PPBT vs. KPRX, MNPR, IMNN, RDHL, AVTX, PIRS, ELAB, AKTX, MBRX, and MIRA
Should you be buying Purple Biotech stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Purple Biotech include Kiora Pharmaceuticals (KPRX), Monopar Therapeutics (MNPR), Imunon (IMNN), RedHill Biopharma (RDHL), Avalo Therapeutics (AVTX), Pieris Pharmaceuticals (PIRS), Elevai Labs (ELAB), Akari Therapeutics (AKTX), Moleculin Biotech (MBRX), and MIRA Pharmaceuticals (MIRA). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Purple Biotech (NASDAQ:PPBT) and Kiora Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:KPRX) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk, earnings, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
9.6% of Purple Biotech shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.0% of Kiora Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. 3.0% of Purple Biotech shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Kiora Pharmaceuticals shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Purple Biotech currently has a consensus target price of $9.00, indicating a potential upside of 1,613.96%. Kiora Pharmaceuticals has a consensus target price of $0.00, indicating a potential downside of 100.00%. Given Purple Biotech's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Purple Biotech is more favorable than Kiora Pharmaceuticals.
Purple Biotech's return on equity of -57.40% beat Kiora Pharmaceuticals' return on equity.
In the previous week, Kiora Pharmaceuticals had 5 more articles in the media than Purple Biotech. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Kiora Pharmaceuticals and 2 mentions for Purple Biotech. Purple Biotech's average media sentiment score of 0.44 beat Kiora Pharmaceuticals' score of 0.00 indicating that Purple Biotech is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Purple Biotech and Kiora Pharmaceuticals both received 12 outperform votes by MarketBeat users. However, 92.31% of users gave Purple Biotech an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave Kiora Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote.
Purple Biotech has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kiora Pharmaceuticals has a beta of -0.18, meaning that its stock price is 118% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Purple Biotech beats Kiora Pharmaceuticals on 8 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
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