MIRM vs. ICPT, CDMO, UROV, NGM, DRRX, ALPN, NUVL, ALKS, PRGO, and CRNX
Should you be buying Mirum Pharmaceuticals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mirum Pharmaceuticals include Intercept Pharmaceuticals (ICPT), Avid Bioservices (CDMO), Urovant Sciences (UROV), NGM Biopharmaceuticals (NGM), DURECT (DRRX), Alpine Immune Sciences (ALPN), Nuvalent (NUVL), Alkermes (ALKS), Perrigo (PRGO), and Crinetics Pharmaceuticals (CRNX). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Intercept Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ICPT) and Mirum Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:MIRM) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation and institutional ownership.
Intercept Pharmaceuticals presently has a consensus price target of $19.00, suggesting a potential upside of 0.00%. Mirum Pharmaceuticals has a consensus price target of $49.73, suggesting a potential upside of 106.94%. Given Intercept Pharmaceuticals' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Mirum Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than Intercept Pharmaceuticals.
Intercept Pharmaceuticals has higher revenue and earnings than Mirum Pharmaceuticals. Intercept Pharmaceuticals 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, Mirum Pharmaceuticals had 9 more articles in the media than Intercept Pharmaceuticals. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Mirum Pharmaceuticals and 1 mentions for Intercept Pharmaceuticals. Intercept Pharmaceuticals' average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Mirum Pharmaceuticals' score of 0.30 indicating that Mirum Pharmaceuticals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Intercept Pharmaceuticals received 956 more outperform votes than Mirum Pharmaceuticals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.37% of users gave Mirum Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 72.27% of users gave Intercept Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote.
83.8% of Intercept Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.2% of Intercept Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 22.9% of Mirum Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Intercept Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mirum Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 1.13, indicating that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Intercept Pharmaceuticals has a net margin of -19.39% compared to Intercept Pharmaceuticals' net margin of -69.67%. Intercept Pharmaceuticals' return on equity of -56.46% beat Mirum Pharmaceuticals' return on equity.
Summary
Mirum Pharmaceuticals beats Intercept Pharmaceuticals on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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