Repligen (NASDAQ:RGEN) vs. Ginkgo Bioworks (NYSE:DNA) Financial Contrast

Ginkgo Bioworks (NYSE:DNA) and Repligen (NASDAQ:RGEN) are both healthcare companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations and valuation.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings for Ginkgo Bioworks and Repligen, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Ginkgo Bioworks	2	1	0	0	1.33
Repligen	0	3	12	3	3.00

Ginkgo Bioworks presently has a consensus price target of $7.00, indicating a potential upside of 1.88%. Repligen has a consensus price target of $166.43, indicating a potential upside of 0.35%. Given Ginkgo Bioworks’ higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Ginkgo Bioworks is more favorable than Repligen.

Volatility and Risk

Ginkgo Bioworks has a beta of 1.78, meaning that its stock price is 78% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Repligen has a beta of 1.03, meaning that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

78.6% of Ginkgo Bioworks shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.6% of Repligen shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.7% of Ginkgo Bioworks shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Repligen shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Ginkgo Bioworks and Repligen’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Ginkgo Bioworks	-259.96%	-60.27%	-26.88%
Repligen	5.29%	5.30%	3.79%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Ginkgo Bioworks and Repligen”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Ginkgo Bioworks	$170.15 million	2.72	-$312.76 million	($5.01)	-1.37
Repligen	$738.26 million	12.68	$48.89 million	$0.73	227.18

Repligen has higher revenue and earnings than Ginkgo Bioworks. Ginkgo Bioworks is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Repligen, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Repligen beats Ginkgo Bioworks on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Ginkgo Bioworks

Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops platform for cell programming in the United States. Its platform is used to program cells to enable biological production of products, such as novel therapeutics, food ingredients, and chemicals derived from petroleum. It serves pharma and biotech, agriculture, industrial and environment, food and nutrition, consumer and technology, and government and defense industries. Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

About Repligen

Repligen Corporation develops and commercializes bioprocessing technologies and systems for use in biological drug manufacturing process in North America, Europe, the Asia Pacific, and internationally. It offers Protein A ligands that are the binding components of Protein A affinity chromatography resins; and cell culture growth factor products. The company’s chromatography products include OPUS pre-packed chromatography columns, which are used in the purification of biologics; and OPUS smaller-scale columns that are used in the high throughput process development screening, viral clearance validation studies, and scale down validation of chromatography processes. It also offers ELISA test kits; and chromatography resins under the CaptivA brand. In addition, the company provides filtration products, such as XCell Alternating Tangential Flow systems that are filtration devices used in upstream perfusion and cell culture processing; TangenX flat sheet cassettes, which are used in downstream biologic drug concentration, buffer exchange, and formulation processes; KrosFlo tangential flow filtration and tangential flow depth filtration systems; Spectra/Por laboratory and process dialysis products, and ProConnex TFDF flow paths. Further, it provides process analytics products, such as slope spectroscopy systems under the SoloVPE, FlowVPE, and FlowVPX brands. The company sells its products to life sciences, biopharmaceutical, and diagnostics companies; laboratory researchers; and contract manufacturing organizations. Repligen Corporation has collaboration agreements with Navigo Proteins GmbH to develop multiple affinity ligands. The company was incorporated in 1981 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.