BCDA vs. PLUR, BCLI, SABS, CRTX, ZIVO, AIM, EVAX, PMCB, APTO, and SNTI
Should you be buying BioCardia stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BioCardia include Pluri (PLUR), Brainstorm Cell Therapeutics (BCLI), SAB Biotherapeutics (SABS), Cortexyme (CRTX), ZIVO Bioscience (ZIVO), AIM ImmunoTech (AIM), Evaxion Biotech A/S (EVAX), PharmaCyte Biotech (PMCB), Aptose Biosciences (APTO), and Senti Biosciences (SNTI). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
BioCardia (NASDAQ:BCDA) and Pluri (NASDAQ:PLUR) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, valuation, earnings, community ranking, risk and analyst recommendations.
BioCardia received 11 more outperform votes than Pluri when rated by MarketBeat users.
BioCardia presently has a consensus target price of $60.00, suggesting a potential upside of 1,512.90%. Given BioCardia's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe BioCardia is more favorable than Pluri.
BioCardia has a net margin of -2,208.76% compared to Pluri's net margin of -6,339.59%. Pluri's return on equity of -249.60% beat BioCardia's return on equity.
20.6% of BioCardia shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.6% of Pluri shares are held by institutional investors. 20.0% of BioCardia shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.2% of Pluri shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
BioCardia has higher revenue and earnings than Pluri. Pluri is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BioCardia, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
BioCardia has a beta of 1.41, meaning that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pluri has a beta of 1.62, meaning that its share price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, BioCardia and BioCardia both had 1 articles in the media. BioCardia's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Pluri'saverage media sentiment score.
Summary
BioCardia beats Pluri on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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