FORA vs. LFVN, TPST, HOOK, JATT, PSNL, AFMD, JAGX, CRVS, LPTX, and TKNO
Should you be buying Forian stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Forian include LifeVantage (LFVN), Tempest Therapeutics (TPST), Hookipa Pharma (HOOK), JATT Acquisition (JATT), Personalis (PSNL), Affimed (AFMD), Jaguar Health (JAGX), Corvus Pharmaceuticals (CRVS), Leap Therapeutics (LPTX), and Alpha Teknova (TKNO). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
LifeVantage (NASDAQ:LFVN) and Forian (NASDAQ:FORA) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
Forian has a consensus target price of $7.67, suggesting a potential upside of 178.79%. Given LifeVantage's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Forian is more favorable than LifeVantage.
Forian has lower revenue, but higher earnings than LifeVantage. Forian is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LifeVantage, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
LifeVantage has a net margin of 1.75% compared to LifeVantage's net margin of 0.00%. Forian's return on equity of 27.02% beat LifeVantage's return on equity.
LifeVantage has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Forian has a beta of 1.11, meaning that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Forian had 3 more articles in the media than LifeVantage. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Forian and 2 mentions for LifeVantage. LifeVantage's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Forian's score of 0.44 indicating that Forian is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
35.3% of LifeVantage shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.3% of Forian shares are held by institutional investors. 6.8% of LifeVantage shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 31.3% of Forian shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
LifeVantage received 212 more outperform votes than Forian when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 90.00% of users gave Forian an outperform vote while only 77.82% of users gave LifeVantage an outperform vote.
Summary
Forian beats LifeVantage on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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