VLG vs. EAH, CEL, PXS, ANCR, AGY, BXP, APH, POLB, SPEC, and ETX
Should you be buying Venture Life Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Venture Life Group include ECO Animal Health Group (EAH), Celadon Pharmaceuticals (CEL), Provexis (PXS), Animalcare Group (ANCR), Allergy Therapeutics (AGY), Beximco Pharmaceuticals (BXP), Alliance Pharma (APH), Poolbeg Pharma (POLB), INSPECS Group (SPEC), and e-therapeutics (ETX). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Venture Life Group (LON:VLG) and ECO Animal Health Group (LON:EAH) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, risk, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends and analyst recommendations.
ECO Animal Health Group received 136 more outperform votes than Venture Life Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.65% of users gave ECO Animal Health Group an outperform vote while only 72.90% of users gave Venture Life Group an outperform vote.
Venture Life Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than ECO Animal Health Group. ECO Animal Health Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Venture Life Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Venture Life Group has a net margin of -1.56% compared to ECO Animal Health Group's net margin of -1.83%. ECO Animal Health Group's return on equity of -0.24% beat Venture Life Group's return on equity.
Venture Life Group has a beta of 0.27, suggesting that its share price is 73% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ECO Animal Health Group has a beta of 0.07, suggesting that its share price is 93% less volatile than the S&P 500.
52.9% of Venture Life Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.9% of ECO Animal Health Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.5% of Venture Life Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 17.0% of ECO Animal Health Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Venture Life Group had 13 more articles in the media than ECO Animal Health Group. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Venture Life Group and 1 mentions for ECO Animal Health Group. ECO Animal Health Group's average media sentiment score of 0.35 beat Venture Life Group's score of 0.15 indicating that ECO Animal Health Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Venture Life Group and ECO Animal Health Group tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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