Head-To-Head Review: Avalon GloboCare (NASDAQ:ALBT) & Peak Bio (NASDAQ:PKBO)

Peak Bio (NASDAQ:PKBO) and Avalon GloboCare (NASDAQ:ALBT) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, earnings, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends and institutional ownership.

Risk & Volatility

Peak Bio has a beta of -0.09, indicating that its stock price is 109% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Avalon GloboCare has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

1.2% of Avalon GloboCare shares are held by institutional investors. 19.9% of Peak Bio shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 64.0% of Avalon GloboCare shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Peak Bio and Avalon GloboCare’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Peak Bio	N/A	N/A	-103.78%
Avalon GloboCare	-1,082.16%	-1,097.27%	-55.87%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Peak Bio and Avalon GloboCare’s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Peak Bio	$610,000.00	2.96	-$13.09 million	N/A	N/A
Avalon GloboCare	$1.20 million	5.45	-$11.93 million	N/A	N/A

Avalon GloboCare has higher revenue and earnings than Peak Bio.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Peak Bio and Avalon GloboCare, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Peak Bio	0	0	0	0	N/A
Avalon GloboCare	0	0	0	0	N/A

Summary

Avalon GloboCare beats Peak Bio on 7 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Peak Bio

Peak Bio, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on developing therapeutics for the treatment of patients with inflammatory, cancer, and rare and specialty diseases. The company's lead product candidate is PHP-303, which is in phase 2 clinical study for the treatment of alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and acute respiratory distress syndrome. It also develops Trop2 PH1, an antibody-drug-conjugate for solid tumors. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Pleasanton, California.

About Avalon GloboCare

Avalon GloboCare Corp., together with its subsidiaries, owns and operates commercial real estate properties in the United States and China. The company develops and delivers transformative cellular therapeutics, precision diagnostics, and clinical laboratory services. Its leading candidates are AVA-001, an anti-CD19 CAR-T, which has completed first-in-human clinical trial for relapsed/refractory (R/R) B-cell lymphoblastic leukemia; and AVA-011 that has completed pre-clinical laboratory studies and undergoing IND-enabling process development stage to generate cGMP-grade AVA-011 CAR-T cells. It is also developing mRNA-based Flash-CAR cell therapy platform. In addition, the company develops Avalon clinical-grade tissue-specific exosome (ACTEX); AVA-Trap, a therapeutic program provides an effective therapeutic option to combat COVID-19 and other life-threatening conditions involving cytokine storms; offers therapeutic and diagnostic targets utilizing QTY-code protein design technology with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), including using the QTY code protein design technology for development of a hemofiltration device to treat Cytokine Storm; and provides co-development of next generation, transposon-based, multi-target CAR-T, CAR-NK, and other immune effector cell therapeutic modalities with Arbele Limited. Avalon GloboCare Corp. has strategic partnership with HydroPeptide, LLC to engage in co-development and commercialization of a series of clinical-grade, exosome-based cosmeceutical, and orthopedic products; and corporate research agreement with the University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Freehold, New Jersey.