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Edge Therapeutics (EDGE) Competitors

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EDGE vs. PBH, PRGO, PTCT, ZLAB, RARE, OGN, RNA, RYTM, APLS, and MRUS

Should you be buying Edge Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Edge Therapeutics include Prestige Consumer Healthcare (PBH), Perrigo (PRGO), PTC Therapeutics (PTCT), Zai Lab (ZLAB), Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical (RARE), Organon & Co. (OGN), Avidity Biosciences (RNA), Rhythm Pharmaceuticals (RYTM), Apellis Pharmaceuticals (APLS), and Merus (MRUS). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.

Edge Therapeutics vs.

Edge Therapeutics (NASDAQ:EDGE) and Prestige Consumer Healthcare (NYSE:PBH) are both medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings, valuation and dividends.

Prestige Consumer Healthcare has a net margin of 19.13% compared to Edge Therapeutics' net margin of 0.00%. Prestige Consumer Healthcare's return on equity of 12.36% beat Edge Therapeutics' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Edge TherapeuticsN/A -81.29% -56.92%
Prestige Consumer Healthcare 19.13%12.36%6.39%

Prestige Consumer Healthcare has a consensus price target of $92.60, suggesting a potential upside of 11.80%. Given Prestige Consumer Healthcare's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Prestige Consumer Healthcare is more favorable than Edge Therapeutics.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Edge Therapeutics
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Prestige Consumer Healthcare
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.60

In the previous week, Prestige Consumer Healthcare had 10 more articles in the media than Edge Therapeutics. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Prestige Consumer Healthcare and 0 mentions for Edge Therapeutics. Prestige Consumer Healthcare's average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat Edge Therapeutics' score of 0.00 indicating that Prestige Consumer Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Edge Therapeutics Neutral
Prestige Consumer Healthcare Positive

Edge Therapeutics has a beta of 3.65, suggesting that its stock price is 265% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Prestige Consumer Healthcare has a beta of 0.46, suggesting that its stock price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500.

28.0% of Edge Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.9% of Prestige Consumer Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. 37.1% of Edge Therapeutics shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Prestige Consumer Healthcare shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Prestige Consumer Healthcare received 318 more outperform votes than Edge Therapeutics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.41% of users gave Prestige Consumer Healthcare an outperform vote while only 66.79% of users gave Edge Therapeutics an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Edge TherapeuticsOutperform Votes
177
66.79%
Underperform Votes
88
33.21%
Prestige Consumer HealthcareOutperform Votes
495
70.41%
Underperform Votes
208
29.59%

Prestige Consumer Healthcare has higher revenue and earnings than Edge Therapeutics.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Edge TherapeuticsN/AN/A-$40.86MN/AN/A
Prestige Consumer Healthcare$1.12B3.67$209.34M$4.2719.40

Summary

Prestige Consumer Healthcare beats Edge Therapeutics on 13 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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EDGE vs. The Competition

MetricEdge TherapeuticsPharmaceutical Preparations IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$1.16B$6.93B$5.64B$8.08B
Dividend YieldN/A2.71%4.89%4.04%
P/E RatioN/A6.1223.7319.00
Price / SalesN/A226.08381.75120.61
Price / CashN/A65.6738.0534.64
Price / Book38.706.656.904.26
Net Income-$40.86M$139.34M$3.18B$247.00M

Edge Therapeutics Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
EDGE
Edge Therapeutics
N/A$36.77
-0.8%
N/A+647.0%$1.16BN/A0.00N/A
PBH
Prestige Consumer Healthcare
4.339 of 5 stars
$85.67
+1.7%
$92.60
+8.1%
+14.2%$4.24B$1.12B20.06540Analyst Downgrade
Insider Trade
News Coverage
Positive News
PRGO
Perrigo
4.8146 of 5 stars
$29.50
+0.7%
$33.00
+11.9%
-8.8%$4.02B$4.37B-25.219,140Insider Trade
Short Interest ↓
PTCT
PTC Therapeutics
3.203 of 5 stars
$51.93
+0.3%
$62.08
+19.6%
+71.3%$4.01B$806.78M-8.741,410Analyst Upgrade
ZLAB
Zai Lab
2.1079 of 5 stars
$35.91
+5.6%
$40.05
+11.5%
+76.7%$3.93B$398.99M-12.962,175Gap Down
High Trading Volume
RARE
Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical
4.3345 of 5 stars
$40.87
-0.6%
$93.50
+128.8%
-21.0%$3.78B$560.23M-6.451,276
OGN
Organon & Co.
4.8619 of 5 stars
$14.45
+1.1%
$20.80
+44.0%
-14.5%$3.72B$6.40B4.3410,000Positive News
RNA
Avidity Biosciences
2.0798 of 5 stars
$29.55
+3.5%
$65.20
+120.6%
+40.7%$3.53B$10.90M-10.26190Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
Gap Up
RYTM
Rhythm Pharmaceuticals
4.3352 of 5 stars
$52.97
-0.5%
$69.08
+30.4%
+23.6%$3.26B$130.13M-12.23140
APLS
Apellis Pharmaceuticals
4.2425 of 5 stars
$26.00
+3.8%
$45.53
+75.1%
-58.0%$3.23B$781.37M-12.81770Short Interest ↑
MRUS
Merus
2.3016 of 5 stars
$46.29
+3.7%
$85.77
+85.3%
-0.3%$3.17B$36.13M-11.7237Analyst Forecast
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This page (NASDAQ:EDGE) was last updated on 3/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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