IRON vs. SVRA, AUPH, PRTC, COGT, ARCT, SIGA, WVE, DNTH, MLYS, and YMAB
Should you be buying Disc Medicine stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Disc Medicine include Savara (SVRA), Aurinia Pharmaceuticals (AUPH), PureTech Health (PRTC), Cogent Biosciences (COGT), Arcturus Therapeutics (ARCT), SIGA Technologies (SIGA), Wave Life Sciences (WVE), Dianthus Therapeutics (DNTH), Mineralys Therapeutics (MLYS), and Y-mAbs Therapeutics (YMAB). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Disc Medicine (NASDAQ:IRON) and Savara (NASDAQ:SVRA) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings and profitability.
83.7% of Disc Medicine shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.9% of Savara shares are held by institutional investors. 4.7% of Disc Medicine shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.6% of Savara shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Disc Medicine has a beta of 0.44, meaning that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Savara has a beta of 0.73, meaning that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Disc Medicine presently has a consensus target price of $57.29, suggesting a potential upside of 95.25%. Savara has a consensus target price of $8.20, suggesting a potential upside of 64.33%. Given Disc Medicine's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Disc Medicine is more favorable than Savara.
In the previous week, Savara had 8 more articles in the media than Disc Medicine. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Savara and 1 mentions for Disc Medicine. Savara's average media sentiment score of 0.08 beat Disc Medicine's score of 0.00 indicating that Savara is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Savara is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Disc Medicine, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Disc Medicine's return on equity of -23.37% beat Savara's return on equity.
Savara received 262 more outperform votes than Disc Medicine when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.88% of users gave Disc Medicine an outperform vote while only 65.82% of users gave Savara an outperform vote.
Summary
Savara beats Disc Medicine on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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