PTI vs. SPRB, DRRX, CASI, DARE, ENLV, JAN, APRE, THTX, FBIO, and VIRX
Should you be buying Proteostasis Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Proteostasis Therapeutics include Spruce Biosciences (SPRB), DURECT (DRRX), CASI Pharmaceuticals (CASI), Daré Bioscience (DARE), Enlivex Therapeutics (ENLV), JanOne (JAN), Aprea Therapeutics (APRE), Theratechnologies (THTX), Fortress Biotech (FBIO), and Viracta Therapeutics (VIRX). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Proteostasis Therapeutics (NASDAQ:PTI) and Spruce Biosciences (NASDAQ:SPRB) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, valuation, risk and media sentiment.
Spruce Biosciences has a consensus target price of $5.67, indicating a potential upside of 661.24%. Given Spruce Biosciences' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Spruce Biosciences is more favorable than Proteostasis Therapeutics.
Proteostasis Therapeutics has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Spruce Biosciences has a beta of 2.5, suggesting that its stock price is 150% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Spruce Biosciences has higher revenue and earnings than Proteostasis Therapeutics. Spruce Biosciences is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Proteostasis Therapeutics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Spruce Biosciences had 2 more articles in the media than Proteostasis Therapeutics. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Spruce Biosciences and 0 mentions for Proteostasis Therapeutics. Spruce Biosciences' average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Proteostasis Therapeutics' score of 0.00 indicating that Spruce Biosciences is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Proteostasis Therapeutics received 279 more outperform votes than Spruce Biosciences when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.41% of users gave Spruce Biosciences an outperform vote while only 59.03% of users gave Proteostasis Therapeutics an outperform vote.
Proteostasis Therapeutics has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Spruce Biosciences' net margin of -474.96%. Spruce Biosciences' return on equity of -52.31% beat Proteostasis Therapeutics' return on equity.
16.6% of Proteostasis Therapeutics shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.7% of Spruce Biosciences shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.8% of Proteostasis Therapeutics shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.1% of Spruce Biosciences shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Spruce Biosciences beats Proteostasis Therapeutics on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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