AFMD vs. ENTA, XBIT, IMMP, ME, DSGN, ACRV, FHTX, ALDX, TSVT, and QURE
Should you be buying Affimed stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Affimed include Enanta Pharmaceuticals (ENTA), XBiotech (XBIT), Immutep (IMMP), 23andMe (ME), Design Therapeutics (DSGN), Acrivon Therapeutics (ACRV), Foghorn Therapeutics (FHTX), Aldeyra Therapeutics (ALDX), 2seventy bio (TSVT), and uniQure (QURE). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Affimed (NASDAQ:AFMD) and Enanta Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ENTA) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends and analyst recommendations.
30.8% of Affimed shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.0% of Enanta Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.8% of Affimed shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.6% of Enanta Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Affimed currently has a consensus price target of $45.00, suggesting a potential upside of 934.48%. Enanta Pharmaceuticals has a consensus price target of $19.00, suggesting a potential upside of 52.37%. Given Affimed's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Affimed is more favorable than Enanta Pharmaceuticals.
Affimed received 120 more outperform votes than Enanta Pharmaceuticals when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.92% of users gave Affimed an outperform vote while only 56.47% of users gave Enanta Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Affimed had 8 more articles in the media than Enanta Pharmaceuticals. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Affimed and 2 mentions for Enanta Pharmaceuticals. Enanta Pharmaceuticals' average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat Affimed's score of 0.40 indicating that Enanta Pharmaceuticals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Enanta Pharmaceuticals has a net margin of -180.76% compared to Affimed's net margin of -1,280.27%. Enanta Pharmaceuticals' return on equity of -64.85% beat Affimed's return on equity.
Affimed has a beta of 2.05, meaning that its stock price is 105% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Enanta Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.54, meaning that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Affimed has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Enanta Pharmaceuticals. Enanta Pharmaceuticals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Affimed, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Affimed beats Enanta Pharmaceuticals on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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