ACB vs. CRON, USNA, CGC, MNMD, BTMD, CDXC, MDWD, FTLF, NAII, and BGXX
Should you be buying Aurora Cannabis stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aurora Cannabis include Cronos Group (CRON), USANA Health Sciences (USNA), Canopy Growth (CGC), Mind Medicine (MindMed) (MNMD), biote (BTMD), ChromaDex (CDXC), MediWound (MDWD), FitLife Brands (FTLF), Natural Alternatives International (NAII), and Bright Green (BGXX). These companies are all part of the "medicinals & botanicals" industry.
Aurora Cannabis (NASDAQ:ACB) and Cronos Group (NASDAQ:CRON) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and profitability.
Cronos Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Aurora Cannabis. Cronos Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Aurora Cannabis, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Aurora Cannabis has a net margin of -48.82% compared to Cronos Group's net margin of -61.31%. Cronos Group's return on equity of -3.06% beat Aurora Cannabis' return on equity.
47.6% of Aurora Cannabis shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.7% of Cronos Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Aurora Cannabis shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.9% of Cronos Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Cronos Group has a consensus price target of $3.00, suggesting a potential upside of 11.94%. Given Cronos Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Cronos Group is more favorable than Aurora Cannabis.
Aurora Cannabis has a beta of 1.96, suggesting that its stock price is 96% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cronos Group has a beta of 1.11, suggesting that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Cronos Group had 4 more articles in the media than Aurora Cannabis. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Cronos Group and 5 mentions for Aurora Cannabis. Cronos Group's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Aurora Cannabis' score of 0.46 indicating that Cronos Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Cronos Group received 83 more outperform votes than Aurora Cannabis when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.13% of users gave Cronos Group an outperform vote while only 59.44% of users gave Aurora Cannabis an outperform vote.
Summary
Cronos Group beats Aurora Cannabis on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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