HLS vs. CRDL, CPH, OGI, CWEB, ACB, GUD, SVA, MDNA, EDT, and ONC
Should you be buying HLS Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HLS Therapeutics include Cardiol Therapeutics (CRDL), Cipher Pharmaceuticals (CPH), Organigram (OGI), Charlotte's Web (CWEB), Aurora Cannabis (ACB), Knight Therapeutics (GUD), Sernova (SVA), Medicenna Therapeutics (MDNA), Spectral Medical (EDT), and Oncolytics Biotech (ONC). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
HLS Therapeutics (TSE:HLS) and Cardiol Therapeutics (TSE:CRDL) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability and media sentiment.
HLS Therapeutics received 25 more outperform votes than Cardiol Therapeutics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.83% of users gave HLS Therapeutics an outperform vote while only 69.23% of users gave Cardiol Therapeutics an outperform vote.
HLS Therapeutics currently has a consensus price target of C$4.58, indicating a potential downside of 3.68%. Given HLS Therapeutics' higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe HLS Therapeutics is more favorable than Cardiol Therapeutics.
Cardiol Therapeutics has a net margin of 0.00% compared to HLS Therapeutics' net margin of -43.65%. HLS Therapeutics' return on equity of -24.69% beat Cardiol Therapeutics' return on equity.
HLS Therapeutics has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cardiol Therapeutics has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Cardiol Therapeutics had 4 more articles in the media than HLS Therapeutics. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Cardiol Therapeutics and 0 mentions for HLS Therapeutics. HLS Therapeutics' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Cardiol Therapeutics'average media sentiment score.
59.6% of HLS Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.4% of Cardiol Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of HLS Therapeutics shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of Cardiol Therapeutics shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
HLS Therapeutics has higher revenue and earnings than Cardiol Therapeutics. Cardiol Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HLS Therapeutics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
HLS Therapeutics beats Cardiol Therapeutics on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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