ICCC vs. ABIO, AWH, VNRX, OCX, CDIO, TRIB, TKNO, OKYO, GANX, and HCWB
Should you be buying ImmuCell stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ImmuCell include ARCA biopharma (ABIO), Aspira Women's Health (AWH), VolitionRx (VNRX), OncoCyte (OCX), Cardio Diagnostics (CDIO), Trinity Biotech (TRIB), Alpha Teknova (TKNO), OKYO Pharma (OKYO), Gain Therapeutics (GANX), and HCW Biologics (HCWB). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
ImmuCell (NASDAQ:ICCC) and ARCA biopharma (NASDAQ:ABIO) 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.
In the previous week, ImmuCell had 4 more articles in the media than ARCA biopharma. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for ImmuCell and 2 mentions for ARCA biopharma. ARCA biopharma's average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat ImmuCell's score of 0.16 indicating that ARCA biopharma is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ImmuCell has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ARCA biopharma has a beta of 0.89, suggesting that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
13.5% of ImmuCell shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.4% of ARCA biopharma shares are held by institutional investors. 6.3% of ImmuCell shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 30.9% of ARCA biopharma 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.
ARCA biopharma received 2 more outperform votes than ImmuCell when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.33% of users gave ImmuCell an outperform vote while only 42.27% of users gave ARCA biopharma an outperform vote.
ARCA biopharma has lower revenue, but higher earnings than ImmuCell. ImmuCell is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ARCA biopharma, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ARCA biopharma has a net margin of 0.00% compared to ImmuCell's net margin of -18.31%. ImmuCell's return on equity of -15.21% beat ARCA biopharma's return on equity.
Summary
ARCA biopharma beats ImmuCell on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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