Head to Head Contrast: Prestige Consumer Healthcare (NYSE:PBH) & Oramed Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ORMP)

Prestige Consumer Healthcare (NYSE:PBH) and Oramed Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ORMP) are both medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Prestige Consumer Healthcare and Oramed Pharmaceuticals”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Prestige Consumer Healthcare	$1.14 billion	2.70	$214.60 million	$4.26	14.66
Oramed Pharmaceuticals	$2.00 million	54.13	-$19.06 million	($0.35)	-7.54

Prestige Consumer Healthcare has higher revenue and earnings than Oramed Pharmaceuticals. Oramed Pharmaceuticals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Prestige Consumer Healthcare, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for Prestige Consumer Healthcare and Oramed Pharmaceuticals, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Prestige Consumer Healthcare	1	1	4	0	2.50
Oramed Pharmaceuticals	0	0	0	0	0.00

Prestige Consumer Healthcare presently has a consensus price target of $94.80, indicating a potential upside of 51.83%. Given Prestige Consumer Healthcare’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Prestige Consumer Healthcare is more favorable than Oramed Pharmaceuticals.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

100.0% of Prestige Consumer Healthcare shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.7% of Oramed Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Prestige Consumer Healthcare shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 17.8% of Oramed Pharmaceuticals shares are owned 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.

Profitability

This table compares Prestige Consumer Healthcare and Oramed Pharmaceuticals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Prestige Consumer Healthcare	19.02%	12.69%	6.79%
Oramed Pharmaceuticals	N/A	-19.37%	-18.28%

Risk & Volatility

Prestige Consumer Healthcare has a beta of 0.46, indicating that its share price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Oramed Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 1.69, indicating that its share price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Prestige Consumer Healthcare beats Oramed Pharmaceuticals on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Prestige Consumer Healthcare

Prestige Consumer Healthcare Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, markets, distributes, and sells over-the-counter (OTC) health and personal care products in the United States and internationally. The company operates in two segments, North American OTC Healthcare and International OTC Healthcare. It offers BC/Goody's analgesic powders, Boudreaux's Butt Paste baby ointments, Chloraseptic sore throat liquids and lozenges, Clear Eyes for eye redness relief, Compound W wart removals, DenTek for PEG oral care, Debrox ear wax removals, and Dramamine for motion sickness relief. The company also provides Fleet adult enemas/suppositories, Gaviscon upset stomach remedies, Luden's cough drops, Monistat vaginal anti-fungal, Nix lice/parasite treatments, Summer's Eve feminine hygiene, TheraTears dry eye relief, Fess nasal saline spray and washes, and Hydralyte for oral rehydration products. It sells its products through mass merchandisers; and drug, food, dollar, convenience, and club stores, as well as e-commerce channels. The company was formerly known as Prestige Brands Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to Prestige Consumer Healthcare Inc. in August 2018. Prestige Consumer Healthcare Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Tarrytown, New York.

About Oramed Pharmaceuticals

Oramed Pharmaceuticals Inc. engages in the research and development of pharmaceutical solutions for the treatment of diabetes and for the use of orally ingestible capsules for delivery of polypeptides. The company's product portfolio includes ORMD-0801, an oral insulin capsule, which is in phase III clinical trial for the treatment of individuals with diabetes, as well as in phase II clinical trial for the treatment of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis; and ORA-D-013-1 and ORA-D-013-2, which have completed phase II clinical trial for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. It has license agreements with Oravax Medical Inc. to commercialize oral vaccines for COVID-19 and other novel coronaviruses. Oramed Pharmaceuticals Inc. was incorporated in 2002 and is headquartered in New York.