SPRO vs. AGLE, TTPH, NBTX, URGN, QTTB, AVIR, VTYX, KMDA, ADCT, and VNDA
Should you be buying Spero Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Spero Therapeutics include Aeglea BioTherapeutics (AGLE), Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals (TTPH), Nanobiotix (NBTX), UroGen Pharma (URGN), Q32 Bio (QTTB), Atea Pharmaceuticals (AVIR), Ventyx Biosciences (VTYX), Kamada (KMDA), ADC Therapeutics (ADCT), and Vanda Pharmaceuticals (VNDA). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Aeglea BioTherapeutics (NASDAQ:AGLE) and Spero Therapeutics (NASDAQ:SPRO) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Aeglea BioTherapeutics received 53 more outperform votes than Spero Therapeutics when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.31% of users gave Spero Therapeutics an outperform vote while only 56.70% of users gave Aeglea BioTherapeutics an outperform vote.
25.6% of Spero Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. 6.6% of Aeglea BioTherapeutics shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.5% of Spero 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.
Aeglea BioTherapeutics presently has a consensus target price of $17.50, indicating a potential upside of ∞. Spero Therapeutics has a consensus target price of $7.00, indicating a potential upside of 392.96%. Given Spero Therapeutics' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Aeglea BioTherapeutics is more favorable than Spero Therapeutics.
Spero Therapeutics has higher revenue and earnings than Aeglea BioTherapeutics. Aeglea BioTherapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Spero Therapeutics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Spero Therapeutics has a net margin of 21.09% compared to Spero Therapeutics' net margin of -22,195.36%. Aeglea BioTherapeutics' return on equity of 35.42% beat Spero Therapeutics' return on equity.
Aeglea BioTherapeutics has a beta of 2.57, indicating that its stock price is 157% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Spero Therapeutics has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Spero Therapeutics had 2 more articles in the media than Aeglea BioTherapeutics. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Spero Therapeutics and 0 mentions for Aeglea BioTherapeutics. Aeglea BioTherapeutics' average media sentiment score of 1.46 beat Spero Therapeutics' score of 0.00 indicating that Spero Therapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Spero Therapeutics beats Aeglea BioTherapeutics on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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