SGMO vs. CRIS, SABS, AGEN, BLUE, DBVT, BCAB, LIFE, MOLN, OMGA, and SCLX
Should you be buying Sangamo Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sangamo Therapeutics include Curis (CRIS), SAB Biotherapeutics (SABS), Agenus (AGEN), bluebird bio (BLUE), DBV Technologies (DBVT), BioAtla (BCAB), aTyr Pharma (LIFE), Molecular Partners (MOLN), Omega Therapeutics (OMGA), and Scilex (SCLX). These companies are all part of the "biological products, except diagnostic" industry.
Curis (NASDAQ:CRIS) and Sangamo Therapeutics (NASDAQ:SGMO) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation and institutional ownership.
Curis presently has a consensus price target of $37.33, suggesting a potential upside of 216.38%. Sangamo Therapeutics has a consensus price target of $5.67, suggesting a potential upside of 772.33%. Given Curis' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Sangamo Therapeutics is more favorable than Curis.
Curis has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Sangamo Therapeutics. Curis is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sangamo Therapeutics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Curis and Curis both had 14 articles in the media. Sangamo Therapeutics' average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat Curis' score of 0.33 indicating that Curis is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Curis received 249 more outperform votes than Sangamo Therapeutics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.65% of users gave Curis an outperform vote while only 62.71% of users gave Sangamo Therapeutics an outperform vote.
30.0% of Curis shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.9% of Sangamo Therapeutics shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.7% of Curis shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Sangamo Therapeutics shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Curis has a beta of 3.59, indicating that its share price is 259% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sangamo Therapeutics has a beta of 1.4, indicating that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Curis has a net margin of -486.45% compared to Curis' net margin of -1,749.06%. Curis' return on equity of -182.55% beat Sangamo Therapeutics' return on equity.
Summary
Curis beats Sangamo Therapeutics on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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