PSTX vs. CADL, GLUE, ADAP, IVVD, STRO, FENC, CHRS, AVXL, AGEN, and MGX
Should you be buying Poseida Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Poseida Therapeutics include Candel Therapeutics (CADL), Monte Rosa Therapeutics (GLUE), Adaptimmune Therapeutics (ADAP), Invivyd (IVVD), Sutro Biopharma (STRO), Fennec Pharmaceuticals (FENC), Coherus BioSciences (CHRS), Anavex Life Sciences (AVXL), Agenus (AGEN), and Metagenomi (MGX). These companies are all part of the "biological products, except diagnostic" industry.
Candel Therapeutics (NASDAQ:CADL) and Poseida Therapeutics (NASDAQ:PSTX) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, earnings and risk.
13.9% of Candel Therapeutics shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.9% of Poseida Therapeutics shares are owned by institutional investors. 44.6% of Candel Therapeutics shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Poseida Therapeutics shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Candel Therapeutics has a beta of -0.94, indicating that its share price is 194% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Poseida Therapeutics has a beta of 0.46, indicating that its share price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Candel Therapeutics presently has a consensus target price of $11.00, suggesting a potential downside of 21.43%. Poseida Therapeutics has a consensus target price of $14.67, suggesting a potential upside of 323.89%. Given Candel Therapeutics' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Poseida Therapeutics is more favorable than Candel Therapeutics.
In the previous week, Candel Therapeutics had 3 more articles in the media than Poseida Therapeutics. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Candel Therapeutics and 6 mentions for Poseida Therapeutics. Poseida Therapeutics' average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Candel Therapeutics' score of 0.65 indicating that Candel Therapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Candel Therapeutics has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Poseida Therapeutics. Candel Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Poseida Therapeutics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Candel Therapeutics has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Candel Therapeutics' net margin of -190.76%. Candel Therapeutics' return on equity of -94.90% beat Poseida Therapeutics' return on equity.
Poseida Therapeutics received 25 more outperform votes than Candel Therapeutics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.71% of users gave Poseida Therapeutics an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave Candel Therapeutics an outperform vote.
Summary
Poseida Therapeutics beats Candel Therapeutics on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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