ADMA Biologics (NASDAQ:ADMA – Get Free Report) and Iovance Biotherapeutics (NASDAQ:IOVA – Get Free Report) are both mid-cap healthcare companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, earnings, dividends and risk.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares ADMA Biologics and Iovance Biotherapeutics”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| ADMA Biologics | $510.17 million | 4.00 | $146.93 million | $0.70 | 13.01 |
| Iovance Biotherapeutics | $263.50 million | 17.62 | -$390.98 million | ($0.73) | -14.04 |
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of current ratings and target prices for ADMA Biologics and Iovance Biotherapeutics, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| ADMA Biologics | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2.50 |
| Iovance Biotherapeutics | 2 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 2.45 |
ADMA Biologics currently has a consensus price target of $18.67, indicating a potential upside of 104.90%. Iovance Biotherapeutics has a consensus price target of $9.11, indicating a potential downside of 11.11%. Given ADMA Biologics’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe ADMA Biologics is more favorable than Iovance Biotherapeutics.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
75.7% of ADMA Biologics shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.0% of Iovance Biotherapeutics shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.9% of ADMA Biologics shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.8% of Iovance Biotherapeutics shares 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 ADMA Biologics and Iovance Biotherapeutics’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| ADMA Biologics | 32.98% | 40.17% | 26.97% |
| Iovance Biotherapeutics | -89.11% | -40.51% | -31.65% |
Volatility and Risk
ADMA Biologics has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Iovance Biotherapeutics has a beta of 0.83, indicating that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
ADMA Biologics beats Iovance Biotherapeutics on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About ADMA Biologics
ADMA Biologics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, engages in developing, manufacturing, and marketing specialty plasma-derived biologics for the treatment of immune deficiencies and infectious diseases in the United States and internationally. The company offers BIVIGAM, an intravenous immune globulin (IVIG) product indicated for the treatment of primary humoral immunodeficiency (PI); ASCENIV, an IVIG product for the treatment of PI; and Nabi-HB for the treatment of acute exposure to blood containing Hepatitis B surface antigen and other listed exposures to Hepatitis B. It develops a pipeline of plasma-derived therapeutics, including products related to the methods of treatment and prevention of S. pneumonia infection for an immunoglobulin. In addition, it operates source plasma collection facilities. The company sells its products through independent distributors, drug wholesalers, specialty pharmacies, and other alternate site providers. ADMA Biologics, Inc. was incorporated in 2004 and is headquartered in Ramsey, New Jersey.
About Iovance Biotherapeutics
Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc., a commercial-stage biotechnology company, develops and commercializes cell therapies using autologous tumor infiltrating lymphocyte for the treatment of metastatic melanoma and other solid tumor cancers in the United States. The company offers Amtagvi, a tumor-derived autologous T cell immunotherapy used to treat adult patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma; and Proleukin, an interleukin-2 product for the treatment of patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma. It also develops lifileucel in combination with pembrolizumab to treat frontline advanced melanoma patients; LN-145 for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and solid tumor cancers; IOV-4001, which is in Phase 1/2 IOV-GM1-201 clinical trial, for the treatment of NSCLC; and lifileucel for gynecological cancers. The company has collaborations and licensing agreements with WuXi Advanced Therapies, Inc.; National Institutes of Health; the National Cancer Institute; H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center; The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center; Cellectis S.A.; Novartis Pharma AG; and Boehringer Ingelheim Biopharmaceuticals GmbH. The company was formerly known as Lion Biotechnologies, Inc. and changed its name to Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. in June 2017. Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in San Carlos, California.
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