ASRT vs. NLTX, VRCA, STTK, AMRN, VTYX, PGEN, NBTX, XERS, SKYE, and QTTB
Should you be buying Assertio stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Assertio include Neoleukin Therapeutics (NLTX), Verrica Pharmaceuticals (VRCA), Shattuck Labs (STTK), Amarin (AMRN), Ventyx Biosciences (VTYX), Precigen (PGEN), Nanobiotix (NBTX), Xeris Biopharma (XERS), Skye Bioscience (SKYE), and Q32 Bio (QTTB). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Assertio (NASDAQ:ASRT) and Neoleukin Therapeutics (NASDAQ:NLTX) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, dividends, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and risk.
Neoleukin Therapeutics has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Assertio. Neoleukin Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Assertio, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Neoleukin Therapeutics has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Assertio's net margin of -234.40%. Assertio's return on equity of 10.80% beat Neoleukin Therapeutics' return on equity.
Assertio received 55 more outperform votes than Neoleukin Therapeutics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.99% of users gave Assertio an outperform vote while only 45.87% of users gave Neoleukin Therapeutics an outperform vote.
Assertio presently has a consensus price target of $4.58, indicating a potential upside of 360.73%. Given Assertio's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Assertio is more favorable than Neoleukin Therapeutics.
49.0% of Assertio shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.4% of Neoleukin Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. 3.2% of Assertio shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Neoleukin Therapeutics shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Assertio had 10 more articles in the media than Neoleukin Therapeutics. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Assertio and 0 mentions for Neoleukin Therapeutics. Assertio's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Neoleukin Therapeutics' score of 0.00 indicating that Assertio is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Assertio has a beta of 1, indicating that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Neoleukin Therapeutics has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Assertio beats Neoleukin Therapeutics on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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