Contrasting Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:EPRX) and Bayer Aktiengesellschaft (OTCMKTS:BAYRY)

Bayer Aktiengesellschaft (OTCMKTS:BAYRY) and Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:EPRX) are both medical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, valuation and profitability.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for Bayer Aktiengesellschaft and Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Bayer Aktiengesellschaft	1	5	0	0	1.83
Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals	0	0	1	2	3.67

Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals has a consensus price target of $9.00, indicating a potential upside of 166.27%. Given Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than Bayer Aktiengesellschaft.

Profitability

This table compares Bayer Aktiengesellschaft and Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Bayer Aktiengesellschaft	-2.02%	16.90%	4.94%
Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals	N/A	-219.64%	-96.00%

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Bayer Aktiengesellschaft and Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Bayer Aktiengesellschaft	$51.55 billion	N/A	-$3.18 billion	($0.26)	-20.12
Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals	N/A	N/A	-$28.22 million	($0.72)	-4.69

Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Bayer Aktiengesellschaft. Bayer Aktiengesellschaft is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals beats Bayer Aktiengesellschaft on 7 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Bayer Aktiengesellschaft

Bayer Aktiengesellschaft, together its subsidiaries, operates as a life science company worldwide. It operates through Pharmaceuticals, Consumer Health, and Crop Science segments. The Pharmaceuticals segment offers prescription products primarily for cardiology and women’s health care; specialty therapeutics in the areas of oncology, hematology, and ophthalmology; and diagnostic imaging equipment and digital solutions, and contrast agents, as well as cell and gene therapy. The Consumer Health segment markets nonprescription over-the-counter medicines for self-medication and self-care; and solutions for nutritional supplements, allergy, cough and cold, dermatology, pain and cardiovascular risk prevention, and digestive health. This segment also provides breeding, propagation, and production/processing of seeds, including seed dressing. The company has a collaboration with Acuitas Therapeutics, Inc. to strengthen gene editing programs; Peking University in the area of basic pharmaceutical research; the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute in the development of the compound emodepside for the treatment of infection with soil-transmitted helminths; bit.bio Ltd. for the discovery and manufacture of regulatory T cells for use in creating therapeutics; Hologic, Inc. in the field of contrastenhanced-mammography solutions to improve diagnostic imaging for the detection of breast cancer; and Twist Bioscience Corporation centering around the research and development of antibody-based pharmaceuticals, as well as with CrossBay Medical Inc. It distributes its products through wholesalers, pharmacies and pharmacy chains, supermarkets, online and other retailers, and hospitals, as well as directly to farmers. The company has collaboration with Thermo Fisher Scientific. Bayer Aktiengesellschaft was founded in 1863 and is based in Leverkusen, Germany.

About Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals

Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals Inc. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company. It focused on the development of locally delivered, extended-release products that have the potential to address therapeutic areas with high unmet medical need. Th company’s lead product candidate includes EP-104IAR, for the treatment of pain due to osteoarthritis of the knee. Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals Inc. is based in VICTORIA, BC.