RIGL vs. MACK, VSTM, RGLS, VNDA, EBS, XOMA, LXRX, ZVRA, OGI, and TRVI
Should you be buying Rigel Pharmaceuticals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rigel Pharmaceuticals include Merrimack Pharmaceuticals (MACK), Verastem (VSTM), Regulus Therapeutics (RGLS), Vanda Pharmaceuticals (VNDA), Emergent BioSolutions (EBS), XOMA (XOMA), Lexicon Pharmaceuticals (LXRX), Zevra Therapeutics (ZVRA), Organigram (OGI), and Trevi Therapeutics (TRVI). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Merrimack Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:MACK) and Rigel Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:RIGL) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, dividends and media sentiment.
Merrimack Pharmaceuticals has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Merrimack Pharmaceuticals' net margin of -21.47%. Merrimack Pharmaceuticals' return on equity of 0.00% beat Rigel Pharmaceuticals' return on equity.
Rigel Pharmaceuticals has a consensus target price of $5.81, suggesting a potential upside of 433.26%. Given Merrimack Pharmaceuticals' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Rigel Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than Merrimack Pharmaceuticals.
64.0% of Merrimack Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.2% of Rigel Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. 28.9% of Merrimack Pharmaceuticals shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.4% of Rigel Pharmaceuticals shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Merrimack Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 1.43, meaning that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rigel Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Rigel Pharmaceuticals received 50 more outperform votes than Merrimack Pharmaceuticals when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.81% of users gave Rigel Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 67.00% of users gave Merrimack Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote.
Merrimack Pharmaceuticals has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Rigel Pharmaceuticals. Merrimack Pharmaceuticals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rigel Pharmaceuticals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Merrimack Pharmaceuticals had 2 more articles in the media than Rigel Pharmaceuticals. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Merrimack Pharmaceuticals and 0 mentions for Rigel Pharmaceuticals. Rigel Pharmaceuticals' average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat Merrimack Pharmaceuticals' score of 0.00 indicating that Merrimack Pharmaceuticals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Merrimack Pharmaceuticals and Rigel Pharmaceuticals tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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