MGEN vs. BDSX, BNR, PSNL, ENZ, XGN, RNLX, PMD, DMTK, BGLC, and OPGN
Should you be buying Miragen Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Miragen Therapeutics include Biodesix (BDSX), Burning Rock Biotech (BNR), Personalis (PSNL), Enzo Biochem (ENZ), Exagen (XGN), Renalytix (RNLX), Psychemedics (PMD), DermTech (DMTK), BioNexus Gene Lab (BGLC), and OpGen (OPGN).
Miragen Therapeutics (NASDAQ:MGEN) and Biodesix (NASDAQ:BDSX) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends, valuation and community ranking.
Miragen Therapeutics has a beta of 1.66, indicating that its stock price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Biodesix has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Biodesix has a net margin of -85.80% compared to Miragen Therapeutics' net margin of -1,393.50%. Miragen Therapeutics' return on equity of -141.66% beat Biodesix's return on equity.
Miragen Therapeutics received 240 more outperform votes than Biodesix when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.97% of users gave Biodesix an outperform vote while only 70.45% of users gave Miragen Therapeutics an outperform vote.
Biodesix has a consensus price target of $3.10, indicating a potential upside of 116.78%. Given Biodesix's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Biodesix is more favorable than Miragen Therapeutics.
In the previous week, Biodesix had 2 more articles in the media than Miragen Therapeutics. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Biodesix and 0 mentions for Miragen Therapeutics. Biodesix's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Miragen Therapeutics' score of 0.00 indicating that Biodesix is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Miragen Therapeutics has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Biodesix. Biodesix is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Miragen Therapeutics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
21.0% of Biodesix shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Miragen Therapeutics shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 69.2% of Biodesix shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Biodesix beats Miragen Therapeutics on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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