EAH vs. CEL, VLG, ANCR, AGY, BXP, APH, POLB, SPEC, DXRX, and BVC
Should you be buying ECO Animal Health Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ECO Animal Health Group include Celadon Pharmaceuticals (CEL), Venture Life Group (VLG), Animalcare Group (ANCR), Allergy Therapeutics (AGY), Beximco Pharmaceuticals (BXP), Alliance Pharma (APH), Poolbeg Pharma (POLB), INSPECS Group (SPEC), Diaceutics (DXRX), and BATM Advanced Communications (BVC). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
ECO Animal Health Group (LON:EAH) and Celadon Pharmaceuticals (LON:CEL) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, valuation and community ranking.
ECO Animal Health Group has a beta of 0.07, meaning that its share price is 93% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Celadon Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.04, meaning that its share price is 96% less volatile than the S&P 500.
ECO Animal Health Group received 289 more outperform votes than Celadon Pharmaceuticals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Celadon Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 75.71% of users gave ECO Animal Health Group an outperform vote.
Celadon Pharmaceuticals has a net margin of 0.00% compared to ECO Animal Health Group's net margin of -1.83%. ECO Animal Health Group's return on equity of -0.24% beat Celadon Pharmaceuticals' return on equity.
88.2% of ECO Animal Health Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.5% of Celadon Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.6% of ECO Animal Health Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 66.1% of Celadon Pharmaceuticals shares are owned 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.
In the previous week, ECO Animal Health Group had 3 more articles in the media than Celadon Pharmaceuticals. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for ECO Animal Health Group and 0 mentions for Celadon Pharmaceuticals. ECO Animal Health Group's average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat Celadon Pharmaceuticals' score of 0.00 indicating that ECO Animal Health Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Celadon Pharmaceuticals has a consensus price target of GBX 222.50, indicating a potential upside of 117.07%. Given Celadon Pharmaceuticals' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Celadon Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than ECO Animal Health Group.
ECO Animal Health Group has higher revenue and earnings than Celadon Pharmaceuticals. ECO Animal Health Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Celadon Pharmaceuticals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
ECO Animal Health Group beats Celadon Pharmaceuticals on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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