AMRN vs. GBIO, YMAB, HRTX, AUPH, PCRX, SYRE, RCUS, ANIP, KNSA, and AKRO
Should you be buying Amarin stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Amarin include Generation Bio (GBIO), Y-mAbs Therapeutics (YMAB), Heron Therapeutics (HRTX), Aurinia Pharmaceuticals (AUPH), Pacira BioSciences (PCRX), Spyre Therapeutics (SYRE), Arcus Biosciences (RCUS), ANI Pharmaceuticals (ANIP), Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals (KNSA), and Akero Therapeutics (AKRO). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Generation Bio (NASDAQ:GBIO) and Amarin (NASDAQ:AMRN) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, earnings, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Amarin has a net margin of -18.96% compared to Amarin's net margin of -1,696.87%. Generation Bio's return on equity of -9.48% beat Amarin's return on equity.
Generation Bio currently has a consensus target price of $8.00, suggesting a potential upside of 145.40%. Amarin has a consensus target price of $1.08, suggesting a potential upside of 60.97%. Given Amarin's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Generation Bio is more favorable than Amarin.
In the previous week, Generation Bio and Generation Bio both had 2 articles in the media. Amarin's average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat Generation Bio's score of 0.00 indicating that Generation Bio is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Amarin has higher revenue and earnings than Generation Bio. Amarin is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Generation Bio, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Amarin received 804 more outperform votes than Generation Bio when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.45% of users gave Amarin an outperform vote while only 67.86% of users gave Generation Bio an outperform vote.
Generation Bio has a beta of 2.87, meaning that its stock price is 187% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amarin has a beta of 1.98, meaning that its stock price is 98% more volatile than the S&P 500.
95.2% of Generation Bio shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.3% of Amarin shares are held by institutional investors. 21.1% of Generation Bio shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Amarin shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Generation Bio beats Amarin on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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