AKBA vs. PBYI, URGN, RAPT, MRNS, WVE, CNTA, ARCT, SPRY, ARQT, and PRTC
Should you be buying Akebia Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Akebia Therapeutics include Puma Biotechnology (PBYI), UroGen Pharma (URGN), RAPT Therapeutics (RAPT), Marinus Pharmaceuticals (MRNS), Wave Life Sciences (WVE), Centessa Pharmaceuticals (CNTA), Arcturus Therapeutics (ARCT), ARS Pharmaceuticals (SPRY), Arcutis Biotherapeutics (ARQT), and PureTech Health (PRTC). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Puma Biotechnology (NASDAQ:PBYI) and Akebia Therapeutics (NASDAQ:AKBA) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, risk, profitability, earnings and media sentiment.
Puma Biotechnology currently has a consensus target price of $7.00, indicating a potential upside of 98.58%. Akebia Therapeutics has a consensus target price of $5.00, indicating a potential upside of 371.70%. Given Puma Biotechnology's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Akebia Therapeutics is more favorable than Puma Biotechnology.
61.3% of Puma Biotechnology shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.9% of Akebia Therapeutics shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.7% of Puma Biotechnology shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.1% of Akebia Therapeutics shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Puma Biotechnology has higher revenue and earnings than Akebia Therapeutics. Akebia Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Puma Biotechnology, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Puma Biotechnology had 2 more articles in the media than Akebia Therapeutics. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Puma Biotechnology and 2 mentions for Akebia Therapeutics. Puma Biotechnology's average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat Akebia Therapeutics' score of 0.12 indicating that Akebia Therapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Puma Biotechnology has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Akebia Therapeutics has a beta of 0.8, indicating that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Puma Biotechnology has a net margin of 6.79% compared to Puma Biotechnology's net margin of -22.99%. Akebia Therapeutics' return on equity of 35.49% beat Puma Biotechnology's return on equity.
Puma Biotechnology received 128 more outperform votes than Akebia Therapeutics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.58% of users gave Puma Biotechnology an outperform vote while only 63.96% of users gave Akebia Therapeutics an outperform vote.
Summary
Puma Biotechnology beats Akebia Therapeutics on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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