FLGT vs. CSTL, CDNA, CELC, VRDN, SERA, BDSX, BNR, PSNL, RNLX, and VCYT
Should you be buying Fulgent Genetics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fulgent Genetics include Castle Biosciences (CSTL), CareDx (CDNA), Celcuity (CELC), Viridian Therapeutics (VRDN), Sera Prognostics (SERA), Biodesix (BDSX), Burning Rock Biotech (BNR), Personalis (PSNL), Renalytix (RNLX), and Veracyte (VCYT). These companies are all part of the "medical laboratories" industry.
Castle Biosciences (NASDAQ:CSTL) and Fulgent Genetics (NASDAQ:FLGT) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, valuation, risk and analyst recommendations.
Castle Biosciences has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fulgent Genetics has a beta of 1.43, indicating that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Castle Biosciences has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Fulgent Genetics. Castle Biosciences is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fulgent Genetics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
92.6% of Castle Biosciences shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.1% of Fulgent Genetics shares are held by institutional investors. 7.2% of Castle Biosciences shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 31.8% of Fulgent Genetics shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Castle Biosciences had 3 more articles in the media than Fulgent Genetics. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Castle Biosciences and 1 mentions for Fulgent Genetics. Fulgent Genetics' average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat Castle Biosciences' score of -0.12 indicating that Castle Biosciences is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Fulgent Genetics received 163 more outperform votes than Castle Biosciences when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.31% of users gave Castle Biosciences an outperform vote while only 60.70% of users gave Fulgent Genetics an outperform vote.
Castle Biosciences has a net margin of -12.28% compared to Castle Biosciences' net margin of -57.72%. Castle Biosciences' return on equity of -2.92% beat Fulgent Genetics' return on equity.
Castle Biosciences currently has a consensus price target of $31.57, suggesting a potential upside of 30.25%. Fulgent Genetics has a consensus price target of $30.00, suggesting a potential upside of 35.69%. Given Castle Biosciences' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Fulgent Genetics is more favorable than Castle Biosciences.
Summary
Castle Biosciences beats Fulgent Genetics on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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