EWTX vs. KURA, ZGNX, XENT, ARCT, RNA, BPMC, VKTX, IONS, SMMT, and CYTK
Should you be buying Edgewise Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Edgewise Therapeutics include Kura Oncology (KURA), Zogenix (ZGNX), Intersect ENT (XENT), Arcturus Therapeutics (ARCT), Avidity Biosciences (RNA), Blueprint Medicines (BPMC), Viking Therapeutics (VKTX), Ionis Pharmaceuticals (IONS), Summit Therapeutics (SMMT), and Cytokinetics (CYTK). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Edgewise Therapeutics (NASDAQ:EWTX) and Kura Oncology (NASDAQ:KURA) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, valuation and earnings.
Edgewise Therapeutics presently has a consensus target price of $31.20, suggesting a potential upside of 76.67%. Kura Oncology has a consensus target price of $27.94, suggesting a potential upside of 28.39%. Given Edgewise Therapeutics' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Edgewise Therapeutics is more favorable than Kura Oncology.
Edgewise Therapeutics has a beta of 0.13, suggesting that its share price is 87% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kura Oncology has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Kura Oncology had 2 more articles in the media than Edgewise Therapeutics. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Kura Oncology and 1 mentions for Edgewise Therapeutics. Edgewise Therapeutics' average media sentiment score of 1.80 beat Kura Oncology's score of 1.16 indicating that Edgewise Therapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Edgewise Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kura Oncology, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Edgewise Therapeutics' return on equity of -29.09% beat Kura Oncology's return on equity.
Kura Oncology received 383 more outperform votes than Edgewise Therapeutics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.01% of users gave Kura Oncology an outperform vote while only 62.50% of users gave Edgewise Therapeutics an outperform vote.
Summary
Edgewise Therapeutics beats Kura Oncology on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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