Perceptive Capital Solutions (PCSC) vs. The Competition Critical Review

Perceptive Capital Solutions (NASDAQ:PCSC) is one of 89 public 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 institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, risk, profitability and valuation.

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 insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk and Volatility

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

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%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Perceptive Capital Solutions and its competitors, as reported 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 probable upside, analysts clearly believe Perceptive Capital Solutions has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Perceptive Capital Solutions and its competitors revenue, earnings per share 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.

About Perceptive Capital Solutions

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.