PRQR vs. SCPH, PRLD, CAPR, GOSS, RIGL, RPTX, CRVO, ALIM, CTMX, and SKYE
Should you be buying ProQR Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ProQR Therapeutics include scPharmaceuticals (SCPH), Prelude Therapeutics (PRLD), Capricor Therapeutics (CAPR), Gossamer Bio (GOSS), Rigel Pharmaceuticals (RIGL), Repare Therapeutics (RPTX), CervoMed (CRVO), Alimera Sciences (ALIM), CytomX Therapeutics (CTMX), and Skye Bioscience (SKYE). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
scPharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:SCPH) and ProQR Therapeutics (NASDAQ:PRQR) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings and risk.
89.5% of scPharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.7% of ProQR Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. 4.7% of scPharmaceuticals shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.4% of ProQR Therapeutics shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
scPharmaceuticals currently has a consensus target price of $19.00, indicating a potential upside of 300.00%. ProQR Therapeutics has a consensus target price of $3.38, indicating a potential upside of 73.97%. Given ProQR Therapeutics' higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe scPharmaceuticals is more favorable than ProQR Therapeutics.
In the previous week, scPharmaceuticals had 33 more articles in the media than ProQR Therapeutics. MarketBeat recorded 38 mentions for scPharmaceuticals and 5 mentions for ProQR Therapeutics. ProQR Therapeutics' average media sentiment score of 0.23 beat scPharmaceuticals' score of -0.15 indicating that scPharmaceuticals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
ProQR Therapeutics has a net margin of -260.75% compared to ProQR Therapeutics' net margin of -327.29%. scPharmaceuticals' return on equity of -61.58% beat ProQR Therapeutics' return on equity.
ProQR Therapeutics has lower revenue, but higher earnings than scPharmaceuticals. ProQR Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than scPharmaceuticals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
scPharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.09, meaning that its stock price is 91% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ProQR Therapeutics has a beta of 0.3, meaning that its stock price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500.
ProQR Therapeutics received 169 more outperform votes than scPharmaceuticals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.24% of users gave scPharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 61.86% of users gave ProQR Therapeutics an outperform vote.
Summary
ProQR Therapeutics beats scPharmaceuticals on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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