BDSX vs. PSNL, SERA, ENZ, RNLX, XGN, DMTK, CNTG, CELC, CSTL, and FLGT
Should you be buying Biodesix stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Biodesix include Personalis (PSNL), Sera Prognostics (SERA), Enzo Biochem (ENZ), Renalytix (RNLX), Exagen (XGN), DermTech (DMTK), Centogene (CNTG), Celcuity (CELC), Castle Biosciences (CSTL), and Fulgent Genetics (FLGT). These companies are all part of the "medical laboratories" industry.
Biodesix (NASDAQ:BDSX) and Personalis (NASDAQ:PSNL) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Biodesix presently has a consensus price target of $3.10, suggesting a potential upside of 105.30%. Personalis has a consensus price target of $5.00, suggesting a potential upside of 237.84%. Given Personalis' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Personalis is more favorable than Biodesix.
Personalis received 83 more outperform votes than Biodesix when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.97% of users gave Biodesix an outperform vote while only 65.48% of users gave Personalis an outperform vote.
21.0% of Biodesix shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.9% of Personalis shares are owned by institutional investors. 63.8% of Biodesix shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.1% of Personalis shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Biodesix has a beta of 1.15, meaning that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Personalis has a beta of 1.91, meaning that its stock price is 91% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Biodesix had 1 more articles in the media than Personalis. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Biodesix and 19 mentions for Personalis. Personalis' average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Biodesix's score of 0.52 indicating that Personalis is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Biodesix has a net margin of -85.80% compared to Personalis' net margin of -124.89%. Personalis' return on equity of -58.31% beat Biodesix's return on equity.
Biodesix has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Personalis. Biodesix is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Personalis, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Personalis beats Biodesix on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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