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OvaScience (OVAS) Competitors

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OVAS vs. WVE, OPK, ETNB, GERN, ELVN, NRIX, COLL, MLYS, RCUS, and ZYME

Should you be buying OvaScience stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of OvaScience include Wave Life Sciences (WVE), OPKO Health (OPK), 89bio (ETNB), Geron (GERN), Enliven Therapeutics (ELVN), Nurix Therapeutics (NRIX), Collegium Pharmaceutical (COLL), Mineralys Therapeutics (MLYS), Arcus Biosciences (RCUS), and Zymeworks (ZYME). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.

OvaScience vs.

OvaScience (NASDAQ:OVAS) and Wave Life Sciences (NASDAQ:WVE) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.

In the previous week, Wave Life Sciences had 16 more articles in the media than OvaScience. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Wave Life Sciences and 0 mentions for OvaScience. Wave Life Sciences' average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat OvaScience's score of 0.00 indicating that Wave Life Sciences is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
OvaScience Neutral
Wave Life Sciences Positive

Wave Life Sciences has a consensus price target of $21.17, suggesting a potential upside of 166.58%. Given Wave Life Sciences' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Wave Life Sciences is more favorable than OvaScience.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
OvaScience
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Wave Life Sciences
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
10 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

22.5% of OvaScience shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.7% of Wave Life Sciences shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.4% of OvaScience shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 29.1% of Wave Life Sciences shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Wave Life Sciences received 94 more outperform votes than OvaScience when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.90% of users gave Wave Life Sciences an outperform vote while only 63.87% of users gave OvaScience an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
OvaScienceOutperform Votes
274
63.87%
Underperform Votes
155
36.13%
Wave Life SciencesOutperform Votes
368
67.90%
Underperform Votes
174
32.10%

OvaScience has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Wave Life Sciences.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
OvaScience$290K878.45-$50.97MN/AN/A
Wave Life Sciences$108.30M11.25-$57.51M-$0.79-10.05

OvaScience has a beta of 3.11, suggesting that its share price is 211% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wave Life Sciences has a beta of -0.93, suggesting that its share price is 193% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Wave Life Sciences has a net margin of -66.50% compared to OvaScience's net margin of -10,128.37%. OvaScience's return on equity of -47.06% beat Wave Life Sciences' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
OvaScience-10,128.37% -47.06% -42.39%
Wave Life Sciences -66.50%-280.57%-52.90%

Summary

Wave Life Sciences beats OvaScience on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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OVAS vs. The Competition

MetricOvaSciencePharmaceutical Preparations IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$254.75M$6.69B$5.47B$7.92B
Dividend YieldN/A3.05%5.11%4.22%
P/E RatioN/A7.3222.5118.54
Price / Sales878.45241.49397.62103.35
Price / CashN/A65.8538.1834.62
Price / Book3.956.486.734.25
Net Income-$50.97M$143.41M$3.22B$248.18M

OvaScience Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
OVAS
OvaScience
N/A$7.11
-3.1%
N/A+111.5%$254.75M$290,000.000.00N/A
WVE
Wave Life Sciences
4.314 of 5 stars
$6.56
+7.2%
$22.18
+238.1%
+56.6%$1.01B$108.30M-5.91240Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
Positive News
OPK
OPKO Health
4.4752 of 5 stars
$1.43
+4.4%
$2.75
+92.3%
+13.1%$960.32M$713.14M-7.534,200Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
Gap Down
ETNB
89bio
2.9783 of 5 stars
$6.55
+4.5%
$27.25
+316.0%
-5.8%$956.20MN/A-2.2540Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Upgrade
News Coverage
Positive News
GERN
Geron
3.9984 of 5 stars
$1.41
+4.4%
$5.75
+307.8%
-64.1%$898.05M$76.99M-4.4170Upcoming Earnings
ELVN
Enliven Therapeutics
2.2596 of 5 stars
$17.97
+10.8%
$40.33
+124.4%
+8.9%$880.60MN/A-9.4650News Coverage
NRIX
Nurix Therapeutics
1.9305 of 5 stars
$11.46
+8.6%
$30.44
+165.7%
-4.1%$873.67M$56.42M-3.97300Analyst Forecast
Positive News
Gap Down
COLL
Collegium Pharmaceutical
4.0384 of 5 stars
$26.89
-0.1%
$43.60
+62.1%
-26.9%$864.03M$631.45M11.59210Upcoming Earnings
Positive News
MLYS
Mineralys Therapeutics
2.3833 of 5 stars
$13.21
-0.2%
$33.00
+149.8%
+16.0%$857.01MN/A-3.6328Upcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↑
RCUS
Arcus Biosciences
2.2787 of 5 stars
$8.11
+5.1%
$30.25
+273.2%
-42.6%$852.14M$258M-2.57500Upcoming Earnings
ZYME
Zymeworks
2.7638 of 5 stars
$12.16
+3.5%
$21.00
+72.7%
+51.6%$846.06M$76.30M-8.11460Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Revision
Positive News

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