating a potential upside of 272.27%. Adverum Biotechnologies has a consensus target price of $27.83, indicating a potential upside of 360.82%. Given Adverum Biotechnologies' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Adverum Biotechnologies is more favorable than Editas Medicine.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Editas Medicine
0 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
7 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.54
Adverum Biotechnologies
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.83

Adverum Biotechnologies received 58 more outperform votes than Editas Medicine when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.39% of users gave Adverum Biotechnologies an outperform vote while only 53.81% of users gave Editas Medicine an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Editas MedicineOutperform Votes
311
53.81%
Underperform Votes
267
46.19%
Adverum BiotechnologiesOutperform Votes
369
60.39%
Underperform Votes
242
39.61%

Adverum Biotechnologies has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Editas Medicine's net margin of -340.96%. Adverum Biotechnologies' return on equity of -65.14% beat Editas Medicine's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Editas Medicine-340.96% -80.13% -50.99%
Adverum Biotechnologies N/A -65.14%-40.52%

Editas Medicine has a beta of 2.01, indicating that its stock price is 101% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Adverum Biotechnologies has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Adverum Biotechnologies had 6 more articles in the media than Editas Medicine. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Adverum Biotechnologies and 6 mentions for Editas Medicine. Adverum Biotechnologies' average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Editas Medicine's score of 0.64 indicating that Adverum Biotechnologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Editas Medicine
3 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Adverum Biotechnologies
3 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Adverum Biotechnologies beats Editas Medicine on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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EDIT vs. The Competition

MetricEditas MedicineBiological Products IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$201.42M$3.04B$5.20B$8.83B
Dividend YieldN/A1.91%5.06%4.09%
P/E Ratio-0.9542.69112.7217.51
Price / Sales3.26352.371,242.97159.41
Price / CashN/A169.3839.8636.27
Price / Book1.154.597.056.49
Net Income-$153.22M-$41.63M$118.72M$225.45M
7 Day Performance-8.27%2.49%2.20%3.61%
1 Month Performance-25.84%-3.43%-3.08%3.45%
1 Year Performance-76.74%28.39%33.70%29.16%

Editas Medicine Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
EDIT
Editas Medicine
4.7036 of 5 stars
$2.44
+3.0%
$9.08
+272.3%
-76.7%$201.42M$61.76M-0.95230Analyst Revision
ADVM
Adverum Biotechnologies
4.1174 of 5 stars
$5.80
-6.0%
$27.83
+379.9%
-28.1%$128.35M$1M-0.97190Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume
CLLS
Cellectis
2.8671 of 5 stars
$1.87
-2.1%
$7.00
+274.3%
-33.3%$106.17M$29.07M-1.44290Analyst Forecast
BLUE
bluebird bio
2.4989 of 5 stars
$0.29
-3.3%
$3.03
+926.8%
-90.8%$57.28M$29.50M-0.16323
DTIL
Precision BioSciences
4.043 of 5 stars
$6.50
-9.5%
$39.50
+507.7%
-42.9%$49.86M$48.73M109.02200High Trading Volume
SGMO
Sangamo Therapeutics
2.16 of 5 stars
$1.97
+1.0%
$7.00
+255.5%
+424.7%$410.87M$176.23M-2.63480
CRON
Cronos Group
1.8238 of 5 stars
$2.05
+2.0%
$3.00
+46.3%
+4.0%$783.72M$87.24M-15.46356
PLRX
Pliant Therapeutics
3.4996 of 5 stars
$12.85
+0.9%
$40.57
+215.7%
-6.8%$781.92M$1.58M-3.8590
KURA
Kura Oncology
4.0734 of 5 stars
$10.00
-37.1%
$29.43
+194.3%
+15.0%$777.68MN/A-4.45142Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
TYRA
Tyra Biosciences
2.9438 of 5 stars
$15.36
-3.2%
$31.00
+101.8%
+38.7%$777.22MN/A-9.6220
PRTA
Prothena
1.6559 of 5 stars
$14.44
+0.3%
$61.86
+328.4%
-55.4%$777.02M$91.37M-5.82173Analyst Downgrade

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This page (NASDAQ:EDIT) was last updated on 11/23/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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