ELUT vs. PLX, ATHA, CGTX, CVM, GRTS, TIL, DTIL, TSBX, ALVR, and PASG
Should you be buying Elutia stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Elutia include Protalix BioTherapeutics (PLX), Athira Pharma (ATHA), Cognition Therapeutics (CGTX), CEL-SCI (CVM), Gritstone bio (GRTS), Instil Bio (TIL), Precision BioSciences (DTIL), Turnstone Biologics (TSBX), AlloVir (ALVR), and Passage Bio (PASG). These companies are all part of the "biological products, except diagnostic" industry.
Elutia (NASDAQ:ELUT) and Protalix BioTherapeutics (NYSE:PLX) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, risk, earnings and community ranking.
Elutia currently has a consensus price target of $5.00, indicating a potential upside of 48.37%. Protalix BioTherapeutics has a consensus price target of $10.00, indicating a potential upside of 733.33%. Given Protalix BioTherapeutics' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Protalix BioTherapeutics is more favorable than Elutia.
Elutia has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Protalix BioTherapeutics has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Protalix BioTherapeutics has a net margin of 11.48% compared to Elutia's net margin of -164.45%. Protalix BioTherapeutics' return on equity of 19.48% beat Elutia's return on equity.
Protalix BioTherapeutics has higher revenue and earnings than Elutia. Elutia is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Protalix BioTherapeutics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
74.0% of Elutia shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.5% of Protalix BioTherapeutics shares are owned by institutional investors. 40.8% of Elutia shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.0% of Protalix BioTherapeutics shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Elutia and Protalix BioTherapeutics both received 5 outperform votes by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Elutia an outperform vote while only 62.50% of users gave Protalix BioTherapeutics an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Protalix BioTherapeutics had 1 more articles in the media than Elutia. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Protalix BioTherapeutics and 2 mentions for Elutia. Protalix BioTherapeutics' average media sentiment score of 0.17 beat Elutia's score of -0.33 indicating that Protalix BioTherapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Protalix BioTherapeutics beats Elutia on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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