ATOS vs. GBIO, ALIM, RIGL, LFCR, IXHL, OMER, TELO, ELYM, GTHX, and VERU
Should you be buying Atossa Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Atossa Therapeutics include Generation Bio (GBIO), Alimera Sciences (ALIM), Rigel Pharmaceuticals (RIGL), Lifecore Biomedical (LFCR), Incannex Healthcare (IXHL), Omeros (OMER), Telomir Pharmaceuticals (TELO), Eliem Therapeutics (ELYM), G1 Therapeutics (GTHX), and Veru (VERU). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Atossa Therapeutics (NASDAQ:ATOS) and Generation Bio (NASDAQ:GBIO) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.
Atossa Therapeutics received 192 more outperform votes than Generation Bio when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.67% of users gave Generation Bio an outperform vote while only 64.96% of users gave Atossa Therapeutics an outperform vote.
Atossa Therapeutics currently has a consensus price target of $4.50, indicating a potential upside of 171.08%. Generation Bio has a consensus price target of $8.00, indicating a potential upside of 152.37%. Given Atossa Therapeutics' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Atossa Therapeutics is more favorable than Generation Bio.
In the previous week, Atossa Therapeutics had 2 more articles in the media than Generation Bio. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Atossa Therapeutics and 0 mentions for Generation Bio. Atossa Therapeutics' average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Generation Bio's score of 0.00 indicating that Atossa Therapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Atossa Therapeutics has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Generation Bio has a beta of 2.87, suggesting that its stock price is 187% more volatile than the S&P 500.
12.7% of Atossa Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.2% of Generation Bio shares are held by institutional investors. 7.8% of Atossa Therapeutics shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.8% of Generation Bio shares are held by company 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.
Atossa Therapeutics' return on equity of -31.01% beat Generation Bio's return on equity.
Atossa Therapeutics has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Generation Bio. Atossa Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Generation Bio, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Atossa Therapeutics beats Generation Bio on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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