AQB vs. CLVR, TRVN, CANF, PSTV, PTIX, EFTR, TENX, GRAY, VVOS, and YMTX
Should you be buying AquaBounty Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AquaBounty Technologies include Clever Leaves (CLVR), Trevena (TRVN), Can-Fite BioPharma (CANF), Plus Therapeutics (PSTV), Protagenic Therapeutics (PTIX), eFFECTOR Therapeutics (EFTR), Tenax Therapeutics (TENX), Graybug Vision (GRAY), Vivos Therapeutics (VVOS), and Yumanity Therapeutics (YMTX). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Clever Leaves (NASDAQ:CLVR) and AquaBounty Technologies (NASDAQ:AQB) 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, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, dividends and risk.
AquaBounty Technologies has a consensus price target of $25.00, suggesting a potential upside of 1,273.63%. Given Clever Leaves' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe AquaBounty Technologies is more favorable than Clever Leaves.
6.9% of Clever Leaves shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.9% of AquaBounty Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.2% of Clever Leaves shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of AquaBounty Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Clever Leaves has a beta of 1.54, meaning that its stock price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AquaBounty Technologies has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Clever Leaves has a net margin of -102.77% compared to Clever Leaves' net margin of -1,114.81%. Clever Leaves' return on equity of -15.68% beat AquaBounty Technologies' return on equity.
In the previous week, AquaBounty Technologies had 2 more articles in the media than Clever Leaves. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for AquaBounty Technologies and 0 mentions for Clever Leaves. AquaBounty Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Clever Leaves'average media sentiment score.
Clever Leaves has higher revenue and earnings than AquaBounty Technologies. Clever Leaves is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AquaBounty Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AquaBounty Technologies received 171 more outperform votes than Clever Leaves when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 81.25% of users gave Clever Leaves an outperform vote while only 64.56% of users gave AquaBounty Technologies an outperform vote.
Summary
AquaBounty Technologies beats Clever Leaves on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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