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Venture Life Group (VLG) Competitors

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GBX 57.90 -0.10 (-0.17%)
As of 08/22/2025 12:19 PM Eastern

VLG vs. ANCR, STX, EAH, DNL, PXS, MXC, RGT, CEL, CHLL, and N4P

Should you be buying Venture Life Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Venture Life Group include Animalcare Group (ANCR), Shield Therapeutics (STX), ECO Animal Health Group (EAH), Diurnal Group (DNL), Provexis (PXS), Argent BioPharma (MXC), Argent BioPharma (RGT), Celadon Pharmaceuticals (CEL), Chill Brands Group (CHLL), and N4 Pharma (N4P). These companies are all part of the "drug manufacturers - specialty & generic" industry.

Venture Life Group vs. Its Competitors

Venture Life Group (LON:VLG) and Animalcare Group (LON:ANCR) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.

Animalcare Group has higher revenue and earnings than Venture Life Group. Animalcare Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Venture Life Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Venture Life Group£51.77M1.43£747.21K£0.5998.26
Animalcare Group£84.90M2.12£36.55M£53.644.88

Animalcare Group has a net margin of 43.05% compared to Venture Life Group's net margin of 1.44%. Animalcare Group's return on equity of 36.62% beat Venture Life Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Venture Life Group1.44% 0.99% 1.56%
Animalcare Group 43.05%36.62%2.97%

69.5% of Venture Life Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.0% of Animalcare Group shares are held by institutional investors. 10.4% of Venture Life Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 29.5% of Animalcare Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

In the previous week, Animalcare Group had 1 more articles in the media than Venture Life Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Animalcare Group and 0 mentions for Venture Life Group. Venture Life Group's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Animalcare Group's score of 0.44 indicating that Venture Life Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Venture Life Group Positive
Animalcare Group Neutral

Venture Life Group has a beta of 0.3, suggesting that its share price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Animalcare Group has a beta of 0.55, suggesting that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Animalcare Group beats Venture Life Group on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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VLG vs. The Competition

MetricVenture Life GroupDrug Manufacturers IndustryMedical SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£73.78M£2.26B£5.82B£3.22B
Dividend Yield0.09%2.92%4.40%5.04%
P/E Ratio98.264.3631.30164.70
Price / Sales1.43691.66433.14310,111.42
Price / Cash6.4010.3738.0227.93
Price / Book0.9911.959.535.91
Net Income£747.21K£20.70B£3.26B£5.89B
7 Day Performance-1.86%1.07%2.13%49.52%
1 Month Performance4.12%3.82%3.21%56.91%
1 Year Performance25.87%4.37%30.18%140.38%

Venture Life Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
VLG
Venture Life Group
N/AGBX 57.90
-0.2%
N/A+25.2%£73.78M£51.77M98.26165News Coverage
ANCR
Animalcare Group
N/AGBX 264.70
-0.9%
N/A-4.0%£181.48M£84.90M4.93220News Coverage
STX
Shield Therapeutics
N/AGBX 5.65
+8.7%
N/A+117.1%£55.76M£20.92M-1.4640,000News Coverage
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
EAH
ECO Animal Health Group
3.7191 of 5 stars
GBX 73.33
-0.2%
GBX 150
+104.6%
-31.1%£49.69M£89.44M47.40234News Coverage
Positive News
DNL
Diurnal Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£46.33M£4.68M-3.2133
PXS
Provexis
N/AGBX 0.71
-4.3%
N/A+39.8%£16.57M£846.98K-26.774Gap Down
MXC
Argent BioPharma
N/AN/AN/AN/A£9.65M£1.32M-13.255News Coverage
Gap Up
RGT
Argent BioPharma
N/AN/AN/AN/A£8.31MN/A-0.65N/AGap Down
High Trading Volume
CEL
Celadon Pharmaceuticals
N/AGBX 13.40
flat
N/AN/A£8.22M£123.38K-1.682,780
CHLL
Chill Brands Group
N/AGBX 1.39
+25.9%
N/AN/A£7.01M£624.19K-138.507
N4P
N4 Pharma
N/AGBX 0.50
+2.0%
N/A-9.3%£2.15M£8.84K-1.445Gap Up

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This page (LON:VLG) was last updated on 8/24/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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