Sana Biotechnology (NASDAQ:SANA) versus Tectonic Therapeutic (NASDAQ:TECX) Head to Head Analysis

Sana Biotechnology (NASDAQ:SANA) and Tectonic Therapeutic (NASDAQ:TECX) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability and risk.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Sana Biotechnology and Tectonic Therapeutic”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Sana Biotechnology	N/A	N/A	-$283.26 million	($1.40)	-1.86
Tectonic Therapeutic	N/A	N/A	$12.16 million	($5.89)	-8.17

Tectonic Therapeutic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sana Biotechnology, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares Sana Biotechnology and Tectonic Therapeutic’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Sana Biotechnology	N/A	-84.22%	-44.97%
Tectonic Therapeutic	N/A	-35.53%	-31.97%

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for Sana Biotechnology and Tectonic Therapeutic, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Sana Biotechnology	0	1	3	0	2.75
Tectonic Therapeutic	0	0	5	1	3.17

Sana Biotechnology currently has a consensus price target of $13.50, indicating a potential upside of 417.24%. Tectonic Therapeutic has a consensus price target of $72.25, indicating a potential upside of 50.21%. Given Sana Biotechnology’s higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Sana Biotechnology is more favorable than Tectonic Therapeutic.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

88.2% of Sana Biotechnology shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.6% of Tectonic Therapeutic shares are owned by institutional investors. 31.1% of Sana Biotechnology shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.2% of Tectonic Therapeutic shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk and Volatility

Sana Biotechnology has a beta of 1.44, suggesting that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tectonic Therapeutic has a beta of 2.6, suggesting that its share price is 160% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Tectonic Therapeutic beats Sana Biotechnology on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Sana Biotechnology

Sana Biotechnology, Inc., a biotechnology company, focuses on utilizing engineered cells as medicines. It develops ex vivo and in vivo cell engineering platforms for various therapeutic areas with unmet treatment needs, including oncology, diabetes, central nervous system disorders, B-cell-mediated autoimmune, and others. The company’s product candidates include SC291 that is used as allogeneic cell therapies for hematologic malignancies; ARDENT for a potential treatment for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and chronic lymphoblastic leukemia; GLEAM, to treat multiple autoimmune disorders that involve production of autoimmune antibodies, including lupus nephritis, extrarenal lupus, antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody -associated vasculitis, and others. It is developing SC262 to treat patients with relapsed and/or refractory B-cell malignancies; SC255 for multiple myeloma treatment; SC379, a therapy for patients with certain central nervous system disorders healthy allogeneic glial progenitor cells; SC451, a product candidate to treat diabetes, with an initial focus on type 1 diabetes mellitus; and UP421 that reduces long-term exogenous insulin dependence. The company has an option and license agreement with Beam Therapeutics Inc. for use of Beam’s proprietary CRISPR Cas12b nuclease editing technology to research, develop, and commercialize engineered cell therapy products; and a license agreement with Harvard College to access certain intellectual property for the development of hypoimmune-modified cells. The company was formerly known as FD Therapeutics, Inc. and changed its name to Sana Biotechnology, Inc. in September 2018. Sana Biotechnology, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

About Tectonic Therapeutic

Avrobio, Inc. is a bio-technology company. It develops step-change cell and gene therapies for the treatment of cancer and rare disease. The company operates primarily in the United States and Canada. Avrobio, Inc. is based in MA, United States.