Quantum-Si (NASDAQ:QSI – Get Free Report) and Adaptive Biotechnologies (NASDAQ:ADPT – Get Free Report) are both healthcare companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, risk and profitability.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
39.9% of Quantum-Si shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.2% of Adaptive Biotechnologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 22.0% of Quantum-Si shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.7% of Adaptive Biotechnologies shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Risk and Volatility
Quantum-Si has a beta of 3.26, indicating that its stock price is 226% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Adaptive Biotechnologies has a beta of 2.09, indicating that its stock price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Quantum-Si and Adaptive Biotechnologies, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Quantum-Si | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2.25 |
| Adaptive Biotechnologies | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 2.62 |
Quantum-Si presently has a consensus target price of $2.50, indicating a potential upside of 85.87%. Adaptive Biotechnologies has a consensus target price of $30.06, indicating a potential upside of 15.84%. Given Quantum-Si’s higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Quantum-Si is more favorable than Adaptive Biotechnologies.
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares Quantum-Si and Adaptive Biotechnologies”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Quantum-Si | $2.44 million | 120.65 | -$101.34 million | ($0.46) | -2.92 |
| Adaptive Biotechnologies | $308.08 million | 13.44 | -$59.50 million | ($0.41) | -63.30 |
Adaptive Biotechnologies has higher revenue and earnings than Quantum-Si. Adaptive Biotechnologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Quantum-Si, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares Quantum-Si and Adaptive Biotechnologies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Quantum-Si | -6,138.26% | -47.12% | -43.18% |
| Adaptive Biotechnologies | -20.73% | -36.81% | -13.77% |
Summary
Adaptive Biotechnologies beats Quantum-Si on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Quantum-Si
Quantum-Si incorporated, a life sciences company, engages in the development of single-molecule detection platform to enable Next Generation Protein Sequencing (NGPS). The company's platform is comprised of the Platinum NGPS instrument; the Platinum Analysis Software service; and reagent kits and semiconductor chips for use with its instruments. It is used in protein identification, protein variants, antibody characterization, biomarker identification, and post translational modification analysis applications. The company was founded in 2013 is headquartered in Branford, Connecticut.
About Adaptive Biotechnologies
Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation, a commercial-stage company, develops an immune medicine platform for the diagnosis and treatment of various diseases. The company offers immunosequencing platform which combines a suite of proprietary chemistry, computational biology, and machine learning to generate clinical immunomics data to decode the adaptive immune system. It also provides clonoSEQ diagnostic test which detects and monitors the remaining number of cancer cells that are present in a patient’s body during and after treatment, known as Minimal Residual Disease (MRD). The company offers products and services for life sciences research, clinical diagnostics, and drug discovery applications. Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation has strategic collaborations with Genentech, Inc. for the development, manufacture, and commercialization of neoantigen directed T cell therapies for the treatment of a range of cancers; and Microsoft Corporation to develop diagnostic tests for the early detection of various diseases from a single blood test. The company was formerly known as Adaptive TCR Corporation and changed its name to Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation in December 2011. Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
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