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PRME vs. XERS, NTLA, EOLS, AVDL, CRON, PRAX, OCS, CDXC, NUVB, and ABCL

Should you be buying Prime Medicine stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Prime Medicine include Xeris Biopharma (XERS), Intellia Therapeutics (NTLA), Evolus (EOLS), Avadel Pharmaceuticals (AVDL), Cronos Group (CRON), Praxis Precision Medicines (PRAX), Oculis (OCS), ChromaDex (CDXC), Nuvation Bio (NUVB), and AbCellera Biologics (ABCL). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

Prime Medicine vs.

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

Xeris Biopharma has higher revenue and earnings than Prime Medicine. Xeris Biopharma 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
Prime Medicine$2.98M58.04-$198.13M-$1.65-0.80
Xeris Biopharma$203.07M3.32-$62.26M-$0.38-11.53

Prime Medicine presently has a consensus target price of $13.38, suggesting a potential upside of 913.26%. Xeris Biopharma has a consensus target price of $6.10, suggesting a potential upside of 39.27%. Given Prime Medicine's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Prime Medicine is more favorable than Xeris Biopharma.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Prime Medicine
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.11
Xeris Biopharma
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.80

In the previous week, Xeris Biopharma had 2 more articles in the media than Prime Medicine. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Xeris Biopharma and 2 mentions for Prime Medicine. Xeris Biopharma's average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat Prime Medicine's score of 0.77 indicating that Xeris Biopharma is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Prime Medicine
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Xeris Biopharma
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Prime Medicine has a beta of 1.88, meaning that its share price is 88% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Xeris Biopharma has a beta of 1.37, meaning that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Xeris Biopharma received 119 more outperform votes than Prime Medicine when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.00% of users gave Xeris Biopharma an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave Prime Medicine an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Prime MedicineOutperform Votes
28
66.67%
Underperform Votes
14
33.33%
Xeris BiopharmaOutperform Votes
147
70.00%
Underperform Votes
63
30.00%

70.4% of Prime Medicine shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.8% of Xeris Biopharma shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.5% of Prime Medicine shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.6% of Xeris Biopharma shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Prime Medicine has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Xeris Biopharma's net margin of -33.69%. Xeris Biopharma's return on equity of 0.00% beat Prime Medicine's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Prime MedicineN/A -107.87% -74.97%
Xeris Biopharma -33.69%N/A -17.38%

Summary

Prime Medicine beats Xeris Biopharma on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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PRME vs. The Competition

MetricPrime MedicineBiological Products IndustryMedical SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$173.13M$2.90B$5.33B$18.52B
Dividend YieldN/A1.91%5.11%4.22%
P/E Ratio-0.6431.0021.7231.15
Price / Sales58.04441.16376.8825.69
Price / CashN/A168.6838.1517.53
Price / Book0.963.476.474.29
Net Income-$198.13M-$72.06M$3.20B$1.02B
7 Day Performance5.60%3.17%2.86%-0.79%
1 Month Performance-26.26%-16.97%-8.55%-6.88%
1 Year Performance-74.95%-29.07%10.58%1.74%

Prime Medicine Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PRME
Prime Medicine
2.7877 of 5 stars
$1.32
-0.8%
$13.38
+913.3%
-75.7%$174.44M$2.98M-0.64234
XERS
Xeris Biopharma
4.3185 of 5 stars
$4.41
flat
$6.10
+38.3%
+136.8%$678.88M$203.07M-9.80290Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
Positive News
NTLA
Intellia Therapeutics
4.3276 of 5 stars
$6.54
-1.4%
$37.56
+474.2%
-67.9%$677.00M$57.88M-1.20600High Trading Volume
EOLS
Evolus
3.5092 of 5 stars
$10.24
-4.2%
$24.67
+140.9%
-14.0%$651.13M$266.27M-11.25170Analyst Revision
Positive News
Gap Down
AVDL
Avadel Pharmaceuticals
2.2544 of 5 stars
$6.69
-1.6%
$19.88
+197.1%
N/A$646.45M$169.12M-8.4770Analyst Revision
Gap Down
CRON
Cronos Group
1.5759 of 5 stars
$1.68
-1.8%
$3.00
+78.6%
-29.5%$642.65M$117.62M-12.92450
PRAX
Praxis Precision Medicines
2.9287 of 5 stars
$31.53
-3.4%
$123.33
+291.2%
-44.4%$635.74M$8.55M-3.06110
OCS
Oculis
1.9829 of 5 stars
$14.37
-7.3%
$29.50
+105.3%
+49.0%$627.42M$980,000.00-7.452High Trading Volume
CDXC
ChromaDex
2.2758 of 5 stars
N/A$9.03
+∞
N/A$611.50M$99.60M787.29120Analyst Forecast
NUVB
Nuvation Bio
2.4722 of 5 stars
$1.81
+8.7%
$8.75
+384.8%
-29.7%$611.32M$7.87M-0.8360Positive News
High Trading Volume
ABCL
AbCellera Biologics
2.1351 of 5 stars
$2.05
-1.9%
$7.00
+241.5%
-41.9%$610.88M$28.83M-3.36500High Trading Volume
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This page (NYSE:PRME) was last updated on 4/16/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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