URGN vs. AKBA, SPPI, PBYI, RAPT, MRNS, MNKD, DAWN, ABCL, CALT, and MIRM
Should you be buying UroGen Pharma stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of UroGen Pharma include Akebia Therapeutics (AKBA), Spectrum Pharmaceuticals (SPPI), Puma Biotechnology (PBYI), RAPT Therapeutics (RAPT), Marinus Pharmaceuticals (MRNS), MannKind (MNKD), Day One Biopharmaceuticals (DAWN), AbCellera Biologics (ABCL), Calliditas Therapeutics AB (publ) (CALT), and Mirum Pharmaceuticals (MIRM). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Akebia Therapeutics (NASDAQ:AKBA) and UroGen Pharma (NASDAQ:URGN) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, earnings, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends and institutional ownership.
Akebia Therapeutics has higher revenue and earnings than UroGen Pharma. Akebia Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than UroGen Pharma, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Akebia Therapeutics presently has a consensus price target of $5.00, suggesting a potential upside of 346.43%. UroGen Pharma has a consensus price target of $46.00, suggesting a potential upside of 245.86%. Given UroGen Pharma's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Akebia Therapeutics is more favorable than UroGen Pharma.
In the previous week, Akebia Therapeutics had 1 more articles in the media than UroGen Pharma. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Akebia Therapeutics and 1 mentions for UroGen Pharma. Akebia Therapeutics' average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat UroGen Pharma's score of 1.71 indicating that UroGen Pharma is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Akebia Therapeutics has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, UroGen Pharma has a beta of 1.09, meaning that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
33.9% of Akebia Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.3% of UroGen Pharma shares are held by institutional investors. 4.1% of Akebia Therapeutics shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.1% of UroGen Pharma shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Akebia Therapeutics received 56 more outperform votes than UroGen Pharma when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.29% of users gave UroGen Pharma an outperform vote while only 63.96% of users gave Akebia Therapeutics an outperform vote.
Akebia Therapeutics has a net margin of -22.99% compared to Akebia Therapeutics' net margin of -123.74%.
Summary
Akebia Therapeutics beats UroGen Pharma on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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