Harrow (NASDAQ:HROW – Get Free Report) and Lantheus (NASDAQ:LNTH – Get Free Report) are both healthcare companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership and valuation.
Profitability
This table compares Harrow and Lantheus’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Harrow | -13.51% | -38.00% | -3.37% |
| Lantheus | 17.69% | 28.10% | 14.35% |
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent recommendations for Harrow and Lantheus, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Harrow | 1 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 2.60 |
| Lantheus | 0 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 2.29 |
Insider & Institutional Ownership
72.8% of Harrow shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.1% of Lantheus shares are held by institutional investors. 12.8% of Harrow shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Lantheus shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Harrow and Lantheus”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Harrow | $272.30 million | 4.21 | -$5.14 million | ($1.00) | -30.61 |
| Lantheus | $1.54 billion | 4.22 | $233.56 million | $4.14 | 24.07 |
Lantheus has higher revenue and earnings than Harrow. Harrow is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lantheus, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Risk & Volatility
Harrow has a beta of 0.24, suggesting that its share price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lantheus has a beta of -0.03, suggesting that its share price is 103% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Lantheus beats Harrow on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Harrow
Harrow, Inc. operates as an ophthalmic-focused healthcare company. The company owns ImprimisRx, an ophthalmology outsourcing and pharmaceutical compounding business. The company was formerly known as Imprimis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and changed its name to Harrow Health, Inc. in December 2018. Harrow Health, Inc. was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.
About Lantheus
Lantheus Holdings, Inc. develops, manufactures, and commercializes diagnostic and therapeutic products that assist clinicians in the diagnosis and treatment of heart, cancer, and other diseases worldwide. It provides DEFINITY, an injectable ultrasound enhancing agent used in echocardiography exams; TechneLite, a technetium generator for nuclear medicine procedures; Xenon-133, a radiopharmaceutical gas to assess pulmonary function; Neurolite, an injectable imaging agent to identify the area within the brain where blood flow has been blocked or reduced due to stroke; Cardiolite, an injectable Tc-99m-labeled imaging agent to assess blood flow to the muscle of the heart; and PYLARIFY, an F 18-labelled PSMA-targeted PET imaging agent used for imaging of PSMA positive-lesions in men with prostate cancer. The company also offers Automated Bone Scan Index that calculates the disease burden of prostate cancer by detecting and classifying bone scan tracer uptakes as metastatic or benign lesions using an artificial neural network; RELISTOR for opioid-induced constipation; and aPROMISE, an artificial intelligence medical device software; and PYLARIFY AI, an AI-based medical device software to perform quantitative assessment of PSMA PET/CT images in prostate cancer. In addition, it develops 1095, a PSMA-targeted iodine-131-labeled small molecule; PNT2002, a radiopharmaceutical therapy to treat mCRPC; PNT2003, an SSTR therapy that treats patients with SSTR-positive neuroendocrine tumors; MK-6240, a F 18-labeled PET imaging agent that targets Tau tangles in Alzheimer’s disease; LNTH-1363S, an fibroblast activation protein, alpha targeted, copper-64 labeled PET imaging agent; and flurpiridaz used to assess blood flow to the heart;. It has collaboration agreements with GE Healthcare; NanoMab Technology Limited; Curium; RefleXion Medical, Inc.; POINT; Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc; and Ratio Therapeutics LLC. The company was founded in 1956 and is based in Bedford, Massachusetts.
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