SMBC vs ESPR Comparison

Southern Missouri Bancorp Inc is a USA-based holding company for Southern Missouri Savings Bank. The principal business of the bank consists of attracting retail deposits from the general public and using such deposits along with wholesale funding from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines, and to a lesser extent, brokered deposits, to invest in one- to four-family residential mortgage loans, mortgage loans secured by commercial real estate, commercial non-mortgage business loans, and consumer loans. It is engaged in providing the range of banking and financial services to individuals and corporate customers in its market areas. The company derives revenue principally from interest earned on loans, debt securities, bank card interchange fees, loan late charges and another fee income.

Esperion Therapeutics Inc is a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company currently focused on bringing new medicines to patients that address unmet medical needs. It has developed and is commercializing U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, approved oral, once-daily, non-statin medicines for patients who are at risk for cardiovascular disease (or CVD and are struggling with elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, or LDL-C. The Company views its operations and manages its business in one operating segment, which is the business of researching, developing, and commercializing therapies for the treatment of patients with elevated LDL-C. The company depends almost entirely on the success of two products, the bempedoic acid tablet and the bempedoic acid/ezetimibe combination tablet.