MIST vs. ANIX, PRPH, ONCY, ACRS, SPRO, ETON, CLSD, CMRX, QTTB, and BRNS
Should you be buying Milestone Pharmaceuticals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Milestone Pharmaceuticals include Anixa Biosciences (ANIX), ProPhase Labs (PRPH), Oncolytics Biotech (ONCY), Aclaris Therapeutics (ACRS), Spero Therapeutics (SPRO), Eton Pharmaceuticals (ETON), Clearside Biomedical (CLSD), Chimerix (CMRX), Q32 Bio (QTTB), and Barinthus Biotherapeutics (BRNS). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Milestone Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:MIST) and Anixa Biosciences (NASDAQ:ANIX) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.
86.2% of Milestone Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.1% of Anixa Biosciences shares are held by institutional investors. 10.4% of Milestone Pharmaceuticals shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 22.6% of Anixa Biosciences shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Anixa Biosciences had 6 more articles in the media than Milestone Pharmaceuticals. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Anixa Biosciences and 0 mentions for Milestone Pharmaceuticals. Milestone Pharmaceuticals' average media sentiment score of 1.61 beat Anixa Biosciences' score of -0.63 indicating that Milestone Pharmaceuticals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Milestone Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 1.77, indicating that its share price is 77% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Anixa Biosciences has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Milestone Pharmaceuticals received 57 more outperform votes than Anixa Biosciences when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.57% of users gave Milestone Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 64.29% of users gave Anixa Biosciences an outperform vote.
Anixa Biosciences has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Milestone Pharmaceuticals. Anixa Biosciences is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Milestone Pharmaceuticals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Milestone Pharmaceuticals currently has a consensus price target of $10.75, indicating a potential upside of 532.35%. Anixa Biosciences has a consensus price target of $12.00, indicating a potential upside of 318.12%. Given Milestone Pharmaceuticals' higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Milestone Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than Anixa Biosciences.
Anixa Biosciences' return on equity of -44.09% beat Milestone Pharmaceuticals' return on equity.
Summary
Milestone Pharmaceuticals beats Anixa Biosciences on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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