HLS vs. ACB, CPH, OGI, FIRE, WEED, EPI, ICC, RIV, LEAF, and CRDL
Should you be buying HLS Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HLS Therapeutics include Aurora Cannabis (ACB), Cipher Pharmaceuticals (CPH), Organigram (OGI), Supreme Cannabis (FIRE), Canopy Growth (WEED), ESSA Pharma (EPI), ICC Labs (ICC), RIV Capital (RIV), Leaf Mobile (LEAF), and Cardiol Therapeutics (CRDL). These companies are all part of the "drug manufacturers - specialty & generic" industry.
HLS Therapeutics vs.
HLS Therapeutics (TSE:HLS) and Aurora Cannabis (TSE:ACB) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership and risk.
HLS Therapeutics currently has a consensus price target of C$4.13, suggesting a potential downside of 1.08%. Aurora Cannabis has a consensus price target of C$7.48, suggesting a potential downside of 10.27%. Given HLS Therapeutics' higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe HLS Therapeutics is more favorable than Aurora Cannabis.
HLS Therapeutics has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Aurora Cannabis has a beta of 2.71, meaning that its stock price is 171% more volatile than the S&P 500.
65.2% of HLS Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.4% of Aurora Cannabis shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of HLS Therapeutics shares are held by 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.
HLS Therapeutics has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Aurora Cannabis. Aurora Cannabis is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HLS Therapeutics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Aurora Cannabis received 497 more outperform votes than HLS Therapeutics when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.38% of users gave HLS Therapeutics an outperform vote while only 63.14% of users gave Aurora Cannabis an outperform vote.
Aurora Cannabis has a net margin of -22.55% compared to HLS Therapeutics' net margin of -38.70%. Aurora Cannabis' return on equity of -8.36% beat HLS Therapeutics' return on equity.
In the previous week, Aurora Cannabis had 2 more articles in the media than HLS Therapeutics. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Aurora Cannabis and 1 mentions for HLS Therapeutics. HLS Therapeutics' average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Aurora Cannabis' score of 0.34 indicating that HLS Therapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Aurora Cannabis beats HLS Therapeutics on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (TSE:HLS) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
