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$2.09
-0.02 (-0.95%)
(As of 10/31/2024 ET)

CRON vs. APLS, APGE, PTCT, EWTX, XENE, ZLAB, MLTX, IOVA, RYTM, and KYMR

Should you be buying Cronos Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cronos Group include Apellis Pharmaceuticals (APLS), Apogee Therapeutics (APGE), PTC Therapeutics (PTCT), Edgewise Therapeutics (EWTX), Xenon Pharmaceuticals (XENE), Zai Lab (ZLAB), MoonLake Immunotherapeutics (MLTX), Iovance Biotherapeutics (IOVA), Rhythm Pharmaceuticals (RYTM), and Kymera Therapeutics (KYMR). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

Cronos Group vs.

Apellis Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:APLS) and Cronos Group (NASDAQ:CRON) are both medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, media sentiment, valuation, dividends and profitability.

Cronos Group received 129 more outperform votes than Apellis Pharmaceuticals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.68% of users gave Apellis Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 61.13% of users gave Cronos Group an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Apellis PharmaceuticalsOutperform Votes
335
67.68%
Underperform Votes
160
32.32%
Cronos GroupOutperform Votes
464
61.13%
Underperform Votes
295
38.87%

Apellis Pharmaceuticals currently has a consensus target price of $65.41, suggesting a potential upside of 139.96%. Cronos Group has a consensus target price of $3.00, suggesting a potential upside of 43.54%. Given Apellis Pharmaceuticals' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Apellis Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than Cronos Group.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Apellis Pharmaceuticals
0 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
12 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.78
Cronos Group
1 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.00

Apellis Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.87, meaning that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cronos Group has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Apellis Pharmaceuticals had 19 more articles in the media than Cronos Group. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Apellis Pharmaceuticals and 1 mentions for Cronos Group. Cronos Group's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Apellis Pharmaceuticals' score of 0.30 indicating that Cronos Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Apellis Pharmaceuticals
4 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
8 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Cronos Group
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

96.3% of Apellis Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.7% of Cronos Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.8% of Apellis Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.9% of Cronos Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Apellis Pharmaceuticals has a net margin of -52.99% compared to Cronos Group's net margin of -56.43%. Cronos Group's return on equity of -2.06% beat Apellis Pharmaceuticals' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Apellis Pharmaceuticals-52.99% -138.32% -39.63%
Cronos Group -56.43%-2.06%-1.99%

Cronos Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Apellis Pharmaceuticals. Cronos Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Apellis Pharmaceuticals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Apellis Pharmaceuticals$628.79M5.26-$528.63M-$3.46-7.88
Cronos Group$101.78M7.85-$73.96M-$0.15-13.93

Summary

Apellis Pharmaceuticals beats Cronos Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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CRON vs. The Competition

MetricCronos GroupMedicinals & botanicals IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$799.00M$1.28B$5.37B$8.41B
Dividend YieldN/AN/A5.23%4.20%
P/E Ratio-13.938.57131.9117.69
Price / Sales7.857.551,441.8380.21
Price / CashN/A15.2439.1233.56
Price / Book0.731.834.744.57
Net Income-$73.96M-$52.95M$115.66M$225.49M
7 Day Performance-4.57%4.54%-0.88%-0.61%
1 Month Performance-4.57%1.61%3.59%1.50%
1 Year Performance15.47%6.89%38.93%32.93%

Cronos Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CRON
Cronos Group
1.8452 of 5 stars
$2.09
-0.9%
$3.00
+43.5%
+19.2%$799.00M$101.78M-13.93356
APLS
Apellis Pharmaceuticals
4.4012 of 5 stars
$27.36
+0.1%
$65.41
+139.1%
-42.2%$3.32B$628.79M-9.99702Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Revision
APGE
Apogee Therapeutics
2.713 of 5 stars
$56.30
+2.5%
$78.50
+39.4%
+229.3%$3.29BN/A-27.2091
PTCT
PTC Therapeutics
2.7637 of 5 stars
$42.43
+4.8%
$40.08
-5.5%
+117.0%$3.26B$937.82M-6.721,410Upcoming Earnings
EWTX
Edgewise Therapeutics
1.9281 of 5 stars
$34.40
+1.1%
$35.60
+3.5%
+387.8%$3.23BN/A-22.1960Short Interest ↓
Positive News
XENE
Xenon Pharmaceuticals
3.429 of 5 stars
$41.73
0.0%
$57.45
+37.7%
+33.0%$3.15B$9.43M-15.23251Options Volume
Positive News
ZLAB
Zai Lab
2.7852 of 5 stars
$31.41
-3.5%
$52.50
+67.1%
+21.5%$3.13B$322.71M-10.262,175Gap Down
MLTX
MoonLake Immunotherapeutics
1.927 of 5 stars
$48.32
+0.6%
$80.45
+66.5%
-3.9%$3.09BN/A-53.102Positive News
IOVA
Iovance Biotherapeutics
3.7889 of 5 stars
$10.82
-1.9%
$22.33
+106.4%
+198.4%$3.03B$32.77M-6.48500Upcoming Earnings
RYTM
Rhythm Pharmaceuticals
4.0396 of 5 stars
$49.54
+0.2%
$60.33
+21.8%
+117.6%$3.02B$101.78M-11.36140Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
KYMR
Kymera Therapeutics
0.7816 of 5 stars
$48.51
-1.2%
$49.00
+1.0%
+324.9%$2.98B$88.55M-20.05170News Coverage

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This page (NASDAQ:CRON) was last updated on 10/31/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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