VERA vs. ASND, LEGN, CERE, VKTX, ITCI, JAZZ, BPMC, BBIO, IONS, and OGN
Should you be buying Vera Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vera Therapeutics include Ascendis Pharma A/S (ASND), Legend Biotech (LEGN), Cerevel Therapeutics (CERE), Viking Therapeutics (VKTX), Intra-Cellular Therapies (ITCI), Jazz Pharmaceuticals (JAZZ), Blueprint Medicines (BPMC), BridgeBio Pharma (BBIO), Ionis Pharmaceuticals (IONS), and Organon & Co. (OGN). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Ascendis Pharma A/S (NASDAQ:ASND) and Vera Therapeutics (NASDAQ:VERA) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability and media sentiment.
Ascendis Pharma A/S presently has a consensus target price of $179.44, indicating a potential upside of 32.82%. Vera Therapeutics has a consensus target price of $42.86, indicating a potential upside of 12.81%. Given Vera Therapeutics' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Ascendis Pharma A/S is more favorable than Vera Therapeutics.
Vera Therapeutics has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Ascendis Pharma A/S. Vera Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ascendis Pharma A/S, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ascendis Pharma A/S has a beta of 0.54, indicating that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vera Therapeutics has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Ascendis Pharma A/S had 4 more articles in the media than Vera Therapeutics. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Ascendis Pharma A/S and 7 mentions for Vera Therapeutics. Vera Therapeutics' average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Ascendis Pharma A/S's score of 0.79 indicating that Ascendis Pharma A/S is being referred to more favorably in the media.
99.2% of Vera Therapeutics shares are owned by institutional investors. 40.0% of Ascendis Pharma A/S shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 21.7% of Vera Therapeutics shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Vera Therapeutics has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Vera Therapeutics' net margin of -152.68%. Ascendis Pharma A/S's return on equity of -52.43% beat Vera Therapeutics' return on equity.
Ascendis Pharma A/S received 386 more outperform votes than Vera Therapeutics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.45% of users gave Ascendis Pharma A/S an outperform vote while only 55.56% of users gave Vera Therapeutics an outperform vote.
Summary
Ascendis Pharma A/S and Vera Therapeutics tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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