ESPR vs. RDUS, OMER, PAHC, CARA, CALT, PTGX, TARO, EWTX, ARDX, and GPCR
Should you be buying Esperion Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Esperion Therapeutics include Radius Recycling (RDUS), Omeros (OMER), Phibro Animal Health (PAHC), Cara Therapeutics (CARA), Calliditas Therapeutics AB (publ) (CALT), Protagonist Therapeutics (PTGX), Taro Pharmaceutical Industries (TARO), Edgewise Therapeutics (EWTX), Ardelyx (ARDX), and Structure Therapeutics (GPCR).
Esperion Therapeutics (NASDAQ:ESPR) and Radius Recycling (NASDAQ:RDUS) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability and earnings.
47.4% of Esperion Therapeutics shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.1% of Radius Recycling shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Esperion Therapeutics shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.7% of Radius Recycling shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Esperion Therapeutics presently has a consensus price target of $9.33, indicating a potential upside of 332.10%. Given Esperion Therapeutics' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Esperion Therapeutics is more favorable than Radius Recycling.
Radius Recycling has higher revenue and earnings than Esperion Therapeutics. Radius Recycling is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Esperion Therapeutics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Radius Recycling has a net margin of -2.28% compared to Esperion Therapeutics' net margin of -37.65%. Esperion Therapeutics' return on equity of 0.00% beat Radius Recycling's return on equity.
Esperion Therapeutics received 258 more outperform votes than Radius Recycling when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.92% of users gave Esperion Therapeutics an outperform vote while only 54.34% of users gave Radius Recycling an outperform vote.
Esperion Therapeutics has a beta of 0.89, meaning that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Radius Recycling has a beta of 1.64, meaning that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Esperion Therapeutics and Esperion Therapeutics both had 4 articles in the media. Radius Recycling's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Esperion Therapeutics' score of 0.69 indicating that Radius Recycling is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Esperion Therapeutics beats Radius Recycling on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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