AGTI vs. VIR, GMTX, BKD, KNSA, GYRE, OMCL, ANIP, ALHC, AKRO, and FDMT
Should you be buying Agiliti stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Agiliti include Vir Biotechnology (VIR), Gemini Therapeutics (GMTX), Brookdale Senior Living (BKD), Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals (KNSA), Gyre Therapeutics (GYRE), Omnicell (OMCL), ANI Pharmaceuticals (ANIP), Alignment Healthcare (ALHC), Akero Therapeutics (AKRO), and 4D Molecular Therapeutics (FDMT). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Vir Biotechnology (NASDAQ:VIR) and Agiliti (NYSE:AGTI) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, earnings, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
65.3% of Vir Biotechnology shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.1% of Agiliti shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.6% of Vir Biotechnology shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of Agiliti shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Vir Biotechnology presently has a consensus price target of $33.57, indicating a potential upside of 238.08%. Agiliti has a consensus price target of $14.17, indicating a potential upside of 40.96%. Given Agiliti's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Vir Biotechnology is more favorable than Agiliti.
Agiliti has higher revenue and earnings than Vir Biotechnology. Agiliti is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vir Biotechnology, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Agiliti received 3 more outperform votes than Vir Biotechnology when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.33% of users gave Agiliti an outperform vote while only 48.15% of users gave Vir Biotechnology an outperform vote.
Vir Biotechnology has a beta of 0.47, suggesting that its stock price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Agiliti has a beta of 1.9, suggesting that its stock price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Vir Biotechnology had 2 more articles in the media than Agiliti. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Vir Biotechnology and 1 mentions for Agiliti. Agiliti's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Vir Biotechnology's score of 0.50 indicating that Vir Biotechnology is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Agiliti has a net margin of -1.65% compared to Agiliti's net margin of -677.69%. Vir Biotechnology's return on equity of 6.47% beat Agiliti's return on equity.
Summary
Agiliti beats Vir Biotechnology on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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