AVDL vs. ZLAB, KURA, TARO, SUPN, SDGR, DVAX, AKRO, HRMY, PTGX, and MORF
Should you be buying Avadel Pharmaceuticals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Avadel Pharmaceuticals include Zai Lab (ZLAB), Kura Oncology (KURA), Taro Pharmaceutical Industries (TARO), Supernus Pharmaceuticals (SUPN), Schrödinger (SDGR), Dynavax Technologies (DVAX), Akero Therapeutics (AKRO), Harmony Biosciences (HRMY), Protagonist Therapeutics (PTGX), and Morphic (MORF). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Avadel Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:AVDL) and Zai Lab (NASDAQ:ZLAB) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.
Avadel Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 1.61, indicating that its stock price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Zai Lab has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Avadel Pharmaceuticals had 4 more articles in the media than Zai Lab. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Avadel Pharmaceuticals and 6 mentions for Zai Lab. Zai Lab's average media sentiment score of 0.24 beat Avadel Pharmaceuticals' score of -0.27 indicating that Zai Lab is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Avadel Pharmaceuticals presently has a consensus target price of $23.67, suggesting a potential upside of 45.64%. Zai Lab has a consensus target price of $64.22, suggesting a potential upside of 287.59%. Given Zai Lab's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Zai Lab is more favorable than Avadel Pharmaceuticals.
Avadel Pharmaceuticals received 108 more outperform votes than Zai Lab when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.08% of users gave Avadel Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 63.58% of users gave Zai Lab an outperform vote.
Avadel Pharmaceuticals has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Zai Lab's net margin of -125.46%. Zai Lab's return on equity of -37.07% beat Avadel Pharmaceuticals' return on equity.
Avadel Pharmaceuticals has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Zai Lab. Avadel Pharmaceuticals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Zai Lab, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
69.2% of Avadel Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.7% of Zai Lab shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.0% of Avadel Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.2% of Zai Lab shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Avadel Pharmaceuticals beats Zai Lab on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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