Solid Biosciences (NASDAQ:SLDB – Get Free Report) and SOPHiA GENETICS (NASDAQ:SOPH – Get Free Report) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation and dividends.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
81.5% of Solid Biosciences shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.6% of SOPHiA GENETICS shares are held by institutional investors. 13.6% of Solid Biosciences shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.9% of SOPHiA GENETICS 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.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Solid Biosciences and SOPHiA GENETICS, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Solid Biosciences | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 3.11 |
| SOPHiA GENETICS | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2.75 |
Profitability
This table compares Solid Biosciences and SOPHiA GENETICS’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Solid Biosciences | N/A | -53.76% | -43.74% |
| SOPHiA GENETICS | -102.84% | -47.40% | -34.54% |
Risk & Volatility
Solid Biosciences has a beta of 1.84, indicating that its share price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SOPHiA GENETICS has a beta of 1.06, indicating that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Solid Biosciences and SOPHiA GENETICS’s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Solid Biosciences | $8.09 million | 45.61 | -$96.01 million | ($3.94) | -2.43 |
| SOPHiA GENETICS | $64.94 million | 3.77 | -$78.98 million | ($1.12) | -3.34 |
SOPHiA GENETICS has higher revenue and earnings than Solid Biosciences. SOPHiA GENETICS is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Solid Biosciences, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Solid Biosciences beats SOPHiA GENETICS on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Solid Biosciences
Solid Biosciences Inc., a life science company, develops therapies for neuromuscular and cardiac diseases in the United States. The company's lead product candidate is SGT-003, a gene transfer candidate for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy; and SGT-501 to treat Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia. It is also developing AVB-401 for the treatment of BAG3-mediated dilated cardiomyopathy; SGT-601 to treat a rare cardiac disease characterized by mutations in the gene that codes for cardiac troponin T protein, which helps coordinate contraction of the heart muscle; SGT-701 for treatment of rare inherited disease characterized by mutations in the RBM20 gene, a cardiac splicing factor that regulates alternative splicing, and codes for RNA binding motif protein 20; and AVB-202-TT to treat Friedreich's ataxia, as well as other drugs for the treatment of cardiac and other diseases. In addition, the company is involved in developing platform technologies, including capsid libraries and dual gene expression, a technology for packaging multiple transgenes into one capsid. The company has collaboration and license agreement with Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. to develop and commercialize new gene therapies for Duchenne; and a license agreement with the University of Washington, University of Missouri, and University of Florida. Solid Biosciences Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in Charlestown, Massachusetts.
About SOPHiA GENETICS
SOPHiA GENETICS SA operates as a cloud-native software technology company in the healthcare space. The company offers SOPHiA DDM platform, a cloud-native software platform for analyzing data and generating insights from multimodal data sets and diagnostic modalities. Its SOPHiA DDM platform and related solutions, applications, products, and services are used by hospitals, laboratories, and biopharmaceutical companies through its own sales force as well as distributors and industry collaborators in Switzerland, France, Italy, rest of Europe, North America, the United States, Latin America, and the Asia-pacific. SOPHiA GENETICS SA was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in Rolle, Switzerland.
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