Contrasting Editas Medicine (NASDAQ:EDIT) and JATT Acquisition (NYSE:JATT)

JATT Acquisition (NYSE:JATT) and Editas Medicine (NASDAQ:EDIT) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for JATT Acquisition and Editas Medicine, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
JATT Acquisition	0	0	0	0	0.00
Editas Medicine	2	9	3	0	2.07

Editas Medicine has a consensus price target of $7.00, indicating a potential upside of 422.39%. Given Editas Medicine’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Editas Medicine is more favorable than JATT Acquisition.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

48.0% of JATT Acquisition shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.9% of Editas Medicine shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.0% of JATT Acquisition shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of Editas Medicine shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares JATT Acquisition and Editas Medicine’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
JATT Acquisition	N/A	-49.58%	2.84%
Editas Medicine	-340.96%	-80.13%	-50.99%

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares JATT Acquisition and Editas Medicine”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
JATT Acquisition	N/A	N/A	$6.85 million	N/A	N/A
Editas Medicine	$61.76 million	1.79	-$153.22 million	($2.56)	-0.52

JATT Acquisition has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Editas Medicine.

About JATT Acquisition

JATT Acquisition Corp does not have significant operations. It intends to effect a merger, capital share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities. The company intends to focus on businesses primarily operating in the life sciences sector. JATT Acquisition Corp was incorporated in 2021 and is based in Grand Cayman, the Cayman Islands.

About Editas Medicine

Editas Medicine, Inc., a clinical stage genome editing company, focuses on developing transformative genomic medicines to treat a range of serious diseases. It develops a proprietary gene editing platform based on CRISPR technology. The company develops EDIT-101, which is in Phase 1/2 BRILLIANCE trial for Leber Congenital Amaurosis; and reni-cel, a clinical development gene-edited medicine to treat sickle cell disease and transfusion-dependent beta-thalassemia. In addition, the company is developing alpha-beta T cells for solid and liquid tumors; and gamma delta T cell therapies to treat cancer. It has a research collaboration with Juno Therapeutics, Inc. to develop engineered T cells for cancer; strategic alliance and option agreement with Allergan Pharmaceuticals International Limited. The company was formerly known as Gengine, Inc. and changed its name to Editas Medicine, Inc. in November 2013. Editas Medicine, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.