NXTC vs. KZR, HOOK, PRTK, IMAB, TELO, RAPT, VERU, SYRS, SGMT, and CRVS
Should you be buying NextCure stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NextCure include Kezar Life Sciences (KZR), Hookipa Pharma (HOOK), Paratek Pharmaceuticals (PRTK), I-Mab (IMAB), Telomir Pharmaceuticals (TELO), RAPT Therapeutics (RAPT), Veru (VERU), Syros Pharmaceuticals (SYRS), Sagimet Biosciences (SGMT), and Corvus Pharmaceuticals (CRVS). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Kezar Life Sciences (NASDAQ:KZR) and NextCure (NASDAQ:NXTC) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, risk and institutional ownership.
NextCure's return on equity of -47.28% beat Kezar Life Sciences' return on equity.
Kezar Life Sciences received 56 more outperform votes than NextCure when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.93% of users gave NextCure an outperform vote while only 58.01% of users gave Kezar Life Sciences an outperform vote.
67.9% of Kezar Life Sciences shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.7% of NextCure shares are held by institutional investors. 9.3% of Kezar Life Sciences shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.3% of NextCure shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Kezar Life Sciences has a beta of 0.23, suggesting that its share price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NextCure has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Kezar Life Sciences had 1 more articles in the media than NextCure. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Kezar Life Sciences and 0 mentions for NextCure. NextCure's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Kezar Life Sciences'average media sentiment score.
Kezar Life Sciences currently has a consensus price target of $11.00, suggesting a potential upside of 1,506.54%. NextCure has a consensus price target of $6.00, suggesting a potential upside of 331.65%. Given NextCure's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Kezar Life Sciences is more favorable than NextCure.
NextCure has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Kezar Life Sciences. NextCure is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kezar Life Sciences, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Kezar Life Sciences beats NextCure on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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