Contrasting Clarus Therapeutics (OTCMKTS:CRXTQ) & Poseida Therapeutics (NASDAQ:PSTX)

Clarus Therapeutics (OTCMKTS:CRXTQ) and Poseida Therapeutics (NASDAQ:PSTX) are both medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, risk, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations and valuation.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Clarus Therapeutics and Poseida Therapeutics, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Clarus Therapeutics	0	0	0	0	N/A
Poseida Therapeutics	0	0	2	0	3.00

Poseida Therapeutics has a consensus target price of $15.00, indicating a potential upside of 490.55%. Given Poseida Therapeutics’ higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Poseida Therapeutics is more favorable than Clarus Therapeutics.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Clarus Therapeutics and Poseida Therapeutics”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Clarus Therapeutics	$13.96 million	N/A	-$40.62 million	N/A	N/A
Poseida Therapeutics	$64.70 million	3.72	-$123.43 million	($1.19)	-2.08

Clarus Therapeutics has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Poseida Therapeutics.

Profitability

This table compares Clarus Therapeutics and Poseida Therapeutics’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Clarus Therapeutics	N/A	N/A	N/A
Poseida Therapeutics	-127.48%	-121.01%	-39.66%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

46.9% of Poseida Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. 5.3% of Clarus Therapeutics shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of Poseida Therapeutics shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Clarus Therapeutics beats Poseida Therapeutics on 5 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Clarus Therapeutics

Clarus Therapeutics Holdings, Inc., a pharmaceutical company, focuses on the development and commercialization of oral testosterone replacement therapy in the United States. It offers JATENZO, a soft gel oral formulation of testosterone undecanoate for treating hypogonadal men. The company has a licensing agreement with HavaH Therapeutics for product to treat androgen therapies for inflammatory breast disease and certain forms of breast cancer; and license agreement with The Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning/McGill University to develop and commercialize McGill's proprietary technology designed to treat conditions associated with CoQ10 deficiencies in humans. Clarus Therapeutics Holdings, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is based in Northbrook, Illinois.

About Poseida Therapeutics

Poseida Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on developing therapeutics for patients with high unmet medical needs. The company's development candidates for Heme Malignancies includes P-BCMA-ALLO1, which is in Phase I trial to treat patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma; P-CD19CD20-ALLO1, which is in Phase I trial for treating B cell malignancies and other autoimmune diseases; P-BCMACD19-ALLO1, an allogeneic, off-the-shelf CAR-T product candidate in preclinical development for treating multiple myeloma; and P-CD70-ALLO1 under preclinical development to treat hematological indications. It is also involved in the development of P-MUC1C-ALLO1 that is in Phase I trial for treating a range of solid tumors, including breast, colorectal, lung, ovarian, pancreatic, and renal cancers; P-PSMA-ALLO1, an autologous chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) product candidate that is in preclinical development for the treatment of patients with metastatic castrate resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC); and P-PSMA-101, an allogeneic CAR-T product candidate under Phase 1 clinical trial for treating mCRPC. In addition, the company engages in the development of P-FVIII-101, a clinical stage liver-directed gene therapy for the in vivo treatment of hemophilia A; P-OTC-101, a clinical stage liver-directed gene therapy for the in vivo treatment of ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency; and P-PAH-101, a clinical stage liver-directed gene therapy for the in vivo treatment of phenylketonuria. It has a research collaboration and license agreement with F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, and Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.