Head-To-Head Contrast: Cabaletta Bio (NASDAQ:CABA) & Cidara Therapeutics (NASDAQ:CDTX)

Cidara Therapeutics (NASDAQ:CDTX) and Cabaletta Bio (NASDAQ:CABA) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and profitability.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations for Cidara Therapeutics and Cabaletta Bio, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Cidara Therapeutics	0	0	4	2	3.33
Cabaletta Bio	0	1	6	1	3.00

Cidara Therapeutics presently has a consensus price target of $32.20, indicating a potential upside of 37.02%. Cabaletta Bio has a consensus price target of $22.71, indicating a potential upside of 1,127.80%. Given Cabaletta Bio’s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Cabaletta Bio is more favorable than Cidara Therapeutics.

Profitability

This table compares Cidara Therapeutics and Cabaletta Bio’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Cidara Therapeutics	-289.05%	-69.64%	-33.73%
Cabaletta Bio	N/A	-50.10%	-45.49%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

35.8% of Cidara Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. 7.6% of Cidara Therapeutics shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.9% of Cabaletta Bio shares are held by company 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.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Cidara Therapeutics and Cabaletta Bio”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Cidara Therapeutics	$44.65 million	3.71	-$22.93 million	($25.52)	-0.92
Cabaletta Bio	N/A	N/A	-$67.68 million	($2.15)	-0.86

Cidara Therapeutics has higher revenue and earnings than Cabaletta Bio. Cidara Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cabaletta Bio, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Volatility & Risk

Cidara Therapeutics has a beta of 0.94, indicating that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cabaletta Bio has a beta of 2.58, indicating that its share price is 158% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Cabaletta Bio beats Cidara Therapeutics on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Cidara Therapeutics

Cidara Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company, focuses on developing targeted therapies for patients facing cancers and other serious diseases. The company's product includes rezafungin acetate, a novel molecule in the echinocandin class of antifungals for the treatment and prevention of invasive fungal infections, including candidemia and invasive candidiasis, which are fungal infections associated with high mortality rates. It also develops its Cloudbreak platform that enables development of novel drug-Fc conjugates, that includes CD388, a potent antiviral designed to deliver universal prevention and treatment of seasonal and pandemic influenza, which is in Phase 1 and Phase 2a clinical trials. The company was formerly known as K2 Therapeutics, Inc. and changed its name to Cidara Therapeutics, Inc. in July 2014. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Diego, California.

About Cabaletta Bio

Cabaletta Bio, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company, focuses on the discovery and development of engineered T cell therapies for patients with B cell-mediated autoimmune diseases. The company's lead product candidate is CABA-201, a fully human anti-CD19 binder for the treatment of Phase 1/2 clinical trials in dermatomyositis, anti-synthetase syndrome, immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy, lupus nephritis, non-renal systemic lupus erythematosus, systemic sclerosis, and generalized myasthenia gravis. It also develops DSG3-CAART, which is in Phase I/II clinical trial for the treatment of mucosal pemphigus vulgaris; and MuSK-CAART, an investigational cell therapy that is in Phase I/II clinical trial for treating patients with anti- muscle-specific kinase antibody positive myasthenia gravis. It has a collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Nanjing IASO Biotherapeutics Co., Ltd; Oxford Biomedica; and WuXi Advanced Therapies, Inc. The company was formerly known as Tycho Therapeutics, Inc. and changed its name to Cabaletta Bio, Inc. in August 2018. Cabaletta Bio, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.