OCUL vs. AUPH, ARCT, PLRX, LBPH, ALXO, SAGE, PRTC, NRIX, DNTH, and BCYC
Should you be buying Ocular Therapeutix stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ocular Therapeutix include Aurinia Pharmaceuticals (AUPH), Arcturus Therapeutics (ARCT), Pliant Therapeutics (PLRX), Longboard Pharmaceuticals (LBPH), ALX Oncology (ALXO), Sage Therapeutics (SAGE), PureTech Health (PRTC), Nurix Therapeutics (NRIX), Dianthus Therapeutics (DNTH), and Bicycle Therapeutics (BCYC). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Ocular Therapeutix (NASDAQ:OCUL) and Aurinia Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:AUPH) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, earnings and community ranking.
Ocular Therapeutix currently has a consensus price target of $17.60, suggesting a potential upside of 185.25%. Aurinia Pharmaceuticals has a consensus price target of $10.00, suggesting a potential upside of 96.08%. Given Ocular Therapeutix's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Ocular Therapeutix is more favorable than Aurinia Pharmaceuticals.
Ocular Therapeutix has a beta of 1.47, meaning that its stock price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Aurinia Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 1.36, meaning that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
59.2% of Ocular Therapeutix shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.8% of Aurinia Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. 5.5% of Ocular Therapeutix shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of Aurinia Pharmaceuticals shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Aurinia Pharmaceuticals has higher revenue and earnings than Ocular Therapeutix. Aurinia Pharmaceuticals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ocular Therapeutix, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Aurinia Pharmaceuticals received 143 more outperform votes than Ocular Therapeutix when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.07% of users gave Aurinia Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 69.74% of users gave Ocular Therapeutix an outperform vote.
Aurinia Pharmaceuticals has a net margin of -32.69% compared to Ocular Therapeutix's net margin of -138.15%. Aurinia Pharmaceuticals' return on equity of -14.79% beat Ocular Therapeutix's return on equity.
In the previous week, Aurinia Pharmaceuticals had 7 more articles in the media than Ocular Therapeutix. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Aurinia Pharmaceuticals and 4 mentions for Ocular Therapeutix. Aurinia Pharmaceuticals' average media sentiment score of 0.48 beat Ocular Therapeutix's score of 0.21 indicating that Aurinia Pharmaceuticals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Aurinia Pharmaceuticals beats Ocular Therapeutix on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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