MRNS vs. RAPT, PBYI, AKBA, AVIR, NKTX, URGN, NBTX, NLTX, KMDA, and XOMA
Should you be buying Marinus Pharmaceuticals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Marinus Pharmaceuticals include RAPT Therapeutics (RAPT), Puma Biotechnology (PBYI), Akebia Therapeutics (AKBA), Atea Pharmaceuticals (AVIR), Nkarta (NKTX), UroGen Pharma (URGN), Nanobiotix (NBTX), Neoleukin Therapeutics (NLTX), Kamada (KMDA), and XOMA (XOMA). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Marinus Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:MRNS) and RAPT Therapeutics (NASDAQ:RAPT) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
98.8% of Marinus Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.1% of RAPT Therapeutics shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.5% of Marinus Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.6% of RAPT Therapeutics shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
RAPT Therapeutics has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Marinus Pharmaceuticals. RAPT Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Marinus Pharmaceuticals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Marinus Pharmaceuticals received 338 more outperform votes than RAPT Therapeutics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.27% of users gave Marinus Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 66.17% of users gave RAPT Therapeutics an outperform vote.
Marinus Pharmaceuticals presently has a consensus target price of $13.79, indicating a potential upside of 870.82%. RAPT Therapeutics has a consensus target price of $24.67, indicating a potential upside of 515.13%. Given Marinus Pharmaceuticals' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Marinus Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than RAPT Therapeutics.
In the previous week, Marinus Pharmaceuticals had 2 more articles in the media than RAPT Therapeutics. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Marinus Pharmaceuticals and 1 mentions for RAPT Therapeutics. RAPT Therapeutics' average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Marinus Pharmaceuticals' score of 0.37 indicating that RAPT Therapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
RAPT Therapeutics has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Marinus Pharmaceuticals' net margin of -513.80%. RAPT Therapeutics' return on equity of -72.61% beat Marinus Pharmaceuticals' return on equity.
Marinus Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RAPT Therapeutics has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Marinus Pharmaceuticals beats RAPT Therapeutics on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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