EGRX vs. ZIOP, OMER, PBYI, VACC, CAPR, GALT, OGI, ATOS, IVA, and VERU
Should you be buying Eagle Pharmaceuticals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eagle Pharmaceuticals include ZIOPHARM Oncology (ZIOP), Omeros (OMER), Puma Biotechnology (PBYI), Vaccitech (VACC), Capricor Therapeutics (CAPR), Galectin Therapeutics (GALT), Organigram (OGI), Atossa Therapeutics (ATOS), Inventiva (IVA), and Veru (VERU). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
ZIOPHARM Oncology (NASDAQ:ZIOP) and Eagle Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:EGRX) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and valuation.
Eagle Pharmaceuticals has higher revenue and earnings than ZIOPHARM Oncology. ZIOPHARM Oncology is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Eagle Pharmaceuticals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Eagle Pharmaceuticals received 22 more outperform votes than ZIOPHARM Oncology when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.55% of users gave Eagle Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 54.62% of users gave ZIOPHARM Oncology an outperform vote.
ZIOPHARM Oncology has a beta of 1.71, suggesting that its stock price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eagle Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.46, suggesting that its stock price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Eagle Pharmaceuticals has a consensus price target of $17.00, suggesting a potential upside of 339.28%.
51.0% of ZIOPHARM Oncology shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.4% of Eagle Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. 5.2% of ZIOPHARM Oncology shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 28.9% of Eagle Pharmaceuticals shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
ZIOPHARM Oncology's return on equity of 0.00% beat Eagle Pharmaceuticals' return on equity.
In the previous week, Eagle Pharmaceuticals had 5 more articles in the media than ZIOPHARM Oncology. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Eagle Pharmaceuticals and 0 mentions for ZIOPHARM Oncology. ZIOPHARM Oncology's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Eagle Pharmaceuticals' score of 0.00 indicating that Eagle Pharmaceuticals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Eagle Pharmaceuticals beats ZIOPHARM Oncology on 12 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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