SCLP vs. PRTC, HZD, FARN, VRP, AVCT, ARIX, CIR, BVXP, 4BB, and TILS
Should you be buying Scancell stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Scancell include PureTech Health (PRTC), Horizon Discovery Group plc (HZD.L) (HZD), Faron Pharmaceuticals Oy (FARN), Verona Pharma plc (VRP.L) (VRP), Avacta Group (AVCT), Arix Bioscience (ARIX), Circassia Group (CIR), Bioventix (BVXP), 4basebio (4BB), and Tiziana Life Sciences (TILS). These companies are all part of the "biotechnology" industry.
Scancell vs. Its Competitors
Scancell (LON:SCLP) and PureTech Health (LON:PRTC) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.
PureTech Health has a consensus price target of GBX 455, indicating a potential upside of 245.22%. Given PureTech Health's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe PureTech Health is more favorable than Scancell.
46.5% of Scancell shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.9% of PureTech Health shares are held by institutional investors. 5.0% of Scancell 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 large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Scancell has a beta of 0.35, meaning that its share price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PureTech Health has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Scancell has higher earnings, but lower revenue than PureTech Health. Scancell 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, Scancell had 8 more articles in the media than PureTech Health. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Scancell and 1 mentions for PureTech Health. Scancell's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat PureTech Health's score of 0.00 indicating that Scancell is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Scancell has a net margin of 0.00% compared to PureTech Health's net margin of -17,620.94%. Scancell's return on equity of 98.74% beat PureTech Health's return on equity.
Summary
PureTech Health beats Scancell on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:SCLP) was last updated on 8/8/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
