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ASRT vs. TVRD, LFCR, ZYBT, ESPR, DBVT, MDWD, YMAB, TIL, SLRN, and IMAB

Should you be buying Assertio stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Assertio include Cara Therapeutics (TVRD), Lifecore Biomedical (LFCR), Zhengye Biotechnology (ZYBT), Esperion Therapeutics (ESPR), DBV Technologies (DBVT), MediWound (MDWD), Y-mAbs Therapeutics (YMAB), Instil Bio (TIL), Acelyrin (SLRN), and I-Mab (IMAB). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

Assertio vs.

Cara Therapeutics (NASDAQ:TVRD) and Assertio (NASDAQ:ASRT) are both small-cap manufacturing companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk and valuation.

Cara Therapeutics presently has a consensus target price of $65.00, indicating a potential upside of 149.52%. Assertio has a consensus target price of $2.75, indicating a potential upside of 316.10%. Given Assertio's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Assertio is more favorable than Cara Therapeutics.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Cara Therapeutics
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Assertio
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

44.7% of Cara Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.0% of Assertio shares are held by institutional investors. 3.1% of Cara Therapeutics shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of Assertio shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Assertio received 113 more outperform votes than Cara Therapeutics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.69% of users gave Assertio an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave Cara Therapeutics an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Cara TherapeuticsOutperform Votes
1
50.00%
Underperform Votes
1
50.00%
AssertioOutperform Votes
114
59.69%
Underperform Votes
77
40.31%

In the previous week, Cara Therapeutics had 1 more articles in the media than Assertio. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Cara Therapeutics and 1 mentions for Assertio. Assertio's average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat Cara Therapeutics' score of 0.00 indicating that Assertio is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Cara Therapeutics Neutral
Assertio Very Positive

Cara Therapeutics has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Assertio's net margin of -54.46%. Assertio's return on equity of 3.79% beat Cara Therapeutics' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Cara TherapeuticsN/A N/A N/A
Assertio -54.46%3.79%1.81%

Cara Therapeutics has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Assertio.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Cara TherapeuticsN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Assertio$119.00M0.53-$331.94M-$0.32-2.07

Cara Therapeutics has a beta of 0.25, suggesting that its share price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Assertio has a beta of 0.29, suggesting that its share price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Assertio beats Cara Therapeutics on 11 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

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ASRT vs. The Competition

MetricAssertioPharmaceutical IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$63.30M$6.83B$5.57B$8.67B
Dividend YieldN/A2.50%5.27%4.19%
P/E Ratio-0.918.7927.2020.17
Price / Sales0.53263.51412.92161.94
Price / Cash1.1265.8538.2534.64
Price / Book0.456.677.114.72
Net Income-$331.94M$143.49M$3.23B$247.80M
7 Day Performance-0.86%5.15%3.77%2.76%
1 Month Performance8.11%15.43%13.33%9.71%
1 Year Performance-38.81%6.02%32.03%14.51%

Assertio Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ASRT
Assertio
1.4415 of 5 stars
$0.66
+0.4%
$2.75
+316.1%
-39.9%$63.30M$119.00M-0.9120Positive News
TVRD
Cara Therapeutics
N/A$26.90
-5.6%
$65.00
+141.6%
N/A$251.81MN/A0.0080Gap Up
High Trading Volume
LFCR
Lifecore Biomedical
1.6309 of 5 stars
$6.78
-1.0%
$8.00
+18.0%
+16.3%$251.03M$130.31M-12.11690
ZYBT
Zhengye Biotechnology
N/A$5.16
-12.7%
N/AN/A$243.38M$189.75M0.00278Gap Up
ESPR
Esperion Therapeutics
4.081 of 5 stars
$1.20
-1.6%
$6.25
+420.8%
-58.1%$237.84M$259.57M-1.88200Options Volume
DBVT
DBV Technologies
3.1141 of 5 stars
$8.68
-4.9%
$14.75
+69.9%
+73.1%$237.75M$15.73M-1.9380Positive News
Gap Up
MDWD
MediWound
2.0218 of 5 stars
$21.46
-0.6%
$31.80
+48.2%
+29.3%$231.94M$19.21M-7.4080Positive News
YMAB
Y-mAbs Therapeutics
3.767 of 5 stars
$5.08
-3.6%
$15.60
+207.1%
-57.7%$230.04M$88.66M-9.41150Positive News
Analyst Revision
TIL
Instil Bio
3.1489 of 5 stars
$35.07
+6.6%
$119.00
+239.3%
+258.7%$230.02MN/A-3.03410Gap Up
High Trading Volume
SLRN
Acelyrin
2.9512 of 5 stars
$2.27
flat
$9.60
+322.9%
N/A$229.17MN/A-0.92135
IMAB
I-Mab
2.9346 of 5 stars
$2.80
+14.3%
$5.50
+96.4%
+42.3%$228.65M$3.27M0.00380Positive News
Gap Up
High Trading Volume

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This page (NASDAQ:ASRT) was last updated on 6/11/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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