ERAS vs. BDTX, MREO, RANI, TERN, HROW, NATR, ADCT, AMRN, ANRO, and PGEN
Should you be buying Erasca stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Erasca include Black Diamond Therapeutics (BDTX), Mereo BioPharma Group (MREO), Rani Therapeutics (RANI), Terns Pharmaceuticals (TERN), Harrow (HROW), Nature's Sunshine Products (NATR), ADC Therapeutics (ADCT), Amarin (AMRN), Alto Neuroscience (ANRO), and Precigen (PGEN). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Black Diamond Therapeutics (NASDAQ:BDTX) and Erasca (NASDAQ:ERAS) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability and community ranking.
Black Diamond Therapeutics presently has a consensus target price of $12.25, suggesting a potential upside of 100.49%. Erasca has a consensus target price of $7.83, suggesting a potential upside of 330.40%. Given Black Diamond Therapeutics' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Erasca is more favorable than Black Diamond Therapeutics.
Black Diamond Therapeutics received 22 more outperform votes than Erasca when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.33% of users gave Black Diamond Therapeutics an outperform vote while only 61.54% of users gave Erasca an outperform vote.
95.5% of Black Diamond Therapeutics shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.8% of Erasca shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.9% of Black Diamond Therapeutics shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 29.8% of Erasca shares are owned 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.
Black Diamond Therapeutics has a beta of 2.56, suggesting that its stock price is 156% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Erasca has a beta of 1.06, suggesting that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Black Diamond Therapeutics and Black Diamond Therapeutics both had 6 articles in the media. Erasca's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Black Diamond Therapeutics' score of 0.04 indicating that Black Diamond Therapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Black Diamond Therapeutics' return on equity of -35.60% beat Erasca's return on equity.
Black Diamond Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Erasca, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Black Diamond Therapeutics beats Erasca on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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