PRTC vs. ONT, GNS, ERGO, SLN, OXB, HZD, FARN, VRP, ARIX, and CIR
Should you be buying PureTech Health stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PureTech Health include Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT), Genus (GNS), Ergomed (ERGO), Silence Therapeutics (SLN), Oxford Biomedica (OXB), Horizon Discovery Group plc (HZD.L) (HZD), Faron Pharmaceuticals Oy (FARN), Verona Pharma plc (VRP.L) (VRP), Arix Bioscience (ARIX), and Circassia Group (CIR). These companies are all part of the "biotechnology" industry.
PureTech Health vs.
PureTech Health (LON:PRTC) and Oxford Nanopore Technologies (LON:ONT) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, profitability, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings and media sentiment.
PureTech Health has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Oxford Nanopore Technologies has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
79.9% of PureTech Health shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.4% of Oxford Nanopore Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 15.9% of PureTech Health shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 32.6% of Oxford Nanopore Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
PureTech Health has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Oxford Nanopore Technologies. Oxford Nanopore Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PureTech Health, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, PureTech Health had 1 more articles in the media than Oxford Nanopore Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for PureTech Health and 0 mentions for Oxford Nanopore Technologies. PureTech Health's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Oxford Nanopore Technologies' score of 0.00 indicating that PureTech Health is being referred to more favorably in the media.
PureTech Health currently has a consensus price target of GBX 455, indicating a potential upside of 258.27%. Oxford Nanopore Technologies has a consensus price target of GBX 233.33, indicating a potential upside of 97.07%. Given PureTech Health's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe PureTech Health is more favorable than Oxford Nanopore Technologies.
PureTech Health received 496 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 86.60% of users gave PureTech Health an outperform vote.
Oxford Nanopore Technologies has a net margin of -94.82% compared to PureTech Health's net margin of -17,620.94%. PureTech Health's return on equity of -21.15% beat Oxford Nanopore Technologies' return on equity.
Summary
PureTech Health beats Oxford Nanopore Technologies on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:PRTC) was last updated on 5/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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