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$3.34 -0.25 (-6.95%)
(As of 11/15/2024 ET)

PRME vs. TARS, IMCR, BCRX, NVAX, VIR, MESO, IMTX, CRGX, CGEM, and LENZ

Should you be buying Prime Medicine stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Prime Medicine include Tarsus Pharmaceuticals (TARS), Immunocore (IMCR), BioCryst Pharmaceuticals (BCRX), Novavax (NVAX), Vir Biotechnology (VIR), Mesoblast (MESO), Immatics (IMTX), CARGO Therapeutics (CRGX), Cullinan Therapeutics (CGEM), and LENZ Therapeutics (LENZ). These companies are all part of the "biological products, except diagnostic" industry.

Prime Medicine vs.

Tarsus Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:TARS) and Prime Medicine (NYSE:PRME) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, earnings, community ranking, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and media sentiment.

Prime Medicine has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Tarsus Pharmaceuticals' net margin of -103.64%. Tarsus Pharmaceuticals' return on equity of -55.86% beat Prime Medicine's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals-103.64% -55.86% -39.28%
Prime Medicine N/A -107.87%-74.97%

Tarsus Pharmaceuticals currently has a consensus price target of $54.20, suggesting a potential upside of 20.90%. Prime Medicine has a consensus price target of $13.25, suggesting a potential upside of 296.11%. Given Prime Medicine's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Prime Medicine is more favorable than Tarsus Pharmaceuticals.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Prime Medicine
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.89

Tarsus Pharmaceuticals has higher revenue and earnings than Prime Medicine. Tarsus Pharmaceuticals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Prime Medicine, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals$17.45M98.21-$135.89M-$3.81-11.77
Prime MedicineN/AN/A-$198.13M-$2.05-1.63

Tarsus Pharmaceuticals received 26 more outperform votes than Prime Medicine when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.52% of users gave Prime Medicine an outperform vote while only 65.22% of users gave Tarsus Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Tarsus PharmaceuticalsOutperform Votes
45
65.22%
Underperform Votes
24
34.78%
Prime MedicineOutperform Votes
19
65.52%
Underperform Votes
10
34.48%

90.0% of Tarsus Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.4% of Prime Medicine shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.3% of Tarsus Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 23.5% of Prime Medicine shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Tarsus Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 1, indicating that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Prime Medicine has a beta of 2.09, indicating that its stock price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Prime Medicine had 2 more articles in the media than Tarsus Pharmaceuticals. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Prime Medicine and 18 mentions for Tarsus Pharmaceuticals. Tarsus Pharmaceuticals' average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat Prime Medicine's score of 0.19 indicating that Tarsus Pharmaceuticals is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals
3 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
11 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Prime Medicine
4 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Summary

Tarsus Pharmaceuticals and Prime Medicine tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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PRME vs. The Competition

MetricPrime MedicineBiological Products IndustryMedical SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$438.73M$2.94B$5.12B$19.76B
Dividend YieldN/A1.81%5.18%3.50%
P/E Ratio-1.6320.4872.8137.06
Price / SalesN/A224.491,250.2017.77
Price / CashN/A176.6640.7021.54
Price / Book2.324.056.454.64
Net Income-$198.13M-$42.42M$119.73M$982.94M
7 Day Performance-18.41%-10.63%-5.13%-2.12%
1 Month Performance-11.97%-5.81%-2.71%-0.39%
1 Year Performance-49.32%24.19%31.08%23.34%

Prime Medicine Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PRME
Prime Medicine
3.047 of 5 stars
$3.35
-7.0%
$13.25
+296.1%
-45.6%$438.73MN/A-1.63234Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
TARS
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals
1.7501 of 5 stars
$49.08
-0.7%
N/A+152.8%$1.87B$83.37M-10.9650Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
IMCR
Immunocore
2.9264 of 5 stars
$34.64
-0.1%
N/A-32.6%$1.73B$296.31M-36.46497Gap Down
BCRX
BioCryst Pharmaceuticals
4.2114 of 5 stars
$8.19
+5.3%
N/A+36.8%$1.70B$331.41M-13.43530Short Interest ↓
NVAX
Novavax
3.7314 of 5 stars
$9.01
+1.1%
N/A+25.6%$1.44B$983.71M-3.261,543Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
VIR
Vir Biotechnology
3.2556 of 5 stars
$9.87
+2.8%
N/A-16.9%$1.36B$62.04M-2.52587Upcoming Earnings
MESO
Mesoblast
1.5901 of 5 stars
$9.74
+6.0%
N/A+298.4%$1.11B$5.90M0.0080News Coverage
Gap Down
IMTX
Immatics
2.3143 of 5 stars
$9.04
-2.3%
N/A-3.9%$1.08B$58.44M-10.16260Short Interest ↓
CRGX
CARGO Therapeutics
1.7566 of 5 stars
$21.98
-1.7%
N/A+8.5%$1.01BN/A-0.43116Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
CGEM
Cullinan Therapeutics
2.1817 of 5 stars
$17.27
+7.8%
N/A+54.5%$1.00B$18.94M-6.0830Positive News
High Trading Volume
LENZ
LENZ Therapeutics
0.6755 of 5 stars
$35.75
+1.9%
N/AN/A$983.16MN/A0.00N/A

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This page (NYSE:PRME) was last updated on 11/17/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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