DERM vs. XERS, MGNX, EPIX, RVNC, INZY, CRMD, AQST, ATAI, ENTA, and XBIT
Should you be buying Journey Medical stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Journey Medical include Xeris Biopharma (XERS), MacroGenics (MGNX), ESSA Pharma (EPIX), Revance Therapeutics (RVNC), Inozyme Pharma (INZY), CorMedix (CRMD), Aquestive Therapeutics (AQST), Atai Life Sciences (ATAI), Enanta Pharmaceuticals (ENTA), and XBiotech (XBIT). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Journey Medical (NASDAQ:DERM) and Xeris Biopharma (NASDAQ:XERS) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership and earnings.
Journey Medical presently has a consensus target price of $8.50, indicating a potential upside of 136.11%. Xeris Biopharma has a consensus target price of $4.63, indicating a potential upside of 140.89%. Given Xeris Biopharma's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Xeris Biopharma is more favorable than Journey Medical.
Journey Medical has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Xeris Biopharma. Journey Medical is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Xeris Biopharma, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Journey Medical has a beta of 0.78, meaning that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Xeris Biopharma has a beta of 2.37, meaning that its share price is 137% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Journey Medical had 5 more articles in the media than Xeris Biopharma. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Journey Medical and 1 mentions for Xeris Biopharma. Xeris Biopharma's average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat Journey Medical's score of 0.77 indicating that Xeris Biopharma is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
7.3% of Journey Medical shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.8% of Xeris Biopharma shares are held by institutional investors. 19.4% of Journey Medical shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.6% of Xeris Biopharma shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Xeris Biopharma received 139 more outperform votes than Journey Medical when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Journey Medical an outperform vote while only 69.65% of users gave Xeris Biopharma an outperform vote.
Journey Medical has a net margin of -5.20% compared to Xeris Biopharma's net margin of -37.58%. Journey Medical's return on equity of -32.83% beat Xeris Biopharma's return on equity.
Summary
Xeris Biopharma beats Journey Medical on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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