PRTC vs. GNS, ONT, ERGO, SLN, OXB, HZD, FARN, VRP, ARIX, and 4BB
Should you be buying PureTech Health stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PureTech Health include Genus (GNS), Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT), 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 4basebio (4BB). These companies are all part of the "biotechnology" industry.
PureTech Health vs.
Genus (LON:GNS) and PureTech Health (LON:PRTC) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, risk, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Genus presently has a consensus target price of GBX 2,150, suggesting a potential upside of 4.88%. PureTech Health has a consensus target price of GBX 455, suggesting a potential upside of 240.06%. Given PureTech Health's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe PureTech Health is more favorable than Genus.
Genus has a beta of 0.37, indicating that its stock price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PureTech Health has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
77.8% of Genus shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.9% of PureTech Health shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Genus shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.9% of PureTech Health shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Genus has higher revenue and earnings than PureTech Health. PureTech Health is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Genus, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PureTech Health received 177 more outperform votes than Genus when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 86.60% of users gave PureTech Health an outperform vote while only 70.60% of users gave Genus an outperform vote.
Genus has a net margin of 1.18% compared to PureTech Health's net margin of -17,620.94%. Genus' return on equity of 1.41% beat PureTech Health's return on equity.
In the previous week, Genus and Genus both had 1 articles in the media. Genus' average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat PureTech Health's score of 0.00 indicating that Genus is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Genus beats PureTech Health on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:PRTC) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff