OmniAb (NASDAQ:OABI – Get Rating) and U.S. Stem Cell (OTCMKTS:USRM – Get Rating) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of current recommendations for OmniAb and U.S. Stem Cell, as reported by MarketBeat.
Get OmniAb alerts:| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| OmniAb | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3.00 |
| U.S. Stem Cell | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
OmniAb presently has a consensus target price of $10.25, suggesting a potential upside of 217.34%. Given OmniAb's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe OmniAb is more favorable than U.S. Stem Cell.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
42.3% of OmniAb shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.7% of U.S. Stem Cell shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.Earnings & Valuation
This table compares OmniAb and U.S. Stem Cell's revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| OmniAb | N/A | N/A | -$520,000.00 | N/A | N/A |
| U.S. Stem Cell | $200,000.00 | 16.02 | -$3.29 million | N/A | N/A |
OmniAb has higher earnings, but lower revenue than U.S. Stem Cell.
Volatility and Risk
OmniAb has a beta of -1.2, meaning that its share price is 220% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, U.S. Stem Cell has a beta of -0.6, meaning that its share price is 160% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares OmniAb and U.S. Stem Cell's net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| OmniAb | N/A | N/A | -3.50% |
| U.S. Stem Cell | -3,416.66% | N/A | -2,688.69% |
Summary
OmniAb beats U.S. Stem Cell on 6 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.
About OmniAb
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OmniAb, Inc., a biotechnology company, provides therapeutic antibody discovery technologies in the United States. The company's discovery platform provides industry partners access to the diverse antibody repertoires and screening technologies to enable discovery of next-generation therapeutics. Its OmniAb platform is the biological intelligence of proprietary transgenic animals, including OmniRat, OmniChicken, and OmniMouse that have been genetically modified to generate antibodies with human sequences to facilitate development of human therapeutic candidates. The company's OmniFlic (transgenic rat) and OmniClic (transgenic chicken) address industry needs for bispecific antibody applications though a common light chain approach, and OmniTaur that features unique structural attributes of cow antibodies for complex targets. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Emeryville, California.
About U.S. Stem Cell
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U.S. Stem Cell, Inc., a biotechnology company, focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of autologous cellular therapies for the treatment of chronic and acute heart damage, and vascular and autoimmune diseases in the United States. The company's lead product candidates include MyoCell, a clinical therapy designed to populate regions of scar tissue within a patient's heart with autologous muscle cells or cells from a patient's body for enhancing cardiac function in chronic heart failure patients; and AdipoCell, a patient-derived cell therapy for the treatment of acute myocardial infarction, chronic heart ischemia, and lower limb ischemia. Its product development pipeline includes MyoCell SDF-1, an autologous muscle-derived cellular therapy for improving cardiac function in chronic heart failure patients. The company is also developing MyoCath, a deflecting tip needle injection catheter that is used to inject cells into cardiac tissue in therapeutic procedures to treat chronic heart ischemia and congestive heart failure. In addition, it provides physician and patient based regenerative medicine/cell therapy training, cell collection, and cell storage services; and cell collection and treatment kits for humans and animals, as well as operates a cell therapy clinic to provide cellular treatments for patients afflicted with neurological, autoimmune, orthopedic, and degenerative diseases. The company was formerly known as Bioheart, Inc. and changed its name to U.S. Stem Cell, Inc. in October 2015. U.S. Stem Cell, Inc. was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Sunrise, Florida.
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