Financial Contrast: Elanco Animal Health (NYSE:ELAN) & Xcelerate (OTCMKTS:XCRT)

Xcelerate (OTCMKTS:XCRT) and Elanco Animal Health (NYSE:ELAN) are both medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, risk, valuation, dividends and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for Xcelerate and Elanco Animal Health, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Xcelerate	0	0	0	0	0.00
Elanco Animal Health	0	4	5	1	2.70

Elanco Animal Health has a consensus target price of $18.33, indicating a potential downside of 11.35%. Given Elanco Animal Health’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Elanco Animal Health is more favorable than Xcelerate.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

97.5% of Elanco Animal Health shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Elanco Animal Health shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Xcelerate and Elanco Animal Health”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Xcelerate	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Elanco Animal Health	$4.44 billion	2.31	$338.00 million	$0.86	24.05

Elanco Animal Health has higher revenue and earnings than Xcelerate.

Risk & Volatility

Xcelerate has a beta of 0.46, indicating that its share price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Elanco Animal Health has a beta of 1.65, indicating that its share price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Xcelerate and Elanco Animal Health’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Xcelerate	N/A	N/A	N/A
Elanco Animal Health	9.68%	7.04%	3.45%

Summary

Elanco Animal Health beats Xcelerate on 11 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Xcelerate

Xcelerate Inc. acquires engineering/patents and applies to early-stage medical technology companies. The company engages in the formulation, packaging and marketing of consumer health and beauty, and clinically tested skin care products; development of artificial intelligence and virtual health technology to assist patients; owning and licensing the rights to various forms of medical equipment. It also provides Ceramedx, a natural plant based therapeutic skin care product; Earth Science Beauty, which offers natural facial skincare targeted to specific skin types. The company was formerly known as Union Dental Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to Xcelerate Inc. Xcelerate Inc. was incorporated in 1996 is based in Mauldin, South Carolina.

About Elanco Animal Health

Elanco Animal Health Incorporated, an animal health company, innovates, develops, manufactures, and markets products for pets and farm animals. It offers pet health disease prevention products, such as parasiticide and vaccine products that protect pets from worms, fleas, and ticks under the Seresto, Advantage, Advantix, and Advocate brands; pet health therapeutics for pain, osteoarthritis, ear infections, cardiovascular, and dermatology indications in canines and felines under the Galliprant and Claro brands; vaccines, antibiotics, parasiticides, and other products for use in poultry and aquaculture production, as well as nutritional health products, including enzymes, probiotics, and prebiotics; and a range of vaccines, antibiotics, implants, parasiticides, and other products used in ruminant and swine production under the Rumensin and Baytril brands. The company sells its products to third-party distributors; veterinarians; and farm animal producers, including beef and dairy farmers, as well as pork, poultry, and aquaculture operations. Elanco Animal Health Incorporated was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Greenfield, Indiana.