ERYTECH Pharma (NASDAQ:ERYP – Get Rating) and Omega Therapeutics (NASDAQ:OMGA – Get Rating) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations and valuation.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

4.9% of ERYTECH Pharma shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.8% of Omega Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. 1.9% of ERYTECH Pharma shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 60.0% of Omega Therapeutics shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares ERYTECH Pharma and Omega Therapeutics' net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

Valuation and Earnings

ERYTECH Pharma has higher revenue and earnings than Omega Therapeutics.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for ERYTECH Pharma and Omega Therapeutics, as provided by MarketBeat.

Omega Therapeutics has a consensus target price of $6.00, suggesting a potential upside of 22.20%. Given Omega Therapeutics' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Omega Therapeutics is more favorable than ERYTECH Pharma.

Summary

Omega Therapeutics beats ERYTECH Pharma on 6 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About ERYTECH Pharma

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ERYTECH Pharma S.A., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, develops red blood cell-based therapeutics for cancer and orphan diseases in France and the United States. Its lead product candidate is eryaspase, which is in Phase 3 clinical development for the treatment of second-line pancreatic cancer, and in Phase 2 stage for the treatment of triple-negative breast cancer and second-line acute lymphoblastic leukemia patients. The company also engages in developing erymethionase, a preclinical product candidate that consists of methionine-?-lyase in red blood cells to target methionine cancers. The company was incorporated in 2004 and is headquartered in Lyon, France.

About Omega Therapeutics

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Omega Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a development-stage biopharmaceutical company. Its OMEGA Epigenomic Programming platform is designed to coopt nature's operating system by harnessing the power of epigenetics, the mechanism for gene control and cell differentiation. The company is developing omega epigenomic controller (OEC) candidates to up-regulate the expression of HNF4a, a transcriptional master regulator as a potential way to restore liver-cell function in patients suffering from chronic liver diseases; to control the expression of genes that have been strongly linked to cell-growth inhibition in patients with diabetes and other conditions to restore the capacity for corneal regeneration; to down-regulate expression of the CXCL1, 2, 3, and IL-8 gene cluster; to control expression of genes implicated in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis to halt or reverse disease progression and improve disease outcomes; to down-regulate the expression of SFRP1, a protein that inhibits hair growth; and to treat non-small cell lung cancer and small cell lung cancer. It is also developing OTX-2002 to down-regulate c-Myc, an oncogene. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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