PRQR vs. ORIC, SVRA, CYRX, CDMO, IGMS, TRDA, SIGA, YMAB, OLMA, and TVTX
Should you be buying ProQR Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ProQR Therapeutics include ORIC Pharmaceuticals (ORIC), Savara (SVRA), Cryoport (CYRX), Avid Bioservices (CDMO), IGM Biosciences (IGMS), Entrada Therapeutics (TRDA), SIGA Technologies (SIGA), Y-mAbs Therapeutics (YMAB), Olema Pharmaceuticals (OLMA), and Travere Therapeutics (TVTX). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
ORIC Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ORIC) and ProQR Therapeutics (NASDAQ:PRQR) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
ORIC Pharmaceuticals has a net margin of 0.00% compared to ORIC Pharmaceuticals' net margin of -260.75%. ProQR Therapeutics' return on equity of -38.08% beat ORIC Pharmaceuticals' return on equity.
95.1% of ORIC Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.7% of ProQR Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. 5.6% of ORIC Pharmaceuticals shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.4% of ProQR Therapeutics shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
ProQR Therapeutics received 279 more outperform votes than ORIC Pharmaceuticals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.20% of users gave ORIC Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 61.86% of users gave ProQR Therapeutics an outperform vote.
ProQR Therapeutics has higher revenue and earnings than ORIC Pharmaceuticals. ProQR Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ORIC Pharmaceuticals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, ORIC Pharmaceuticals had 2 more articles in the media than ProQR Therapeutics. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for ORIC Pharmaceuticals and 3 mentions for ProQR Therapeutics. ORIC Pharmaceuticals' average media sentiment score of 1.88 beat ProQR Therapeutics' score of 0.94 indicating that ProQR Therapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ORIC Pharmaceuticals presently has a consensus target price of $20.00, indicating a potential upside of 127.01%. ProQR Therapeutics has a consensus target price of $3.38, indicating a potential upside of 83.42%. Given ProQR Therapeutics' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe ORIC Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than ProQR Therapeutics.
ORIC Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ProQR Therapeutics has a beta of 0.3, indicating that its share price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
ORIC Pharmaceuticals beats ProQR Therapeutics on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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