Anixa Biosciences (NASDAQ:ANIX) & Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) Head-To-Head Analysis

Anixa Biosciences (NASDAQ:ANIX) and Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) are both medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, risk, profitability and dividends.

Volatility and Risk

Anixa Biosciences has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Johnson & Johnson has a beta of 0.52, indicating that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Anixa Biosciences and Johnson & Johnson, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Anixa Biosciences	0	0	1	1	3.50
Johnson & Johnson	0	6	7	0	2.54

Anixa Biosciences presently has a consensus price target of $7.00, indicating a potential upside of 77.22%. Johnson & Johnson has a consensus price target of $175.93, indicating a potential upside of 9.86%. Given Anixa Biosciences’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Anixa Biosciences is more favorable than Johnson & Johnson.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Anixa Biosciences and Johnson & Johnson”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Anixa Biosciences	$210,000.00	605.27	-$9.81 million	($0.39)	-10.13
Johnson & Johnson	$87.70 billion	4.39	$35.15 billion	$16.04	9.98

Johnson & Johnson has higher revenue and earnings than Anixa Biosciences. Anixa Biosciences is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Johnson & Johnson, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares Anixa Biosciences and Johnson & Johnson’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Anixa Biosciences	N/A	-54.79%	-50.37%
Johnson & Johnson	19.14%	35.46%	14.32%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

29.1% of Anixa Biosciences shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.6% of Johnson & Johnson shares are held by institutional investors. 22.6% of Anixa Biosciences shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Johnson & Johnson shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Johnson & Johnson beats Anixa Biosciences on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Anixa Biosciences

Anixa Biosciences, Inc., a biotechnology company, develops therapies and vaccines focusing on critical unmet needs in oncology and infectious diseases. The company's therapeutics programs include the development of a chimeric endocrine receptor T-cell therapy, a novel form of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) technology focusing on the treatment of ovarian cancer. Its vaccine programs comprise the development of a vaccine against triple negative breast cancer; and a preventative vaccine against ovarian cancer. The company is also developing immuno-therapy drugs against cancer. The company was formerly known as ITUS Corporation and changed its name to Anixa Biosciences, Inc. in October 2018. Anixa Biosciences, Inc. was incorporated in 1982 and is based in San Jose, California.

About Johnson & Johnson

Johnson & Johnson, together with its subsidiaries, researches, develops, manufactures, and sells various products in the healthcare field worldwide. The company's Innovative Medicine segment offers products for various therapeutic areas, such as immunology, including rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, and psoriasis; infectious diseases comprising HIV/AIDS; neuroscience, consisting of mood disorders, neurodegenerative disorders, and schizophrenia; oncology, such as prostate cancer, hematologic malignancies, lung cancer, and bladder cancer; cardiovascular and metabolism, including thrombosis, diabetes, and macular degeneration; and pulmonary hypertension comprising pulmonary arterial hypertension through retailers, wholesalers, distributors, hospitals, and healthcare professionals for prescription use. Its MedTech segment provides Interventional Solutions, including electrophysiology products to treat heart rhythm disorders; the heart recovery portfolio, which includes technologies to treat severe coronary artery disease requiring high-risk PCI or AMI cardiogenic shock; and neurovascular care that treats hemorrhagic and ischemic stroke. this segment also offers an orthopaedics portfolio that includes products and enabling technologies that support hips, knees, trauma, spine, sports, and other; surgery portfolios comprising advanced and general surgery technologies, as well as solutions for breast aesthetics, ear, nose, and throat procedures; contact lenses under the ACUVUE Brand; and TECNIS intraocular lenses for cataract surgery. It distributes its products to wholesalers, hospitals, and retailers, as well as physicians, nurses, hospitals, eye care professionals, and clinics. Johnson & Johnson was founded in 1886 and is based in New Brunswick, New Jersey.