IMUX vs. AGLE, LXRX, ESPR, SLRN, TBPH, PGEN, CTNM, BMEA, TERN, and VRCA
Should you be buying Immunic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Immunic include Aeglea BioTherapeutics (AGLE), Lexicon Pharmaceuticals (LXRX), Esperion Therapeutics (ESPR), Acelyrin (SLRN), Theravance Biopharma (TBPH), Precigen (PGEN), Contineum Therapeutics (CTNM), Biomea Fusion (BMEA), Terns Pharmaceuticals (TERN), and Verrica Pharmaceuticals (VRCA). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Aeglea BioTherapeutics (NASDAQ:AGLE) and Immunic (NASDAQ:IMUX) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, risk, media sentiment and community ranking.
Aeglea BioTherapeutics currently has a consensus price target of $17.50, indicating a potential upside of ∞. Immunic has a consensus price target of $8.50, indicating a potential upside of 591.06%. Given Immunic's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Aeglea BioTherapeutics is more favorable than Immunic.
Aeglea BioTherapeutics has a beta of 2.57, suggesting that its stock price is 157% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Immunic has a beta of 1.83, suggesting that its stock price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Aeglea BioTherapeutics has higher revenue and earnings than Immunic. Immunic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Aeglea BioTherapeutics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Aeglea BioTherapeutics received 160 more outperform votes than Immunic when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.73% of users gave Immunic an outperform vote while only 56.57% of users gave Aeglea BioTherapeutics an outperform vote.
Immunic has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Immunic's net margin of -22,195.36%. Immunic's return on equity of -132.05% beat Aeglea BioTherapeutics' return on equity.
51.8% of Immunic shares are held by institutional investors. 6.6% of Aeglea BioTherapeutics shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Immunic shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Immunic's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Aeglea BioTherapeutics'average media sentiment score.
Summary
Aeglea BioTherapeutics beats Immunic on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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