Contrasting Elutia (NASDAQ:ELUT) and Twist Bioscience (NASDAQ:TWST)

Elutia (NASDAQ:ELUT) and Twist Bioscience (NASDAQ:TWST) are both medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, valuation, earnings, risk and analyst recommendations.

Profitability

This table compares Elutia and Twist Bioscience’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Elutia	-261.08%	N/A	-159.96%
Twist Bioscience	-74.63%	-32.17%	-25.55%

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Elutia and Twist Bioscience”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Elutia	$24.99 million	3.05	-$37.66 million	($2.37)	-1.32
Twist Bioscience	$245.11 million	9.82	-$204.62 million	($3.82)	-10.76

Elutia has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Twist Bioscience. Twist Bioscience is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Elutia, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Risk & Volatility

Elutia has a beta of 0.73, suggesting that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Twist Bioscience has a beta of 1.77, suggesting that its share price is 77% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Elutia and Twist Bioscience, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Elutia	0	0	2	0	3.00
Twist Bioscience	1	1	7	0	2.67

Elutia currently has a consensus price target of $10.00, suggesting a potential upside of 218.47%. Twist Bioscience has a consensus price target of $51.22, suggesting a potential upside of 24.66%. Given Elutia’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Elutia is more favorable than Twist Bioscience.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

74.0% of Elutia shares are owned by institutional investors. 40.8% of Elutia shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.9% of Twist Bioscience shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Elutia beats Twist Bioscience on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Elutia

Elutia Inc., a commercial-stage company, develops and commercializes drug-eluting biologics products for neurostimulation, wound care, and breast reconstruction in the United States. The company operates in three segments: Device Protection; Women's Health; and Cardiovascular. It offers CanGaroo Envelope, which is used to accommodate cardiac implantable electronic devices, such as pacemakers and internal defibrillators. The company also develops CanGarooRM, a combination of the CanGaroo envelope with antibiotics, to reduce the risk of infection after surgical implantation of an electronic device. In addition, it provides ProxiCor for cardiac tissue repair and pericardial closure; Tyke, an extracellular material that is used in the repair of cardiac structures for neonate and infant patients; and VasCure, a patch material to repair or reconstruct the peripheral vasculature. Further, the company offers SimpliDerm, which uses human acellular dermal matrices for tissue repair and reconstruction in various applications, such as sports medicine, hernia repair, trauma reconstruction, and breast reconstruction surgeries following mastectomy. It serves hospitals and healthcare facilities through its direct sales force, independent sales agents, and distributors. The company was formerly known as Aziyo Biologics, Inc. and changed its name to Elutia Inc. in September 2023. Elutia Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland.

About Twist Bioscience

Twist Bioscience Corporation engages in the manufacture and sale of synthetic DNA-based products. The company offers synthetic genes and gene fragments used in product development for therapeutics, diagnostics, chemicals/materials, food/agriculture, data storage, and various applications within academic research by biotech, pharma, industrial chemical, and agricultural companies, as well as academic labs; Oligo pools used in targeted NGS, CRISPR gene editing, mutagenesis experiments, DNA origami, DNA computing, data storage in DNA, and other applications; and immunoglobulin G proteins for customers focused on the pursuit of drug discovery and development. It also provides NGS tools comprising library preparation kits, human exome kits, and fixed and custom panels, as well as alliance panels, primarily used within diagnostic tests for various indications, population genetics research and biomarker discovery, translational research, microbiology, and applied markets research; and methylation detection kits for cancer, and rare and inherited disease study, as well as fast hybridization and full RNA sequencing workflow solution. In addition, the company provides synthetic SARS-CoV-2 RNA reference sequences as positive controls for the development of both NGS and reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction assays; synthetic monkeypox controls; and various respiratory viral controls, including for influenzas, respiratory syncytial virus, rhinoviruses, SARS, MERS, and coronaviruses. Further, it offers SARS-CoV-2 Research Panels, such as the Twist Respiratory Virus Panel and the Pan-Viral Research Panel, for the detection of disease in a research setting; precision DNA libraries used for antibody engineering, affinity maturation, and humanization; and antibody optimization solution to enable simultaneous optimization of multiple characteristics of a given antibody. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, California.