CARM vs. CTSO, XGN, AWH, LFVN, ADVM, PRLD, GBIO, RENB, OMER, and PBYI
Should you be buying Carisma Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Carisma Therapeutics include Cytosorbents (CTSO), Exagen (XGN), Aspira Women's Health (AWH), LifeVantage (LFVN), Adverum Biotechnologies (ADVM), Prelude Therapeutics (PRLD), Generation Bio (GBIO), Renovaro (RENB), Omeros (OMER), and Puma Biotechnology (PBYI). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Cytosorbents (NASDAQ:CTSO) and Carisma Therapeutics (NASDAQ:CARM) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and risk.
Cytosorbents has a beta of 0.61, meaning that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Carisma Therapeutics has a beta of 1.36, meaning that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Carisma Therapeutics had 2 more articles in the media than Cytosorbents. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Carisma Therapeutics and 1 mentions for Cytosorbents. Cytosorbents' average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Carisma Therapeutics' score of 0.50 indicating that Carisma Therapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
32.9% of Cytosorbents shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.3% of Carisma Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. 6.6% of Cytosorbents shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.0% of Carisma Therapeutics shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Cytosorbents has a net margin of -75.07% compared to Cytosorbents' net margin of -538.81%. Carisma Therapeutics' return on equity of -129.89% beat Cytosorbents' return on equity.
Cytosorbents received 424 more outperform votes than Carisma Therapeutics when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Carisma Therapeutics an outperform vote while only 78.99% of users gave Cytosorbents an outperform vote.
Cytosorbents currently has a consensus price target of $2.00, indicating a potential upside of 125.89%. Carisma Therapeutics has a consensus price target of $9.00, indicating a potential upside of 656.30%. Given Cytosorbents' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Carisma Therapeutics is more favorable than Cytosorbents.
Cytosorbents has higher revenue and earnings than Carisma Therapeutics. Cytosorbents is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carisma Therapeutics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Carisma Therapeutics beats Cytosorbents on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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