ONT vs. BTG, ABC, GNS, ERGO, SLN, PRTC, OXB, HZD, FARN, and VRP
Should you be buying Oxford Nanopore Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Oxford Nanopore Technologies include BTG (BTG), Abcam (ABC), Genus (GNS), Ergomed (ERGO), Silence Therapeutics (SLN), PureTech Health (PRTC), Oxford Biomedica (OXB), Horizon Discovery Group plc (HZD.L) (HZD), Faron Pharmaceuticals Oy (FARN), and Verona Pharma plc (VRP.L) (VRP). These companies are all part of the "biotechnology" industry.
Oxford Nanopore Technologies vs.
BTG (LON:BTG) and Oxford Nanopore Technologies (LON:ONT) are both medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, community ranking and earnings.
38.4% of Oxford Nanopore Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 32.6% of Oxford Nanopore Technologies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, BTG had 1 more articles in the media than Oxford Nanopore Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for BTG and 2 mentions for Oxford Nanopore Technologies. Oxford Nanopore Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.30 beat BTG's score of -0.07 indicating that Oxford Nanopore Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
BTG received 585 more outperform votes than Oxford Nanopore Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Oxford Nanopore Technologies an outperform vote while only 73.95% of users gave BTG an outperform vote.
Oxford Nanopore Technologies has a consensus target price of GBX 233.33, indicating a potential upside of 85.92%. Given Oxford Nanopore Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Oxford Nanopore Technologies is more favorable than BTG.
BTG has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Oxford Nanopore Technologies' net margin of -94.82%. BTG's return on equity of 0.00% beat Oxford Nanopore Technologies' return on equity.
BTG has higher revenue and earnings than Oxford Nanopore Technologies. Oxford Nanopore Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BTG, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
BTG beats Oxford Nanopore Technologies on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:ONT) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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