EMBC vs AKBA Comparison

Embecta Corp is a medical device company focused on providing solutions to improve the health and well-being of people living with diabetes. It has a broad portfolio of marketed products, including various pen needles, syringes, and safety devices, which are complemented by a proprietary digital application designed to assist people with managing their diabetes. The company predominantly sells products to wholesalers and distributors that sell to retail and institutional channels who in turn sell to patients or use the products to deliver insulin injections to patients. It also provides contract manufacturing services. Geographically, the company derives a majority of its revenue from the United States.

Akebia Therapeutics Inc is a fully integrated biopharmaceutical company. The Company's operating segment is the business of developing and commercializing novel therapeutics for people with kidney disease. The current portfolio of the company includes Auryxia (ferric citrate), a medicine approved and marketed in the United States for the control of serum phosphorus levels in adult patients with dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease and the treatment of iron deficiency anemia, in adult patients with non-dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease, Vafseo (vadadustat), an oral hypoxia-inducible factor prolyl hydroxylase, inhibitor approved in Japan for the treatment of anemia due to chronic kidney disease, in adult patients, HIF-PH inhibitors in preclinical development.