ALT vs. KALV, VERV, TVTX, LRMR, OCS, STTK, CMPS, ANL, ABUS, and ATXS
Should you be buying Altimmune stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Altimmune include KalVista Pharmaceuticals (KALV), Verve Therapeutics (VERV), Travere Therapeutics (TVTX), Larimar Therapeutics (LRMR), Oculis (OCS), Shattuck Labs (STTK), COMPASS Pathways (CMPS), Adlai Nortye (ANL), Arbutus Biopharma (ABUS), and Astria Therapeutics (ATXS). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Altimmune (NASDAQ:ALT) and KalVista Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:KALV) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and earnings.
Altimmune has a beta of 0.22, suggesting that its share price is 78% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, KalVista Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
KalVista Pharmaceuticals received 282 more outperform votes than Altimmune when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.93% of users gave KalVista Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 69.12% of users gave Altimmune an outperform vote.
KalVista Pharmaceuticals has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Altimmune's net margin of -20,780.75%. Altimmune's return on equity of -44.77% beat KalVista Pharmaceuticals' return on equity.
Altimmune has higher revenue and earnings than KalVista Pharmaceuticals. Altimmune is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than KalVista Pharmaceuticals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Altimmune had 19 more articles in the media than KalVista Pharmaceuticals. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Altimmune and 5 mentions for KalVista Pharmaceuticals. Altimmune's average media sentiment score of 0.07 beat KalVista Pharmaceuticals' score of -0.20 indicating that Altimmune is being referred to more favorably in the media.
78.1% of Altimmune shares are held by institutional investors. 4.1% of Altimmune shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.3% of KalVista Pharmaceuticals shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Altimmune presently has a consensus target price of $15.00, indicating a potential upside of 94.30%. KalVista Pharmaceuticals has a consensus target price of $25.00, indicating a potential upside of 106.78%. Given KalVista Pharmaceuticals' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe KalVista Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than Altimmune.
Summary
KalVista Pharmaceuticals beats Altimmune on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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