SRRK vs. BCRX, CGEM, AUTL, IMTX, PROK, FDMT, VIR, RLAY, MESO, and TARS
Should you be buying Scholar Rock stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Scholar Rock include BioCryst Pharmaceuticals (BCRX), Cullinan Oncology (CGEM), Autolus Therapeutics (AUTL), Immatics (IMTX), ProKidney (PROK), 4D Molecular Therapeutics (FDMT), Vir Biotechnology (VIR), Relay Therapeutics (RLAY), Mesoblast (MESO), and Tarsus Pharmaceuticals (TARS). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Scholar Rock (NASDAQ:SRRK) and BioCryst Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:BCRX) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership and risk.
Scholar Rock presently has a consensus price target of $25.17, suggesting a potential upside of 101.49%. BioCryst Pharmaceuticals has a consensus price target of $14.00, suggesting a potential upside of 122.93%. Given BioCryst Pharmaceuticals' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe BioCryst Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than Scholar Rock.
Scholar Rock has a beta of 0.94, indicating that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BioCryst Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 1.96, indicating that its share price is 96% more volatile than the S&P 500.
91.1% of Scholar Rock shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.9% of BioCryst Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by institutional investors. 26.2% of Scholar Rock shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.4% of BioCryst Pharmaceuticals shares are owned 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.
BioCryst Pharmaceuticals received 329 more outperform votes than Scholar Rock when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.43% of users gave BioCryst Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 63.25% of users gave Scholar Rock an outperform vote.
Scholar Rock has a net margin of 0.00% compared to BioCryst Pharmaceuticals' net margin of -58.69%. BioCryst Pharmaceuticals' return on equity of 0.00% beat Scholar Rock's return on equity.
In the previous week, BioCryst Pharmaceuticals had 6 more articles in the media than Scholar Rock. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for BioCryst Pharmaceuticals and 10 mentions for Scholar Rock. BioCryst Pharmaceuticals' average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Scholar Rock's score of 0.02 indicating that BioCryst Pharmaceuticals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Scholar Rock has higher earnings, but lower revenue than BioCryst Pharmaceuticals. Scholar Rock is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
BioCryst Pharmaceuticals beats Scholar Rock on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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