AGY vs. ANCR, BXP, APH, EAH, CEL, VLG, BMK, AVCT, 4BB, and EKF
Should you be buying Allergy Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Allergy Therapeutics include Animalcare Group (ANCR), Beximco Pharmaceuticals (BXP), Alliance Pharma (APH), ECO Animal Health Group (EAH), Celadon Pharmaceuticals (CEL), Venture Life Group (VLG), Benchmark (BMK), Avacta Group (AVCT), 4basebio (4BB), and EKF Diagnostics (EKF). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Animalcare Group (LON:ANCR) and Allergy Therapeutics (LON:AGY) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, dividends, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
49.3% of Animalcare Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.1% of Allergy Therapeutics shares are owned by institutional investors. 29.7% of Animalcare Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 93.2% of Allergy Therapeutics shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Allergy Therapeutics received 207 more outperform votes than Animalcare Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.97% of users gave Allergy Therapeutics an outperform vote while only 69.37% of users gave Animalcare Group an outperform vote.
Animalcare Group has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Allergy Therapeutics has a beta of 1.34, indicating that its stock price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Animalcare Group has higher revenue and earnings than Allergy Therapeutics. Allergy Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Animalcare Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Allergy Therapeutics had 2 more articles in the media than Animalcare Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Allergy Therapeutics and 0 mentions for Animalcare Group. Animalcare Group's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Allergy Therapeutics' score of 0.00 indicating that Allergy Therapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Animalcare Group has a net margin of 1.61% compared to Animalcare Group's net margin of -94.29%. Allergy Therapeutics' return on equity of 1.53% beat Animalcare Group's return on equity.
Summary
Animalcare Group beats Allergy Therapeutics on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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