AQST vs. PROC, NBTX, EPIX, FBLG, URGN, VNDA, NLTX, CRMD, ORGO, and AKBA
Should you be buying Aquestive Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aquestive Therapeutics include Procaps Group (PROC), Nanobiotix (NBTX), ESSA Pharma (EPIX), FibroBiologics (FBLG), UroGen Pharma (URGN), Vanda Pharmaceuticals (VNDA), Neoleukin Therapeutics (NLTX), CorMedix (CRMD), Organogenesis (ORGO), and Akebia Therapeutics (AKBA). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Procaps Group (NASDAQ:PROC) and Aquestive Therapeutics (NASDAQ:AQST) are both medical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, profitability, dividends, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Procaps Group has higher revenue and earnings than Aquestive Therapeutics. Aquestive Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Procaps Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Procaps Group has a beta of 0.16, meaning that its stock price is 84% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Aquestive Therapeutics has a beta of 2.95, meaning that its stock price is 195% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Procaps Group presently has a consensus target price of $4.50, indicating a potential upside of 74.42%. Aquestive Therapeutics has a consensus target price of $8.00, indicating a potential upside of 143.90%. Given Procaps Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Aquestive Therapeutics is more favorable than Procaps Group.
Procaps Group has a net margin of 12.61% compared to Procaps Group's net margin of -55.85%. Aquestive Therapeutics' return on equity of 283.06% beat Procaps Group's return on equity.
32.5% of Aquestive Therapeutics shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.9% of Procaps Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.4% of Aquestive Therapeutics shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Aquestive Therapeutics had 9 more articles in the media than Procaps Group. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Aquestive Therapeutics and 4 mentions for Procaps Group. Procaps Group's average media sentiment score of 0.48 beat Aquestive Therapeutics' score of 0.22 indicating that Aquestive Therapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Aquestive Therapeutics received 195 more outperform votes than Procaps Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.67% of users gave Aquestive Therapeutics an outperform vote while only 37.50% of users gave Procaps Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Aquestive Therapeutics beats Procaps Group on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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