EPIX vs. NBTX, FBLG, AQST, PROC, AKBA, VSTM, URGN, XOMA, INZY, and VNDA
Should you be buying ESSA Pharma stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ESSA Pharma include Nanobiotix (NBTX), FibroBiologics (FBLG), Aquestive Therapeutics (AQST), Procaps Group (PROC), Akebia Therapeutics (AKBA), Verastem (VSTM), UroGen Pharma (URGN), XOMA (XOMA), Inozyme Pharma (INZY), and Vanda Pharmaceuticals (VNDA). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Nanobiotix (NASDAQ:NBTX) and ESSA Pharma (NASDAQ:EPIX) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, dividends and community ranking.
ESSA Pharma has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Nanobiotix.
Nanobiotix presently has a consensus target price of $11.00, indicating a potential upside of 66.67%. ESSA Pharma has a consensus target price of $16.50, indicating a potential upside of 164.42%. Given Nanobiotix's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe ESSA Pharma is more favorable than Nanobiotix.
Nanobiotix has a beta of 0.26, suggesting that its share price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ESSA Pharma has a beta of 1.76, suggesting that its share price is 76% more volatile than the S&P 500.
ESSA Pharma's return on equity of 0.00% beat Nanobiotix's return on equity.
38.8% of Nanobiotix shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.1% of ESSA Pharma shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.5% of Nanobiotix shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 14.7% of ESSA Pharma shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, ESSA Pharma had 3 more articles in the media than Nanobiotix. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for ESSA Pharma and 1 mentions for Nanobiotix. ESSA Pharma's average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat Nanobiotix's score of 0.23 indicating that Nanobiotix is being referred to more favorably in the media.
ESSA Pharma received 338 more outperform votes than Nanobiotix when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.32% of users gave ESSA Pharma an outperform vote while only 62.50% of users gave Nanobiotix an outperform vote.
Summary
ESSA Pharma beats Nanobiotix on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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