AVDL vs. HRMY, SUPN, AMRX, GPCR, TARO, PTGX, DVAX, CPRX, ZLAB, and SNDX
Should you be buying Avadel Pharmaceuticals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Avadel Pharmaceuticals include Harmony Biosciences (HRMY), Supernus Pharmaceuticals (SUPN), Amneal Pharmaceuticals (AMRX), Structure Therapeutics (GPCR), Taro Pharmaceutical Industries (TARO), Protagonist Therapeutics (PTGX), Dynavax Technologies (DVAX), Catalyst Pharmaceuticals (CPRX), Zai Lab (ZLAB), and Syndax Pharmaceuticals (SNDX). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Harmony Biosciences (NASDAQ:HRMY) and Avadel Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:AVDL) 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.
Harmony Biosciences has a net margin of 22.16% compared to Harmony Biosciences' net margin of 0.00%. Avadel Pharmaceuticals' return on equity of 27.49% beat Harmony Biosciences' return on equity.
86.2% of Harmony Biosciences shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.2% of Avadel Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. 30.8% of Harmony Biosciences shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of Avadel Pharmaceuticals 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.
Harmony Biosciences currently has a consensus target price of $40.63, suggesting a potential upside of 38.56%. Avadel Pharmaceuticals has a consensus target price of $22.57, suggesting a potential upside of 26.73%. Given Avadel Pharmaceuticals' higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Harmony Biosciences is more favorable than Avadel Pharmaceuticals.
In the previous week, Harmony Biosciences had 5 more articles in the media than Avadel Pharmaceuticals. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Harmony Biosciences and 2 mentions for Avadel Pharmaceuticals. Harmony Biosciences' average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Avadel Pharmaceuticals' score of 0.63 indicating that Avadel Pharmaceuticals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Avadel Pharmaceuticals received 287 more outperform votes than Harmony Biosciences when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.01% of users gave Avadel Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 59.70% of users gave Harmony Biosciences an outperform vote.
Harmony Biosciences has higher revenue and earnings than Avadel Pharmaceuticals. Avadel Pharmaceuticals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Harmony Biosciences, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Harmony Biosciences has a beta of 0.73, meaning that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Avadel Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 1.6, meaning that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Harmony Biosciences beats Avadel Pharmaceuticals on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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