GRTS vs. ATRA, BLUE, CLLS, REPL, TNYA, MGTX, SLDB, PSTX, ADAP, and BDTX
Should you be buying Gritstone bio stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gritstone bio include Atara Biotherapeutics (ATRA), bluebird bio (BLUE), Cellectis (CLLS), Replimune Group (REPL), Tenaya Therapeutics (TNYA), MeiraGTx (MGTX), Solid Biosciences (SLDB), Poseida Therapeutics (PSTX), Adaptimmune Therapeutics (ADAP), and Black Diamond Therapeutics (BDTX). These companies are all part of the "biological products, except diagnostic" industry.
Gritstone bio (NASDAQ:GRTS) and Atara Biotherapeutics (NASDAQ:ATRA) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, dividends, earnings and valuation.
Gritstone bio has higher revenue and earnings than Atara Biotherapeutics. Gritstone bio is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Atara Biotherapeutics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gritstone bio currently has a consensus target price of $4.75, indicating a potential upside of 512.82%. Atara Biotherapeutics has a consensus target price of $28.00, indicating a potential upside of 4,789.98%. Given Atara Biotherapeutics' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Atara Biotherapeutics is more favorable than Gritstone bio.
48.5% of Gritstone bio shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.9% of Atara Biotherapeutics shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.6% of Gritstone bio shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of Atara Biotherapeutics shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Atara Biotherapeutics has a net margin of -671.70% compared to Gritstone bio's net margin of -926.13%. Gritstone bio's return on equity of -232.42% beat Atara Biotherapeutics' return on equity.
Gritstone bio has a beta of 0.58, meaning that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Atara Biotherapeutics has a beta of 0.54, meaning that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Gritstone bio had 1 more articles in the media than Atara Biotherapeutics. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Gritstone bio and 2 mentions for Atara Biotherapeutics. Atara Biotherapeutics' average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Gritstone bio's score of 0.72 indicating that Atara Biotherapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Atara Biotherapeutics received 288 more outperform votes than Gritstone bio when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.46% of users gave Gritstone bio an outperform vote while only 67.56% of users gave Atara Biotherapeutics an outperform vote.
Summary
Gritstone bio beats Atara Biotherapeutics on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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