PRTC vs. GNS, ONT, 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 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 Circassia Group (CIR). These companies are all part of the "biotechnology" industry.
PureTech Health vs. Its Competitors
Genus (LON:GNS) and PureTech Health (LON:PRTC) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings and dividends.
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.
Genus presently has a consensus target price of GBX 2,150, indicating a potential upside of 9.36%. PureTech Health has a consensus target price of GBX 455, indicating a potential upside of 254.36%. Given PureTech Health's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe PureTech Health is more favorable than Genus.
77.8% of Genus shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.9% of PureTech Health shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Genus shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 15.9% of PureTech Health shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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 had 1 more articles in the media than PureTech Health. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Genus and 0 mentions for PureTech Health. Genus' average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat PureTech Health's score of 0.00 indicating that Genus is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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.
Summary
Genus beats PureTech Health on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:PRTC) was last updated on 6/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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