AQST vs. XERS, CHMA, SCPH, OPTN, CMRX, PRTA, ARQT, SAVA, GYRE, and INVA
Should you be buying Aquestive Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aquestive Therapeutics include Xeris Biopharma (XERS), Chiasma (CHMA), scPharmaceuticals (SCPH), OptiNose (OPTN), Chimerix (CMRX), Prothena (PRTA), Arcutis Biotherapeutics (ARQT), Cassava Sciences (SAVA), Gyre Therapeutics (GYRE), and Innoviva (INVA). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Xeris Biopharma (NASDAQ:XERS) and Aquestive Therapeutics (NASDAQ:AQST) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking and profitability.
Aquestive Therapeutics has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Xeris Biopharma. Aquestive Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Xeris Biopharma, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Xeris Biopharma presently has a consensus price target of $4.63, suggesting a potential upside of 105.10%. Aquestive Therapeutics has a consensus price target of $8.00, suggesting a potential upside of 177.78%. Given Xeris Biopharma's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Aquestive Therapeutics is more favorable than Xeris Biopharma.
Xeris Biopharma has a net margin of -37.58% compared to Xeris Biopharma's net margin of -55.85%. Xeris Biopharma's return on equity of 0.00% beat Aquestive Therapeutics' return on equity.
42.8% of Xeris Biopharma shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.5% of Aquestive Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. 4.6% of Xeris Biopharma shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.9% of Aquestive Therapeutics shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Xeris Biopharma has a beta of 2.37, suggesting that its stock price is 137% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Aquestive Therapeutics has a beta of 2.95, suggesting that its stock price is 195% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Xeris Biopharma had 1 more articles in the media than Aquestive Therapeutics. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Xeris Biopharma and 4 mentions for Aquestive Therapeutics. Xeris Biopharma's average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat Aquestive Therapeutics' score of 0.49 indicating that Aquestive Therapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Aquestive Therapeutics received 57 more outperform votes than Xeris Biopharma when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.80% of users gave Xeris Biopharma an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave Aquestive Therapeutics an outperform vote.
Summary
Aquestive Therapeutics beats Xeris Biopharma on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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