NVCT vs. ERAS, KRRO, LRMR, FULC, VERV, NGNE, MREO, SLRN, TBPH, and CTNM
Should you be buying Nuvectis Pharma stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nuvectis Pharma include Erasca (ERAS), Korro Bio (KRRO), Larimar Therapeutics (LRMR), Fulcrum Therapeutics (FULC), Verve Therapeutics (VERV), Neurogene (NGNE), Mereo BioPharma Group (MREO), Acelyrin (SLRN), Theravance Biopharma (TBPH), and Contineum Therapeutics (CTNM). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Erasca (NASDAQ:ERAS) and Nuvectis Pharma (NASDAQ:NVCT) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, risk, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and profitability.
Nuvectis Pharma's return on equity of -38.83% beat Erasca's return on equity.
Erasca presently has a consensus target price of $6.83, indicating a potential upside of 171.16%. Nuvectis Pharma has a consensus target price of $21.00, indicating a potential upside of 219.15%. Given Erasca's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Nuvectis Pharma is more favorable than Erasca.
In the previous week, Erasca had 16 more articles in the media than Nuvectis Pharma. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Erasca and 3 mentions for Nuvectis Pharma. Erasca's average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Nuvectis Pharma's score of 0.96 indicating that Nuvectis Pharma is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Nuvectis Pharma is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Erasca, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Erasca received 10 more outperform votes than Nuvectis Pharma when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 88.89% of users gave Nuvectis Pharma an outperform vote while only 64.29% of users gave Erasca an outperform vote.
Erasca has a beta of 1.06, meaning that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nuvectis Pharma has a beta of 0.45, meaning that its stock price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.
67.8% of Erasca shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.8% of Nuvectis Pharma shares are held by institutional investors. 21.5% of Erasca shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 38.9% of Nuvectis Pharma shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Erasca beats Nuvectis Pharma on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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