BLTE vs. CYTK, SMMT, OGN, BBIO, MDGL, APLS, NUVL, ALPN, ALKS, and CRNX
Should you be buying Belite Bio stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Belite Bio include Cytokinetics (CYTK), Summit Therapeutics (SMMT), Organon & Co. (OGN), BridgeBio Pharma (BBIO), Madrigal Pharmaceuticals (MDGL), Apellis Pharmaceuticals (APLS), Nuvalent (NUVL), Alpine Immune Sciences (ALPN), Alkermes (ALKS), and Crinetics Pharmaceuticals (CRNX). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Cytokinetics (NASDAQ:CYTK) and Belite Bio (NASDAQ:BLTE) are both medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and community ranking.
0.5% of Belite Bio shares are held by institutional investors. 3.4% of Cytokinetics shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.3% of Belite Bio shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Cytokinetics had 26 more articles in the media than Belite Bio. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Cytokinetics and 2 mentions for Belite Bio. Cytokinetics' average media sentiment score of 1.39 beat Belite Bio's score of 0.71 indicating that Belite Bio is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Cytokinetics has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Belite Bio has a beta of -1.43, suggesting that its share price is 243% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Belite Bio has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Cytokinetics. Belite Bio is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cytokinetics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Belite Bio has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Belite Bio's net margin of -14,141.74%. Belite Bio's return on equity of 0.00% beat Cytokinetics' return on equity.
Cytokinetics currently has a consensus target price of $76.41, indicating a potential upside of 41.09%. Belite Bio has a consensus target price of $44.83, indicating a potential downside of 8.58%. Given Belite Bio's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Cytokinetics is more favorable than Belite Bio.
Cytokinetics received 759 more outperform votes than Belite Bio when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 95.83% of users gave Belite Bio an outperform vote while only 79.31% of users gave Cytokinetics an outperform vote.
Summary
Belite Bio beats Cytokinetics on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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