TCRT vs. MEIP, SLGL, BIVI, SYBX, KALA, RNXT, APM, FLGC, GLTO, and TXMD
Should you be buying Alaunos Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alaunos Therapeutics include MEI Pharma (MEIP), Sol-Gel Technologies (SLGL), BioVie (BIVI), Synlogic (SYBX), KALA BIO (KALA), RenovoRx (RNXT), Aptorum Group (APM), Flora Growth (FLGC), Galecto (GLTO), and TherapeuticsMD (TXMD). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
MEI Pharma (NASDAQ:MEIP) and Alaunos Therapeutics (NASDAQ:TCRT) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and community ranking.
MEI Pharma has a net margin of 39.06% compared to MEI Pharma's net margin of 0.00%. Alaunos Therapeutics' return on equity of 39.72% beat MEI Pharma's return on equity.
MEI Pharma has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alaunos Therapeutics has a beta of -0.26, meaning that its share price is 126% less volatile than the S&P 500.
MEI Pharma presently has a consensus price target of $7.00, suggesting a potential upside of 120.13%. Given Alaunos Therapeutics' higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe MEI Pharma is more favorable than Alaunos Therapeutics.
MEI Pharma received 368 more outperform votes than Alaunos Therapeutics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.68% of users gave MEI Pharma an outperform vote while only 58.33% of users gave Alaunos Therapeutics an outperform vote.
52.4% of MEI Pharma shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.7% of Alaunos Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. 3.9% of MEI Pharma shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.2% of Alaunos Therapeutics shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
MEI Pharma has higher revenue and earnings than Alaunos Therapeutics. Alaunos Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MEI Pharma, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, MEI Pharma had 2 more articles in the media than Alaunos Therapeutics. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for MEI Pharma and 0 mentions for Alaunos Therapeutics. Alaunos Therapeutics' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled MEI Pharma'saverage media sentiment score.
Summary
MEI Pharma beats Alaunos Therapeutics on 13 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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