AMRN vs. GBIO, HRTX, YMAB, AUPH, PCRX, BLTE, KNSA, SYRE, MNKD, and ANIP
Should you be buying Amarin stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Amarin include Generation Bio (GBIO), Heron Therapeutics (HRTX), Y-mAbs Therapeutics (YMAB), Aurinia Pharmaceuticals (AUPH), Pacira BioSciences (PCRX), Belite Bio (BLTE), Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals (KNSA), Spyre Therapeutics (SYRE), MannKind (MNKD), and ANI Pharmaceuticals (ANIP). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Generation Bio (NASDAQ:GBIO) and Amarin (NASDAQ:AMRN) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, valuation, community ranking and earnings.
In the previous week, Generation Bio and Generation Bio both had 2 articles in the media. Amarin's average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat Generation Bio's score of 0.96 indicating that Generation Bio is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Amarin received 804 more outperform votes than Generation Bio when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.45% of users gave Amarin an outperform vote while only 67.86% of users gave Generation Bio an outperform vote.
Amarin has higher revenue and earnings than Generation Bio. Amarin is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Generation Bio, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Amarin has a net margin of -18.96% compared to Amarin's net margin of -1,696.87%. Generation Bio's return on equity of -9.48% beat Amarin's return on equity.
Generation Bio has a beta of 2.87, suggesting that its stock price is 187% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amarin has a beta of 1.96, suggesting that its stock price is 96% more volatile than the S&P 500.
95.2% of Generation Bio shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.3% of Amarin shares are held by institutional investors. 21.1% of Generation Bio shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Amarin shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Generation Bio currently has a consensus price target of $8.00, suggesting a potential upside of 151.57%. Amarin has a consensus price target of $1.08, suggesting a potential upside of 25.24%. Given Amarin's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Generation Bio is more favorable than Amarin.
Summary
Generation Bio beats Amarin on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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