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SPCE vs. CLOV, RKLB, ASC, SB, CLCO, ESEA, BLDE, PANL, PAMT, and GASS

Should you be buying Virgin Galactic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Virgin Galactic include Clover Health Investments (CLOV), Rocket Lab (RKLB), Ardmore Shipping (ASC), Safe Bulkers (SB), Cool (CLCO), Euroseas (ESEA), Blade Air Mobility (BLDE), Pangaea Logistics Solutions (PANL), PAMT (PAMT), and StealthGas (GASS).

Virgin Galactic vs. Its Competitors

Clover Health Investments (NASDAQ:CLOV) and Virgin Galactic (NYSE:SPCE) are related small-cap companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, risk, profitability, earnings and media sentiment.

Clover Health Investments has a beta of 1.86, meaning that its share price is 86% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Virgin Galactic has a beta of 2.09, meaning that its share price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Clover Health Investments currently has a consensus price target of $4.83, suggesting a potential upside of 60.04%. Virgin Galactic has a consensus price target of $4.81, suggesting a potential upside of 47.85%. Given Clover Health Investments' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Clover Health Investments is more favorable than Virgin Galactic.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Clover Health Investments
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67
Virgin Galactic
1 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

19.8% of Clover Health Investments shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.6% of Virgin Galactic shares are owned by institutional investors. 24.1% of Clover Health Investments shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Virgin Galactic shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Clover Health Investments had 4 more articles in the media than Virgin Galactic. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Clover Health Investments and 0 mentions for Virgin Galactic. Clover Health Investments' average media sentiment score of 0.41 beat Virgin Galactic's score of 0.00 indicating that Clover Health Investments is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Clover Health Investments Neutral
Virgin Galactic Neutral

Clover Health Investments has higher revenue and earnings than Virgin Galactic. Clover Health Investments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Virgin Galactic, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Clover Health Investments$1.37B1.12-$43.01M-$0.05-60.40
Virgin Galactic$7.04M19.22-$346.74M-$11.93-0.27

Clover Health Investments has a net margin of -1.69% compared to Virgin Galactic's net margin of -5,972.70%. Clover Health Investments' return on equity of -7.42% beat Virgin Galactic's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Clover Health Investments-1.69% -7.42% -4.00%
Virgin Galactic -5,972.70%-97.17%-33.39%

Summary

Clover Health Investments beats Virgin Galactic on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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SPCE vs. The Competition

MetricVirgin GalacticAEROSP/DEFENSE IndustryAerospace SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$131.38M$44.67B$26.85B$20.61B
Dividend YieldN/A1.17%0.98%3.68%
P/E Ratio-0.2717.8581.2527.27
Price / Sales19.223.956.8967.02
Price / CashN/A25.2135.2921.88
Price / Book0.336.008.584.60
Net Income-$346.74M$586.89M$369.21M$995.22M
7 Day Performance6.55%1.25%2.42%-1.55%
1 Month Performance9.78%7.05%8.28%4.38%
1 Year Performance-54.48%33.65%51.58%8.12%

Virgin Galactic Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SPCE
Virgin Galactic
1.9516 of 5 stars
$3.26
+3.0%
$4.81
+47.8%
-59.5%$131.38M$7.04M-0.27800
CLOV
Clover Health Investments
1.9457 of 5 stars
$2.86
+11.5%
$4.83
+69.3%
+74.6%$1.45B$1.37B-57.10680High Trading Volume
RKLB
Rocket Lab
2.6917 of 5 stars
$38.52
+8.0%
$30.40
-21.1%
+747.1%$17.42B$436.21M-96.042,100Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
ASC
Ardmore Shipping
4.3745 of 5 stars
$10.39
+1.3%
$13.67
+31.6%
-51.9%$421.84M$405.78M4.55990
SB
Safe Bulkers
4.1926 of 5 stars
$3.79
+0.1%
$4.47
+18.0%
-29.7%$398.56M$307.63M5.65920
CLCO
Cool
2.1646 of 5 stars
$6.89
-0.9%
N/A-45.0%$369.99M$338.50M10.131,647
ESEA
Euroseas
4.7855 of 5 stars
$48.41
+1.9%
$61.00
+26.0%
+23.8%$339.35M$212.90M2.61360
BLDE
Blade Air Mobility
3.0184 of 5 stars
$4.17
-0.4%
$6.25
+50.1%
+29.1%$337.45M$248.69M-12.25130Positive News
PANL
Pangaea Logistics Solutions
3.5773 of 5 stars
$5.04
-1.9%
N/A-34.0%$330.73M$536.54M14.82570Positive News
PAMT
PAMT
0.3674 of 5 stars
$13.83
-2.7%
$12.50
-9.6%
N/A$301.36M$714.65M-7.522,304News Coverage
GASS
StealthGas
3.687 of 5 stars
$6.57
+1.9%
N/A-3.7%$242.48M$167.26M3.64N/APositive News

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This page (NYSE:SPCE) was last updated on 7/17/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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