VTVT vs. CMRX, ASRT, ONCY, GNLX, PRPH, RVPH, ACRS, AFMD, IFRX, and MIST
Should you be buying vTv Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of vTv Therapeutics include Chimerix (CMRX), Assertio (ASRT), Oncolytics Biotech (ONCY), Genelux (GNLX), ProPhase Labs (PRPH), Reviva Pharmaceuticals (RVPH), Aclaris Therapeutics (ACRS), Affimed (AFMD), InflaRx (IFRX), and Milestone Pharmaceuticals (MIST). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Chimerix (NASDAQ:CMRX) and vTv Therapeutics (NASDAQ:VTVT) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, dividends and media sentiment.
vTv Therapeutics has a net margin of 0.00% compared to vTv Therapeutics' net margin of -25,337.96%. Chimerix's return on equity of 0.00% beat vTv Therapeutics' return on equity.
Chimerix currently has a consensus target price of $8.00, suggesting a potential upside of 739.54%. Given vTv Therapeutics' higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Chimerix is more favorable than vTv Therapeutics.
45.4% of Chimerix shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.5% of vTv Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. 10.0% of Chimerix shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of vTv Therapeutics shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Chimerix has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, vTv Therapeutics has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Chimerix received 35 more outperform votes than vTv Therapeutics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.01% of users gave Chimerix an outperform vote while only 57.83% of users gave vTv Therapeutics an outperform vote.
vTv Therapeutics has higher revenue and earnings than Chimerix. vTv Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chimerix, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Chimerix had 23 more articles in the media than vTv Therapeutics. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Chimerix and 0 mentions for vTv Therapeutics. Chimerix's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat vTv Therapeutics' score of 0.24 indicating that vTv Therapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Chimerix beats vTv Therapeutics on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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