RXRX vs. VCEL, PTCT, APGE, KYMR, ADMA, ACLX, BEAM, TWST, IMCR, and SANA
Should you be buying Recursion Pharmaceuticals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Recursion Pharmaceuticals include Vericel (VCEL), PTC Therapeutics (PTCT), Apogee Therapeutics (APGE), Kymera Therapeutics (KYMR), ADMA Biologics (ADMA), Arcellx (ACLX), Beam Therapeutics (BEAM), Twist Bioscience (TWST), Immunocore (IMCR), and Sana Biotechnology (SANA). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Recursion Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:RXRX) and Vericel (NASDAQ:VCEL) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, risk, community ranking, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
89.1% of Recursion Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. 15.8% of Recursion Pharmaceuticals shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.2% of Vericel shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Recursion Pharmaceuticals currently has a consensus price target of $14.33, indicating a potential upside of 53.13%. Vericel has a consensus price target of $46.80, indicating a potential downside of 7.01%. Given Recursion Pharmaceuticals' higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Recursion Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than Vericel.
Vericel has a net margin of 0.22% compared to Recursion Pharmaceuticals' net margin of -765.90%. Vericel's return on equity of 0.21% beat Recursion Pharmaceuticals' return on equity.
In the previous week, Vericel had 1 more articles in the media than Recursion Pharmaceuticals. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Vericel and 3 mentions for Recursion Pharmaceuticals. Vericel's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Recursion Pharmaceuticals' score of 0.47 indicating that Vericel is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Vericel has higher revenue and earnings than Recursion Pharmaceuticals. Vericel is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Recursion Pharmaceuticals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Vericel received 315 more outperform votes than Recursion Pharmaceuticals when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.22% of users gave Vericel an outperform vote while only 51.22% of users gave Recursion Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote.
Recursion Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vericel has a beta of 1.74, meaning that its share price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Vericel beats Recursion Pharmaceuticals on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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