ALEC vs. PROK, VALN, ALLO, VYGR, HUMA, CCCC, EDIT, TSHA, ADPT, and ITOS
Should you be buying Alector stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alector include ProKidney (PROK), Valneva (VALN), Allogene Therapeutics (ALLO), Voyager Therapeutics (VYGR), Humacyte (HUMA), C4 Therapeutics (CCCC), Editas Medicine (EDIT), Taysha Gene Therapies (TSHA), Adaptive Biotechnologies (ADPT), and iTeos Therapeutics (ITOS). These companies are all part of the "biological products, except diagnostic" industry.
Alector (NASDAQ:ALEC) and ProKidney (NASDAQ:PROK) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, dividends and media sentiment.
Alector received 140 more outperform votes than ProKidney when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.67% of users gave ProKidney an outperform vote while only 60.58% of users gave Alector an outperform vote.
Alector presently has a consensus price target of $14.00, indicating a potential upside of 166.67%. ProKidney has a consensus price target of $9.50, indicating a potential upside of 238.08%. Given ProKidney's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe ProKidney is more favorable than Alector.
Alector has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ProKidney has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
ProKidney has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Alector's net margin of -125.11%. ProKidney's return on equity of 0.00% beat Alector's return on equity.
85.8% of Alector shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.6% of ProKidney shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.0% of Alector shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 45.0% of ProKidney shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Alector had 6 more articles in the media than ProKidney. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Alector and 6 mentions for ProKidney. ProKidney's average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat Alector's score of 0.47 indicating that ProKidney is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ProKidney has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Alector. ProKidney is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alector, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
ProKidney beats Alector on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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