Aligos Therapeutics (NASDAQ:ALGS – Get Free Report) and Voyager Therapeutics (NASDAQ:VYGR – Get Free Report) are both small-cap healthcare companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and institutional ownership.
Risk & Volatility
Aligos Therapeutics has a beta of 2.34, meaning that its share price is 134% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Voyager Therapeutics has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Aligos Therapeutics and Voyager Therapeutics”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Aligos Therapeutics | $2.19 million | 14.87 | -$24.19 million | ($7.30) | -0.72 |
| Voyager Therapeutics | $40.37 million | 4.87 | -$119.72 million | ($1.80) | -1.77 |
Aligos Therapeutics has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Voyager Therapeutics. Voyager Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Aligos Therapeutics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares Aligos Therapeutics and Voyager Therapeutics’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Aligos Therapeutics | -241.01% | -160.72% | -92.30% |
| Voyager Therapeutics | -312.63% | -57.92% | -45.00% |
Institutional & Insider Ownership
60.4% of Aligos Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.0% of Voyager Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. 7.8% of Aligos Therapeutics shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.7% of Voyager Therapeutics shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Aligos Therapeutics and Voyager Therapeutics, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Aligos Therapeutics | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2.86 |
| Voyager Therapeutics | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2.75 |
Aligos Therapeutics presently has a consensus target price of $38.50, indicating a potential upside of 637.55%. Voyager Therapeutics has a consensus target price of $16.50, indicating a potential upside of 417.24%. Given Aligos Therapeutics’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Aligos Therapeutics is more favorable than Voyager Therapeutics.
Summary
Aligos Therapeutics beats Voyager Therapeutics on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Aligos Therapeutics
Aligos Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the development of novel therapeutics to address unmet medical needs in viral and liver diseases. Its drug candidate, ALG-055009, a small molecule THR-ß agonist that is in the Phase 2a clinical trial for the treatment of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). The company also develops ALG-000184, a capsid assembly modulator, which is completed Phase 1b clinical trial to treat chronic hepatitis B (CHB); and ALG-125755, a siRNA drug candidate, which is in Phase I clinical trial for the treatment of CHB. In addition, it develops ALG-097558, which is in Phase 2 clinical trial for the treatment of coronavirus. The company has entered into license and research collaboration agreement with Merck to discover, research, optimize, and develop oligonucleotides directed against a NASH; license agreement with Emory University to provide hepatitis B virus capsid assembly modulator technology; license agreement with Luxna Biotech Co., Ltd. to develop and commercialize products containing oligonucleotides targeting hepatitis B virus genome; and research, licensing, and commercialization agreement with Katholieke Universiteit Leuven to develop coronavirus protease inhibitors. Aligos Therapeutics, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, California.
About Voyager Therapeutics
Voyager Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company, focuses on the treatment of gene therapy and neurology diseases. The company's lead clinical candidate is VY-TAU01, an anti-tau antibody program for the treatment of alzheimer's disease. Its product pipeline includes superoxide dismutase 1 silencing gene therapy, which is in preclinical trial for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; tau silencing gene therapy, which is in preclinical trial for the treatment of alzheimer's disease; and vectorized anti-amyloid antibody, a gene therapy targeting anti-amyloid for the treatment of alzheimer's disease and is in preclinical trial. In addition, the company develops VY-FXN01, which is in preclinical trial to treat friedreich's ataxia; and GBA1 gene replacement to treat parkinson's disease and is in preclinical trial. Further, it provides research program for the treatment of Huntington's disease. The company has collaboration and license agreements with Alexion; AstraZeneca Rare Disease; Novartis Pharma AG; Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc; and Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc. Voyager Therapeutics, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts.
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