ASND vs. HEXO, VIR, ZOM, CGC, ACST, AEZS, RGC, NEPT, DBV, and NBY
Should you be buying Ascendant Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ascendant Resources include HEXO (HEXO), Viridium Pacific Group (VIR), Zomedica Pharmaceuticals Corp. (ZOM.V) (ZOM), Canadian Gold (CGC), Acasti Pharma (ACST), Aeterna Zentaris (AEZS), Relevant Gold (RGC), Neptune Wellness Solutions (NEPT), Doubleview Capital (DBV), and Niobay Metals (NBY). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.
Ascendant Resources vs.
HEXO (TSE:HEXO) and Ascendant Resources (TSE:ASND) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
Ascendant Resources has a net margin of 0.00% compared to HEXO's net margin of -220.13%. Ascendant Resources' return on equity of 230.96% beat HEXO's return on equity.
7.6% of HEXO shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 14.5% of Ascendant Resources shares are held by institutional investors. 3.0% of HEXO shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of Ascendant Resources shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
HEXO has a beta of 2.13, suggesting that its share price is 113% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ascendant Resources has a beta of 1.57, suggesting that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ascendant Resources received 37 more outperform votes than HEXO when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.67% of users gave Ascendant Resources an outperform vote while only 47.90% of users gave HEXO an outperform vote.
Ascendant Resources has lower revenue, but higher earnings than HEXO. Ascendant Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HEXO, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, HEXO's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Ascendant Resources'average media sentiment score.
Summary
Ascendant Resources beats HEXO on 9 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of TSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (TSE:ASND) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff