NKTR vs. OMER, CPIX, ASMB, LLY, JNJ, ABBV, MRK, PFE, BMY, and ZTS
Should you be buying Nektar Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nektar Therapeutics include Omeros (OMER), Cumberland Pharmaceuticals (CPIX), Assembly Biosciences (ASMB), Eli Lilly and Company (LLY), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), AbbVie (ABBV), Merck & Co., Inc. (MRK), Pfizer (PFE), Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), and Zoetis (ZTS). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceuticals" industry.
Nektar Therapeutics vs.
Nektar Therapeutics (NASDAQ:NKTR) and Omeros (NASDAQ:OMER) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.
Nektar Therapeutics has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Omeros has a beta of 2.03, meaning that its stock price is 103% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Nektar Therapeutics currently has a consensus target price of $4.92, suggesting a potential upside of 487.20%. Omeros has a consensus target price of $22.50, suggesting a potential upside of 145.63%. Given Nektar Therapeutics' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Nektar Therapeutics is more favorable than Omeros.
75.9% of Nektar Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.8% of Omeros shares are held by institutional investors. 3.7% of Nektar Therapeutics shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 12.3% of Omeros shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Omeros had 4 more articles in the media than Nektar Therapeutics. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Omeros and 8 mentions for Nektar Therapeutics. Nektar Therapeutics' average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Omeros' score of 0.28 indicating that Nektar Therapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Omeros has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Nektar Therapeutics' net margin of -180.70%. Omeros' return on equity of 0.00% beat Nektar Therapeutics' return on equity.
Omeros has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Nektar Therapeutics. Omeros is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nektar Therapeutics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Omeros received 110 more outperform votes than Nektar Therapeutics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.87% of users gave Omeros an outperform vote while only 70.78% of users gave Nektar Therapeutics an outperform vote.
Summary
Nektar Therapeutics beats Omeros on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:NKTR) was last updated on 3/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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