APRE vs. FBRX, VTGN, BYSI, CLRB, VSTM, CLSD, LFVN, PMVP, PRPH, and YS
Should you be buying Aprea Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aprea Therapeutics include Forte Biosciences (FBRX), Vistagen Therapeutics (VTGN), BeyondSpring (BYSI), Cellectar Biosciences (CLRB), Verastem (VSTM), Clearside Biomedical (CLSD), LifeVantage (LFVN), PMV Pharmaceuticals (PMVP), ProPhase Labs (PRPH), and YS Biopharma (YS). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Aprea Therapeutics (NASDAQ:APRE) and Forte Biosciences (NASDAQ:FBRX) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, valuation, risk, earnings, media sentiment and dividends.
Aprea Therapeutics has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Forte Biosciences has a beta of 0.46, suggesting that its share price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500.
34.2% of Aprea Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.6% of Forte Biosciences shares are held by institutional investors. 12.8% of Aprea Therapeutics shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 10.5% of Forte Biosciences shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Aprea Therapeutics has higher revenue and earnings than Forte Biosciences. Aprea Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Forte Biosciences, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Forte Biosciences had 4 more articles in the media than Aprea Therapeutics. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Forte Biosciences and 5 mentions for Aprea Therapeutics. Forte Biosciences' average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Aprea Therapeutics' score of 0.51 indicating that Forte Biosciences is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Aprea Therapeutics received 21 more outperform votes than Forte Biosciences when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.78% of users gave Forte Biosciences an outperform vote while only 52.81% of users gave Aprea Therapeutics an outperform vote.
Forte Biosciences has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Aprea Therapeutics' net margin of -1,317.82%. Aprea Therapeutics' return on equity of -56.78% beat Forte Biosciences' return on equity.
Aprea Therapeutics currently has a consensus price target of $15.50, indicating a potential upside of 224.95%. Forte Biosciences has a consensus price target of $3.38, indicating a potential upside of 468.37%. Given Forte Biosciences' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Forte Biosciences is more favorable than Aprea Therapeutics.
Summary
Aprea Therapeutics and Forte Biosciences tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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