Head-To-Head Contrast: Petros Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:PTPI) versus Protagonist Therapeutics (NASDAQ:PTGX)

Protagonist Therapeutics (NASDAQ:PTGX) and Petros Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:PTPI) are both medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings and risk.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

98.6% of Protagonist Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.3% of Petros Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. 5.4% of Protagonist Therapeutics shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 36.4% of Petros Pharmaceuticals shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility and Risk

Protagonist Therapeutics has a beta of 2.17, meaning that its stock price is 117% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Petros Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 2.12, meaning that its stock price is 112% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Protagonist Therapeutics and Petros Pharmaceuticals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Protagonist Therapeutics	N/A	39.06%	35.19%
Petros Pharmaceuticals	N/A	-95.40%	-27.43%

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings for Protagonist Therapeutics and Petros Pharmaceuticals, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Protagonist Therapeutics	0	0	5	1	3.17
Petros Pharmaceuticals	0	0	1	0	3.00

Protagonist Therapeutics currently has a consensus target price of $52.83, suggesting a potential upside of 9.09%. Petros Pharmaceuticals has a consensus target price of $4.00, suggesting a potential upside of 952.08%. Given Petros Pharmaceuticals’ higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Petros Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than Protagonist Therapeutics.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Protagonist Therapeutics and Petros Pharmaceuticals”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Protagonist Therapeutics	$319.12 million	8.90	-$78.96 million	$2.44	19.85
Petros Pharmaceuticals	$5.82 million	0.63	-$8.16 million	($6.54)	-0.06

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

Summary

Protagonist Therapeutics beats Petros Pharmaceuticals on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Protagonist Therapeutics

Protagonist Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, develops peptide-based drugs for hematology and blood disorders, and inflammatory and immunomodulatory diseases. It is developing Rusfertide (PTG-300), an injectable hepcidin mimetic that completed phase 2 clinical trials for the treatment of polycythemia vera and other blood disorders; and JNJ-2113, an orally delivered investigational drug to block biological pathways that completed phase 2b clinical trials for the treatment of moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis; and PN-943, an orally delivered, gut-restricted alpha 4 beta 7 specific integrin antagonist completed a phase 2 clinical trials in patients with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis. The company has a license and collaboration agreement with Takeda to commercialize rusfertide; and JNJ Innovative Medicines to co-develop Interleukin-23 receptor antagonist compound JNJ-2113. Protagonist Therapeutics, Inc. was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in Newark, California.

About Petros Pharmaceuticals

Petros Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a pharmaceutical company, focuses on men's health therapeutics in the United States and internationally. It operates through two segments, Prescription Medications and Medical Devices. The company engages in the commercialization and development of Stendra, an PDE-5 inhibitor prescription medication for the treatment of erectile dysfunction (ED). It also develops and commercializes H100, a novel and patented topical formulation candidate for the treatment of acute Peyronie's disease. The company offers men's health products, including vacuum erection devices, penile injections, PreBoost, VenoSeal, and urinary tract infection tests for the treatment of erectile dysfunction. Petros Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is based in New York, New York.