RLAY vs. MESO, PRME, RGNX, CRGX, HUMA, PROK, IMTX, KYTX, HLVX, and AUTL Should you be buying Relay Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Relay Therapeutics include Mesoblast (MESO), Prime Medicine (PRME), REGENXBIO (RGNX), CARGO Therapeutics (CRGX), Humacyte (HUMA), ProKidney (PROK), Immatics (IMTX), Kyverna Therapeutics (KYTX), HilleVax (HLVX), and Autolus Therapeutics (AUTL). These companies are all part of the "biological products, except diagnostic" industry.
Mesoblast (NASDAQ:MESO ) and Relay Therapeutics (NASDAQ:RLAY ) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings and risk.
1.4% of Mesoblast shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.0% of Relay Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. 18.8% of Mesoblast shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of Relay Therapeutics shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Mesoblast currently has a consensus target price of $13.67, indicating a potential upside of 85.94%. Relay Therapeutics has a consensus target price of $22.20, indicating a potential upside of 234.34%. Given Mesoblast's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Relay Therapeutics is more favorable than Mesoblast.
In the previous week, Mesoblast had 2 more articles in the media than Relay Therapeutics. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Mesoblast and 2 mentions for Relay Therapeutics. Relay Therapeutics' average media sentiment score of 0.35 beat Mesoblast's score of 0.09 indicating that Mesoblast is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Mesoblast has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Mesoblast's net margin of -1,263.49%. Relay Therapeutics' return on equity of 0.00% beat Mesoblast's return on equity.
Mesoblast has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Relay Therapeutics. Mesoblast is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Relay Therapeutics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Mesoblast has a beta of 3.45, meaning that its stock price is 245% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Relay Therapeutics has a beta of 1.68, meaning that its stock price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Mesoblast received 364 more outperform votes than Relay Therapeutics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.45% of users gave Mesoblast an outperform vote while only 60.94% of users gave Relay Therapeutics an outperform vote.
Summary Mesoblast beats Relay Therapeutics on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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