Comparing Perceptive Capital Solutions (PCSC) and Its Peers

Perceptive Capital Solutions (NASDAQ:PCSC) is one of 89 publicly-traded companies in the “UNCLASSIFIED” industry, but how does it compare to its competitors? We will compare Perceptive Capital Solutions to similar companies based on the strength of its dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, valuation and institutional ownership.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for Perceptive Capital Solutions and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Perceptive Capital Solutions	1	0	0	0	1.00
Perceptive Capital Solutions Competitors	255	268	217	3	1.96

As a group, “UNCLASSIFIED” companies have a potential upside of 122.44%. Given Perceptive Capital Solutions’ competitors stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Perceptive Capital Solutions has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Risk and Volatility

Perceptive Capital Solutions has a beta of 0.01, suggesting that its share price is 99% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Perceptive Capital Solutions’ competitors have a beta of -0.09, suggesting that their average share price is 109% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

51.0% of shares of all “UNCLASSIFIED” companies are owned by institutional investors. 42.7% of shares of all “UNCLASSIFIED” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Perceptive Capital Solutions and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Perceptive Capital Solutions	N/A	-98.06%	2.66%
Perceptive Capital Solutions Competitors	0.86%	0.95%	0.80%

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Perceptive Capital Solutions and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Perceptive Capital Solutions	N/A	$1.91 million	76.79
Perceptive Capital Solutions Competitors	$42.57 million	-$18.84 million	69.77

Perceptive Capital Solutions’ competitors have higher revenue, but lower earnings than Perceptive Capital Solutions. Perceptive Capital Solutions is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Summary

Perceptive Capital Solutions competitors beat Perceptive Capital Solutions on 9 of the 13 factors compared.

Perceptive Capital Solutions Company Profile

Perceptive Capital Solutions Corp is a blank check company. It formed for the purpose of entering into a combination with one or more businesses or entities. Perceptive Capital Solutions Corp is based in NEW YORK.