Alpine Immune Sciences (NASDAQ:ALPN – Get Rating) and PhaseBio Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:PHAS – Get Rating) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

79.0% of Alpine Immune Sciences shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.0% of PhaseBio Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by institutional investors. 54.7% of Alpine Immune Sciences shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.9% of PhaseBio Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

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Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Alpine Immune Sciences and PhaseBio Pharmaceuticals' top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

Alpine Immune Sciences has higher revenue and earnings than PhaseBio Pharmaceuticals. Alpine Immune Sciences is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PhaseBio Pharmaceuticals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Volatility and Risk

Alpine Immune Sciences has a beta of 1.5, suggesting that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PhaseBio Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 2.87, suggesting that its share price is 187% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Alpine Immune Sciences and PhaseBio Pharmaceuticals' net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Alpine Immune Sciences and PhaseBio Pharmaceuticals, as provided by MarketBeat.

Alpine Immune Sciences presently has a consensus price target of $15.67, suggesting a potential upside of 157.68%. PhaseBio Pharmaceuticals has a consensus price target of $4.50, suggesting a potential upside of 4,636.84%. Given PhaseBio Pharmaceuticals' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe PhaseBio Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than Alpine Immune Sciences.

Summary

Alpine Immune Sciences beats PhaseBio Pharmaceuticals on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Alpine Immune Sciences

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Alpine Immune Sciences, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the discovery and development of protein-based immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer, autoimmune/inflammatory disorders, and other diseases. Its product pipeline includes ALPN-101, an inducible T cell costimulator (ICOS)/cluster of differentiation 28 (CD28) antagonist program for the treatment of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases; ALPN-202, a conditional CD28 costimulator and dual checkpoint inhibitor for the treatment of cancer; and ALPN-303, a dual B cell cytokine antagonist for the treatment of B cell-mediated inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The company has a collaboration agreement with AbbVie Ireland Unlimited Company for the development of ALPN-101; and Adaptimmune Therapeutics plc to develop next-generation SPEAR T cell products. Alpine Immune Sciences, Inc. was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

About PhaseBio Pharmaceuticals

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PhaseBio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the development and commercialization of novel therapies for cardiovascular diseases. The firm's pipeline includes: bentracimab (PB2452), a novel reversal agent for the antiplatelet therapy ticagrelor, pemziviptadil (PB1046), a once-weekly vasoactive intestinal peptide receptor agonist for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension, and PB6440, an oral agent for the treatment of resistant hypertension. The company was founded by Ashutosh Chilkoti and Clay Bernardin Thorp in January 2002 and is headquartered in Malvern, PA.

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