AIMD vs. SHPH, KZIA, IBIO, HILS, YMTX, VCNX, FWBI, CLVR, KA, and ENVB
Should you be buying Ainos stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ainos include Shuttle Pharmaceuticals (SHPH), Kazia Therapeutics (KZIA), iBio (IBIO), Hillstream BioPharma (HILS), Yumanity Therapeutics (YMTX), Vaccinex (VCNX), First Wave BioPharma (FWBI), Clever Leaves (CLVR), Kineta (KA), and Enveric Biosciences (ENVB). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Shuttle Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:SHPH) and Ainos (NASDAQ:AIMD) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Shuttle Pharmaceuticals has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Shuttle Pharmaceuticals' net margin of -11,205.49%. Shuttle Pharmaceuticals' return on equity of -47.96% beat Ainos' return on equity.
4.6% of Shuttle Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. 40.6% of Shuttle Pharmaceuticals shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.6% of Ainos shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Shuttle Pharmaceuticals has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Ainos. Shuttle Pharmaceuticals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ainos, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Shuttle Pharmaceuticals had 1 more articles in the media than Ainos. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Shuttle Pharmaceuticals and 1 mentions for Ainos. Shuttle Pharmaceuticals' average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Ainos' score of 0.00 indicating that Ainos is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Shuttle Pharmaceuticals and Ainos both received 0 outperform votes by MarketBeat users.
Shuttle Pharmaceuticals has a beta of -1.13, indicating that its share price is 213% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ainos has a beta of 1.44, indicating that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Shuttle Pharmaceuticals and Ainos tied by winning 6 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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