TKNO vs. VNRX, ABIO, ICCC, CODX, AWH, OCX, DMTK, AXDX, ACHV, and RVPH
Should you be buying Alpha Teknova stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alpha Teknova include VolitionRx (VNRX), ARCA biopharma (ABIO), ImmuCell (ICCC), Co-Diagnostics (CODX), Aspira Women's Health (AWH), OncoCyte (OCX), DermTech (DMTK), Accelerate Diagnostics (AXDX), Achieve Life Sciences (ACHV), and Reviva Pharmaceuticals (RVPH). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
VolitionRx (NYSE:VNRX) and Alpha Teknova (NASDAQ:TKNO) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.
VolitionRx presently has a consensus price target of $2.50, suggesting a potential upside of 201.57%. Given Alpha Teknova's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe VolitionRx is more favorable than Alpha Teknova.
Alpha Teknova received 3 more outperform votes than VolitionRx when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 30.00% of users gave Alpha Teknova an outperform vote while only 25.00% of users gave VolitionRx an outperform vote.
8.1% of VolitionRx shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.8% of Alpha Teknova shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.4% of VolitionRx shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 15.2% of Alpha Teknova shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
VolitionRx has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Alpha Teknova. VolitionRx is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alpha Teknova, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
VolitionRx has a beta of 1.26, indicating that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alpha Teknova has a beta of 0.39, indicating that its share price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Alpha Teknova had 3 more articles in the media than VolitionRx. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Alpha Teknova and 2 mentions for VolitionRx. VolitionRx's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Alpha Teknova's score of 0.30 indicating that Alpha Teknova is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Alpha Teknova has a net margin of -100.26% compared to Alpha Teknova's net margin of -4,557.29%. Alpha Teknova's return on equity of 0.00% beat VolitionRx's return on equity.
Summary
VolitionRx and Alpha Teknova tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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