INO vs. RCEL, UTMD, ARAY, ANGO, TLSI, SGHT, PROF, LUNG, DRTS, and QIPT
Should you be buying Inovio Pharmaceuticals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Inovio Pharmaceuticals include AVITA Medical (RCEL), Utah Medical Products (UTMD), Accuray (ARAY), AngioDynamics (ANGO), TriSalus Life Sciences (TLSI), Sight Sciences (SGHT), Profound Medical (PROF), Pulmonx (LUNG), Alpha Tau Medical (DRTS), and Quipt Home Medical (QIPT). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Inovio Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:INO) and AVITA Medical (NASDAQ:RCEL) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, dividends, profitability, valuation, risk, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Inovio Pharmaceuticals received 644 more outperform votes than AVITA Medical when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.46% of users gave Inovio Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 68.57% of users gave AVITA Medical an outperform vote.
26.8% of Inovio Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.7% of AVITA Medical shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.5% of Inovio Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of AVITA Medical shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Inovio Pharmaceuticals had 4 more articles in the media than AVITA Medical. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Inovio Pharmaceuticals and 2 mentions for AVITA Medical. AVITA Medical's average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat Inovio Pharmaceuticals' score of -0.01 indicating that AVITA Medical is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
AVITA Medical has higher revenue and earnings than Inovio Pharmaceuticals. AVITA Medical is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Inovio Pharmaceuticals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Inovio Pharmaceuticals currently has a consensus target price of $96.00, indicating a potential upside of 748.06%. AVITA Medical has a consensus target price of $27.80, indicating a potential upside of 228.22%. Given Inovio Pharmaceuticals' higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Inovio Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than AVITA Medical.
AVITA Medical has a net margin of -70.56% compared to Inovio Pharmaceuticals' net margin of -16,238.91%. AVITA Medical's return on equity of -54.80% beat Inovio Pharmaceuticals' return on equity.
Inovio Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AVITA Medical has a beta of 1.33, indicating that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
AVITA Medical beats Inovio Pharmaceuticals on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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