MIRM vs. BLTE, SYRE, COLL, IRWD, PCRX, GMTX, LGND, VRNA, MNKD, and ABCL
Should you be buying Mirum Pharmaceuticals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mirum Pharmaceuticals include Belite Bio (BLTE), Spyre Therapeutics (SYRE), Collegium Pharmaceutical (COLL), Ironwood Pharmaceuticals (IRWD), Pacira BioSciences (PCRX), Gemini Therapeutics (GMTX), Ligand Pharmaceuticals (LGND), Verona Pharma (VRNA), MannKind (MNKD), and AbCellera Biologics (ABCL). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Belite Bio (NASDAQ:BLTE) and Mirum Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:MIRM) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends and profitability.
Mirum Pharmaceuticals received 85 more outperform votes than Belite Bio when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 95.24% of users gave Belite Bio an outperform vote while only 71.43% of users gave Mirum Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote.
Belite Bio presently has a consensus price target of $44.83, indicating a potential upside of 3.78%. Mirum Pharmaceuticals has a consensus price target of $51.70, indicating a potential upside of 99.54%. Given Belite Bio's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Mirum Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than Belite Bio.
Belite Bio has a beta of -1.52, indicating that its stock price is 252% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mirum Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 1.13, indicating that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.
0.5% of Belite Bio shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.3% of Belite Bio shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 22.9% of Mirum Pharmaceuticals 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.
Belite Bio has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Belite Bio's net margin of -86.33%. Mirum Pharmaceuticals' return on equity of -54.05% beat Belite Bio's return on equity.
Belite Bio has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Mirum Pharmaceuticals. Belite Bio is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mirum Pharmaceuticals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Belite Bio had 1 more articles in the media than Mirum Pharmaceuticals. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Belite Bio and 5 mentions for Mirum Pharmaceuticals. Belite Bio's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat Mirum Pharmaceuticals' score of 0.35 indicating that Mirum Pharmaceuticals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Mirum Pharmaceuticals beats Belite Bio on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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