EGRX vs. ALRN, KZR, EQ, CKPT, KRON, AEON, CALC, CARM, MURA, and ANVS
Should you be buying Eagle Pharmaceuticals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eagle Pharmaceuticals include Aileron Therapeutics (ALRN), Kezar Life Sciences (KZR), Equillium (EQ), Checkpoint Therapeutics (CKPT), Kronos Bio (KRON), AEON Biopharma (AEON), CalciMedica (CALC), Carisma Therapeutics (CARM), Mural Oncology (MURA), and Annovis Bio (ANVS). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Aileron Therapeutics (NASDAQ:ALRN) and Eagle Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:EGRX) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership and profitability.
In the previous week, Aileron Therapeutics had 4 more articles in the media than Eagle Pharmaceuticals. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Aileron Therapeutics and 1 mentions for Eagle Pharmaceuticals. Eagle Pharmaceuticals' average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Aileron Therapeutics' score of 0.00 indicating that Aileron Therapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Aileron Therapeutics currently has a consensus price target of $19.00, indicating a potential upside of 403.98%. Eagle Pharmaceuticals has a consensus price target of $17.00, indicating a potential upside of 257.14%. Given Eagle Pharmaceuticals' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Aileron Therapeutics is more favorable than Eagle Pharmaceuticals.
Aileron Therapeutics has a beta of 2.32, indicating that its stock price is 132% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eagle Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.46, indicating that its stock price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Aileron Therapeutics' return on equity of 0.00% beat Eagle Pharmaceuticals' return on equity.
Eagle Pharmaceuticals has higher revenue and earnings than Aileron Therapeutics. Aileron Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Eagle Pharmaceuticals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
90.9% of Aileron Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.4% of Eagle Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. 5.6% of Aileron Therapeutics shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 28.9% of Eagle Pharmaceuticals shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Eagle Pharmaceuticals received 200 more outperform votes than Aileron Therapeutics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.67% of users gave Eagle Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 66.88% of users gave Aileron Therapeutics an outperform vote.
Summary
Eagle Pharmaceuticals beats Aileron Therapeutics on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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