QTRX vs. FLDM, LAB, CTKB, PACB, EYPT, NAUT, HBIO, SEER, AKYA, and BNGO
Should you be buying Quanterix stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Quanterix include Fluidigm (FLDM), Standard BioTools (LAB), Cytek Biosciences (CTKB), Pacific Biosciences of California (PACB), EyePoint Pharmaceuticals (EYPT), Nautilus Biotechnology (NAUT), Harvard Bioscience (HBIO), Seer (SEER), Akoya Biosciences (AKYA), and Bionano Genomics (BNGO).
Fluidigm (NASDAQ:FLDM) and Quanterix (NASDAQ:QTRX) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, profitability and community ranking.
Quanterix has a consensus target price of $30.60, indicating a potential upside of 80.00%.
Fluidigm has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Quanterix has a beta of 1.5, suggesting that its stock price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Quanterix has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Fluidigm. Quanterix is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fluidigm, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Quanterix has a net margin of -28.82% compared to Quanterix's net margin of -45.36%. Fluidigm's return on equity of -10.39% beat Quanterix's return on equity.
Fluidigm received 249 more outperform votes than Quanterix when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.48% of users gave Fluidigm an outperform vote while only 61.66% of users gave Quanterix an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Quanterix had 6 more articles in the media than Fluidigm. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Quanterix and 0 mentions for Fluidigm. Fluidigm's average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Quanterix's score of 0.28 indicating that Quanterix is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
76.6% of Fluidigm shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.5% of Quanterix shares are held by institutional investors. 2.9% of Fluidigm shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.9% of Quanterix shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Quanterix beats Fluidigm on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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