LAB vs. QTRX, EYPT, CTKB, PACB, ADPT, NAUT, AKYA, TMCI, HLVX, and BCYC
Should you be buying Standard BioTools stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Standard BioTools include Quanterix (QTRX), EyePoint Pharmaceuticals (EYPT), Cytek Biosciences (CTKB), Pacific Biosciences of California (PACB), Adaptive Biotechnologies (ADPT), Nautilus Biotechnology (NAUT), Akoya Biosciences (AKYA), Treace Medical Concepts (TMCI), HilleVax (HLVX), and Bicycle Therapeutics (BCYC). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Standard BioTools (NASDAQ:LAB) and Quanterix (NASDAQ:QTRX) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings and dividends.
53.7% of Standard BioTools shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.5% of Quanterix shares are held by institutional investors. 53.1% of Standard BioTools shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.9% of Quanterix shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Quanterix has higher revenue and earnings than Standard BioTools. Quanterix is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Standard BioTools, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Standard BioTools currently has a consensus target price of $3.58, indicating a potential upside of 41.63%. Quanterix has a consensus target price of $30.60, indicating a potential upside of 77.70%. Given Quanterix's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Quanterix is more favorable than Standard BioTools.
Quanterix has a net margin of -28.82% compared to Standard BioTools' net margin of -70.98%. Quanterix's return on equity of -10.39% beat Standard BioTools' return on equity.
Standard BioTools has a beta of 1.64, suggesting that its share price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Quanterix has a beta of 1.41, suggesting that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Quanterix received 264 more outperform votes than Standard BioTools when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Standard BioTools an outperform vote while only 61.66% of users gave Quanterix an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Quanterix had 17 more articles in the media than Standard BioTools. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Quanterix and 6 mentions for Standard BioTools. Quanterix's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Standard BioTools' score of -0.19 indicating that Quanterix is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Quanterix beats Standard BioTools on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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