CELC vs. CDNA, CSTL, SERA, FLGT, BDSX, VRDN, ENZ, RNLX, XGN, and DMTK
Should you be buying Celcuity stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Celcuity include CareDx (CDNA), Castle Biosciences (CSTL), Sera Prognostics (SERA), Fulgent Genetics (FLGT), Biodesix (BDSX), Viridian Therapeutics (VRDN), Enzo Biochem (ENZ), Renalytix (RNLX), Exagen (XGN), and DermTech (DMTK). These companies are all part of the "medical laboratories" industry.
CareDx (NASDAQ:CDNA) and Celcuity (NASDAQ:CELC) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, risk, profitability, media sentiment, valuation and dividends.
CareDx presently has a consensus price target of $14.00, suggesting a potential upside of 27.50%. Celcuity has a consensus price target of $29.00, suggesting a potential upside of 62.56%. Given CareDx's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Celcuity is more favorable than CareDx.
CareDx has a beta of 1.51, meaning that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Celcuity has a beta of 0.87, meaning that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Celcuity has lower revenue, but higher earnings than CareDx. Celcuity is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CareDx, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CareDx received 100 more outperform votes than Celcuity when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.61% of users gave CareDx an outperform vote while only 66.60% of users gave Celcuity an outperform vote.
Celcuity has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Celcuity's net margin of -67.88%. Celcuity's return on equity of -51.40% beat CareDx's return on equity.
In the previous week, CareDx had 1 more articles in the media than Celcuity. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for CareDx and 4 mentions for Celcuity. Celcuity's average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat CareDx's score of -0.22 indicating that CareDx is being referred to more favorably in the media.
63.3% of Celcuity shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.2% of CareDx shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 20.3% of Celcuity 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.
Summary
CareDx beats Celcuity on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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