HRMY vs. TARO, XNCR, AIMT, RARX, OPK, JAZZ, BPMC, VKTX, IONS, and OGN
Should you be buying Harmony Biosciences stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Harmony Biosciences include Taro Pharmaceutical Industries (TARO), Xencor (XNCR), Aimmune Therapeutics (AIMT), Ra Pharmaceuticals (RARX), OPKO Health (OPK), Jazz Pharmaceuticals (JAZZ), Blueprint Medicines (BPMC), Viking Therapeutics (VKTX), Ionis Pharmaceuticals (IONS), and Organon & Co. (OGN). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Harmony Biosciences (NASDAQ:HRMY) and Taro Pharmaceutical Industries (NYSE:TARO) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, risk, valuation, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings and institutional ownership.
86.2% of Harmony Biosciences shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.4% of Taro Pharmaceutical Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 30.8% of Harmony Biosciences shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 13.8% of Taro Pharmaceutical Industries shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Harmony Biosciences has a net margin of 22.30% compared to Taro Pharmaceutical Industries' net margin of 8.56%. Harmony Biosciences' return on equity of 28.26% beat Taro Pharmaceutical Industries' return on equity.
Taro Pharmaceutical Industries received 251 more outperform votes than Harmony Biosciences when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.13% of users gave Taro Pharmaceutical Industries an outperform vote while only 60.29% of users gave Harmony Biosciences an outperform vote.
Harmony Biosciences presently has a consensus price target of $40.63, suggesting a potential upside of 33.86%. Taro Pharmaceutical Industries has a consensus price target of $43.00, suggesting a potential upside of 0.35%. Given Harmony Biosciences' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Harmony Biosciences is more favorable than Taro Pharmaceutical Industries.
Harmony Biosciences has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Taro Pharmaceutical Industries. Harmony Biosciences is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Taro Pharmaceutical Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Harmony Biosciences has a beta of 0.72, meaning that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Taro Pharmaceutical Industries has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Harmony Biosciences had 4 more articles in the media than Taro Pharmaceutical Industries. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Harmony Biosciences and 1 mentions for Taro Pharmaceutical Industries. Harmony Biosciences' average media sentiment score of 1.33 beat Taro Pharmaceutical Industries' score of 0.00 indicating that Harmony Biosciences is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Harmony Biosciences beats Taro Pharmaceutical Industries on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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