Analyzing Medicenna Therapeutics (MDNAF) and The Competition

Medicenna Therapeutics (OTCMKTS:MDNAF) is one of 458 public companies in the “Pharmaceutical Preparations” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its rivals? We will compare Medicenna Therapeutics to similar companies based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, earnings and profitability.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

35.9% of Medicenna Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.1% of shares of all “Pharmaceutical Preparations” companies are held by institutional investors. 33.1% of Medicenna Therapeutics shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 13.9% of shares of all “Pharmaceutical Preparations” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Medicenna Therapeutics and its rivals gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Medicenna Therapeutics	N/A	-$8.48 million	-6.20
Medicenna Therapeutics Competitors	$432.07 million	-$67.78 million	-10.56

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

Risk & Volatility

Medicenna Therapeutics has a beta of 1.81, meaning that its stock price is 81% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Medicenna Therapeutics’ rivals have a beta of 5.42, meaning that their average stock price is 442% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for Medicenna Therapeutics and its rivals, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Medicenna Therapeutics	0	1	0	0	2.00
Medicenna Therapeutics Competitors	4898	9967	15993	376	2.38

As a group, “Pharmaceutical Preparations” companies have a potential upside of 61.46%. Given Medicenna Therapeutics’ rivals stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Medicenna Therapeutics has less favorable growth aspects than its rivals.

Profitability

This table compares Medicenna Therapeutics and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Medicenna Therapeutics	N/A	-142.13%	-90.31%
Medicenna Therapeutics Competitors	-2,662.14%	-363.93%	-42.95%

Summary

Medicenna Therapeutics rivals beat Medicenna Therapeutics on 8 of the 13 factors compared.

About Medicenna Therapeutics

Medicenna Therapeutics Corp., a clinical stage immunotherapy company, engages in the development and commercialization of Superkines and empowered Superkines for the treatment of cancer and other diseases. Its lead product is MDNA55, an interleukin- 4 (IL-4) EC that has completed Phase 2b clinical trial for the treatment of recurrent glioblastoma (rGBM), as well as preclinical and clinical development stages for the treatment of other brain and non-brain tumors. The company also develops MDNA55, which has completed Phase 2b clinical trial to treat rGBM; MDNA109, an enhanced version of IL-2 to activate and proliferate the immune cells needed to fight cancer; MDNA209, an IL-2 antagonist for autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis and graft versus host disease (GvHD); MDNA413, a dual IL-4/IL-13 antagonist to treat solid tumors; and MDNA132, an IL-13 Superkine to chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) platform. In addition, it provides BiSKITs platform to develop designer Superkines by fusing them to other proteins, antibodies, or naked IL-2, IL-4, and IL-13 Superkines. Medicenna Therapeutics Corp. is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.