RDHL vs. MEIP, MGTA, BTAI, INAB, CUE, PMN, LIAN, NKGN, ICCC, and VYNE
Should you be buying RedHill Biopharma stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of RedHill Biopharma include MEI Pharma (MEIP), Magenta Therapeutics (MGTA), BioXcel Therapeutics (BTAI), IN8bio (INAB), Cue Biopharma (CUE), ProMIS Neurosciences (PMN), LianBio (LIAN), NKGen Biotech (NKGN), ImmuCell (ICCC), and VYNE Therapeutics (VYNE). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
RedHill Biopharma (NASDAQ:RDHL) and MEI Pharma (NASDAQ:MEIP) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, dividends and risk.
RedHill Biopharma has a beta of 3.64, indicating that its stock price is 264% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MEI Pharma has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
RedHill Biopharma received 42 more outperform votes than MEI Pharma when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.99% of users gave RedHill Biopharma an outperform vote while only 61.11% of users gave MEI Pharma an outperform vote.
RedHill Biopharma has higher earnings, but lower revenue than MEI Pharma.
MEI Pharma has a consensus target price of $7.00, indicating a potential upside of 94.99%. Given MEI Pharma's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe MEI Pharma is more favorable than RedHill Biopharma.
In the previous week, MEI Pharma had 7 more articles in the media than RedHill Biopharma. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for MEI Pharma and 5 mentions for RedHill Biopharma. RedHill Biopharma's average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat MEI Pharma's score of -0.15 indicating that RedHill Biopharma is being referred to more favorably in the media.
MEI Pharma's return on equity of 48.32% beat RedHill Biopharma's return on equity.
7.2% of RedHill Biopharma shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.4% of MEI Pharma shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.8% of RedHill Biopharma shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.9% of MEI Pharma shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
RedHill Biopharma beats MEI Pharma on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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