CMPS vs. SIGA, ALT, OLMA, HROW, IGMS, ABUS, AVTE, YMAB, CDMO, and APLT
Should you be buying COMPASS Pathways stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of COMPASS Pathways include SIGA Technologies (SIGA), Altimmune (ALT), Olema Pharmaceuticals (OLMA), Harrow (HROW), IGM Biosciences (IGMS), Arbutus Biopharma (ABUS), Aerovate Therapeutics (AVTE), Y-mAbs Therapeutics (YMAB), Avid Bioservices (CDMO), and Applied Therapeutics (APLT). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
SIGA Technologies (NASDAQ:SIGA) and COMPASS Pathways (NASDAQ:CMPS) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment and profitability.
COMPASS Pathways received 45 more outperform votes than SIGA Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.92% of users gave COMPASS Pathways an outperform vote while only 23.81% of users gave SIGA Technologies an outperform vote.
55.4% of SIGA Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.2% of COMPASS Pathways shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of SIGA Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of COMPASS Pathways shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, SIGA Technologies had 12 more articles in the media than COMPASS Pathways. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for SIGA Technologies and 1 mentions for COMPASS Pathways. SIGA Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat COMPASS Pathways' score of -0.05 indicating that COMPASS Pathways is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
COMPASS Pathways has a consensus price target of $47.40, indicating a potential upside of 500.76%. Given SIGA Technologies' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe COMPASS Pathways is more favorable than SIGA Technologies.
SIGA Technologies has a beta of 0.95, suggesting that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, COMPASS Pathways has a beta of 2.39, suggesting that its stock price is 139% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SIGA Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than COMPASS Pathways. COMPASS Pathways is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SIGA Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SIGA Technologies has a net margin of 50.48% compared to SIGA Technologies' net margin of 0.00%. COMPASS Pathways' return on equity of 51.97% beat SIGA Technologies' return on equity.
Summary
SIGA Technologies beats COMPASS Pathways on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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