FARN vs. ERGO, OXB, SLN, HZD, PRTC, VRP, AVCT, ARIX, CIR, and 4BB
Should you be buying Faron Pharmaceuticals Oy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Faron Pharmaceuticals Oy include Ergomed (ERGO), Oxford Biomedica (OXB), Silence Therapeutics (SLN), Horizon Discovery Group plc (HZD.L) (HZD), PureTech Health (PRTC), Verona Pharma plc (VRP.L) (VRP), Avacta Group (AVCT), Arix Bioscience (ARIX), Circassia Group (CIR), and 4basebio (4BB). These companies are all part of the "biotechnology" industry.
Faron Pharmaceuticals Oy vs. Its Competitors
Faron Pharmaceuticals Oy (LON:FARN) and Ergomed (LON:ERGO) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends and risk.
Faron Pharmaceuticals Oy has a beta of 0.36, suggesting that its stock price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ergomed has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
2.9% of Faron Pharmaceuticals Oy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.1% of Ergomed shares are held by institutional investors. 4.1% of Faron Pharmaceuticals Oy shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 18.2% of Ergomed shares are held by 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.
Ergomed has a net margin of 9.87% compared to Faron Pharmaceuticals Oy's net margin of 0.00%. Ergomed's return on equity of 18.08% beat Faron Pharmaceuticals Oy's return on equity.
In the previous week, Faron Pharmaceuticals Oy had 2 more articles in the media than Ergomed. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Faron Pharmaceuticals Oy and 0 mentions for Ergomed. Faron Pharmaceuticals Oy's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Ergomed's score of 0.00 indicating that Faron Pharmaceuticals Oy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ergomed has higher revenue and earnings than Faron Pharmaceuticals Oy. Faron Pharmaceuticals Oy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ergomed, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Ergomed beats Faron Pharmaceuticals Oy on 10 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:FARN) was last updated on 9/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
