EOLS vs. ADMS, HCM, PBH, CORT, MRUS, BHVN, FOLD, XENE, ARWR, and PTCT
Should you be buying Evolus stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Evolus include Adamas Pharmaceuticals (ADMS), HUTCHMED (HCM), Prestige Consumer Healthcare (PBH), Corcept Therapeutics (CORT), Merus (MRUS), Biohaven (BHVN), Amicus Therapeutics (FOLD), Xenon Pharmaceuticals (XENE), Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals (ARWR), and PTC Therapeutics (PTCT). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Evolus (NASDAQ:EOLS) and Adamas Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ADMS) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and profitability.
Adamas Pharmaceuticals has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Evolus. Evolus is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Adamas Pharmaceuticals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Evolus has a net margin of -27.31% compared to Adamas Pharmaceuticals' net margin of -71.11%.
Evolus presently has a consensus price target of $21.25, suggesting a potential upside of 64.35%. Given Evolus' higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Evolus is more favorable than Adamas Pharmaceuticals.
90.7% of Evolus shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.0% of Adamas Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. 6.1% of Evolus shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 18.9% of Adamas Pharmaceuticals shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Evolus has a beta of 1.47, suggesting that its stock price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Adamas Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 2.82, suggesting that its stock price is 182% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Evolus had 3 more articles in the media than Adamas Pharmaceuticals. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Evolus and 0 mentions for Adamas Pharmaceuticals. Evolus' average media sentiment score of 1.58 beat Adamas Pharmaceuticals' score of 0.00 indicating that Evolus is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Adamas Pharmaceuticals received 60 more outperform votes than Evolus when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.00% of users gave Evolus an outperform vote while only 59.12% of users gave Adamas Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote.
Summary
Evolus beats Adamas Pharmaceuticals on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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