OmniAb (NASDAQ:OABI – Get Free Report) and Telesis Bio (NASDAQ:TBIO – Get Free Report) are both small-cap healthcare companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends and risk.
Risk and Volatility
OmniAb has a beta of 0.62, suggesting that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Telesis Bio has a beta of 2.45, suggesting that its stock price is 145% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
72.1% of OmniAb shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.6% of Telesis Bio shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.8% of OmniAb shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 24.5% of Telesis Bio shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Earnings and Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| OmniAb | $18.67 million | 36.83 | -$64.78 million | ($0.36) | -13.19 |
| Telesis Bio | $225.09 million | 0.00 | -$47.72 million | ($20.52) | -0.00 |
Telesis Bio has higher revenue and earnings than OmniAb. OmniAb is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Telesis Bio, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares OmniAb and Telesis Bio’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| OmniAb | -115.12% | -16.59% | -14.82% |
| Telesis Bio | -336.59% | N/A | -61.89% |
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for OmniAb and Telesis Bio, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| OmniAb | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2.33 |
| Telesis Bio | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
OmniAb currently has a consensus price target of $11.00, suggesting a potential upside of 131.58%. Given OmniAb’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe OmniAb is more favorable than Telesis Bio.
Summary
OmniAb beats Telesis Bio on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About OmniAb
OmniAb, Inc., a biotechnology company, engages in the discovery and provision of therapeutic antibody discovery technologies in the United States. The company's technology platform creates and screens diverse antibody repertoires and identify optimal antibodies for partners' drug development efforts. Its OmniAb platform is the biological intelligence of proprietary transgenic animals, including OmniRat, OmniChicken, and OmniMouse that have been genetically modified to generate antibodies with human sequences to facilitate development of human therapeutic candidates. The company's OmniFlic, a bispecific rat, and OmniClic, a bispecific chicken, designed for discovery of bispecific antibody applications; OmniTaur, which provides unique structural characteristics of cow antibodies for complex targets; and OmniDeep, a suite of in silico, an AI and machine learning tools for therapeutic discovery and optimization through various technologies and capabilities. OmniAb, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Emeryville, California.
About Telesis Bio
Telesis Bio, Inc., a synthetic biology company, manufactures and sells synthetic biology instruments, reagents, and associated products and related services, primarily to pharmaceutical and academic laboratories worldwide. The company offers BioXp 3250 system and BioXp 9600 system that empower researchers to go from a digital DNA sequence to endpoint-ready synthetic deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) with onboard next generation sequencing (NGS) library preparation; BioXp portal, an online portal that offers an intuitive guided workflow and design tools for building new DNA sequences and assembling them into vectors of choice, as well as mRNA constructs; and BioXp De Novo kits, which contains building blocks and reagents, including proprietary Gibson assembly branded reagents for specific synthetic biology workflow applications. It also provides BioXp Select kits that offers to use non-telesis bio DNA while using the BioXp system to perform synthetic biology workflow applications, such as cloning, mRNA generation from plasmid, and cell free amplification; BioXp Next Generation Sequencing kits, which contains reagents to go from DNA or RNA to a sequencer-ready library; Benchtop reagents that contains the reagents to proceed specific synthetic biology workflow on the benchtop using products generated on the BioXp system; and custom Gibson short oligo ligation assembly enzymatic DNA synthesis solutions, which is designed to construct synthetic DNA, RNA, and proteins for development of mRNA-based vaccines, diagnostics, therapeutics, and personalized medicines. The company serves its products to government institutions, contract research organizations, and synthetic biology companies. The company was formerly known as Codex DNA, Inc. and changed its name to Telesis Bio Inc. in November 2022. Telesis Bio, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.
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