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Heron Therapeutics (HRTX) Competitors

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$1.65 -0.03 (-1.79%)
(As of 12/17/2024 ET)

HRTX vs. COLL, SEPN, BCAX, ZYME, GYRE, PSTX, COGT, PAHC, NUVB, and AVBP

Should you be buying Heron Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Heron Therapeutics include Collegium Pharmaceutical (COLL), Septerna (SEPN), Bicara Therapeutics (BCAX), Zymeworks (ZYME), Gyre Therapeutics (GYRE), Poseida Therapeutics (PSTX), Cogent Biosciences (COGT), Phibro Animal Health (PAHC), Nuvation Bio (NUVB), and ArriVent BioPharma (AVBP). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

Heron Therapeutics vs.

Collegium Pharmaceutical (NASDAQ:COLL) and Heron Therapeutics (NASDAQ:HRTX) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and profitability.

Collegium Pharmaceutical currently has a consensus target price of $42.60, suggesting a potential upside of 37.86%. Heron Therapeutics has a consensus target price of $5.67, suggesting a potential upside of 243.43%. Given Heron Therapeutics' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Heron Therapeutics is more favorable than Collegium Pharmaceutical.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Collegium Pharmaceutical
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.60
Heron Therapeutics
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Collegium Pharmaceutical has higher revenue and earnings than Heron Therapeutics. Heron Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Collegium Pharmaceutical, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Collegium Pharmaceutical$599.25M1.66$48.15M$2.3213.32
Heron Therapeutics$137.74M1.82-$110.56M-$0.18-9.17

Heron Therapeutics received 279 more outperform votes than Collegium Pharmaceutical when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.09% of users gave Heron Therapeutics an outperform vote while only 65.25% of users gave Collegium Pharmaceutical an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Collegium PharmaceuticalOutperform Votes
385
65.25%
Underperform Votes
205
34.75%
Heron TherapeuticsOutperform Votes
664
69.09%
Underperform Votes
297
30.91%

Collegium Pharmaceutical has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Heron Therapeutics has a beta of 1.67, suggesting that its stock price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500.

80.0% of Heron Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. 4.0% of Collegium Pharmaceutical shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.8% of Heron Therapeutics shares are held by company 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.

In the previous week, Collegium Pharmaceutical had 4 more articles in the media than Heron Therapeutics. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Collegium Pharmaceutical and 0 mentions for Heron Therapeutics. Collegium Pharmaceutical's average media sentiment score of 1.63 beat Heron Therapeutics' score of 0.94 indicating that Collegium Pharmaceutical is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Collegium Pharmaceutical Very Positive
Heron Therapeutics Positive

Collegium Pharmaceutical has a net margin of 14.78% compared to Heron Therapeutics' net margin of -20.31%. Collegium Pharmaceutical's return on equity of 104.67% beat Heron Therapeutics' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Collegium Pharmaceutical14.78% 104.67% 18.38%
Heron Therapeutics -20.31%N/A -12.72%

Summary

Collegium Pharmaceutical beats Heron Therapeutics on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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HRTX vs. The Competition

MetricHeron TherapeuticsPharmaceutical IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$250.96M$6.85B$5.14B$9.31B
Dividend YieldN/A3.06%4.81%4.06%
P/E Ratio-9.1710.75135.1817.53
Price / Sales1.82287.861,235.42140.39
Price / CashN/A56.6540.6537.95
Price / Book-7.175.394.884.92
Net Income-$110.56M$152.04M$118.97M$225.78M
7 Day Performance-2.37%-4.32%16.19%-1.58%
1 Month Performance41.03%2.80%16.02%6.67%
1 Year Performance-5.17%17.30%34.95%22.48%

Heron Therapeutics Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
HRTX
Heron Therapeutics
4.2144 of 5 stars
$1.65
-1.8%
$5.67
+243.4%
-8.8%$250.96M$137.74M-9.17300
COLL
Collegium Pharmaceutical
3.9712 of 5 stars
$30.57
+1.6%
$42.60
+39.4%
+4.3%$985.88M$599.25M12.97210News Coverage
Positive News
SEPN
Septerna
1.7246 of 5 stars
$22.05
-1.5%
$43.67
+98.0%
N/A$979.02MN/A0.00N/A
BCAX
Bicara Therapeutics
N/A$17.57
+0.4%
$43.00
+144.7%
N/A$956.09MN/A0.0032
ZYME
Zymeworks
3.0526 of 5 stars
$13.75
+9.3%
$18.83
+37.0%
+46.9%$947.10M$76.01M-9.25290Analyst Upgrade
Positive News
GYRE
Gyre Therapeutics
0.3745 of 5 stars
$10.12
+5.0%
N/A-54.6%$946.43M$105.03M0.0040News Coverage
Gap Up
PSTX
Poseida Therapeutics
3.7029 of 5 stars
$9.52
+0.1%
$9.50
-0.2%
+193.2%$930.77M$64.70M-15.10260
COGT
Cogent Biosciences
2.265 of 5 stars
$8.35
+2.5%
$14.83
+77.6%
+67.8%$922.34MN/A-3.2980Short Interest ↑
PAHC
Phibro Animal Health
4.1953 of 5 stars
$22.71
+0.2%
$19.00
-16.3%
+97.9%$919.82M$1.05B52.561,940Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
NUVB
Nuvation Bio
1.9641 of 5 stars
$2.71
+3.8%
$6.60
+143.5%
+99.6%$912.11MN/A0.0060
AVBP
ArriVent BioPharma
1.1598 of 5 stars
$26.78
+0.2%
$36.80
+37.4%
N/A$902.41MN/A0.0040Short Interest ↑
Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:HRTX) was last updated on 12/18/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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