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Aurora Cannabis (ACB) Competitors

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As of 04/30/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

ACB vs. WVE, ETNB, COLL, MLYS, NTLA, SYRE, ZYME, RCUS, NRIX, and CMRX

Should you be buying Aurora Cannabis stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aurora Cannabis include Wave Life Sciences (WVE), 89bio (ETNB), Collegium Pharmaceutical (COLL), Mineralys Therapeutics (MLYS), Intellia Therapeutics (NTLA), Spyre Therapeutics (SYRE), Zymeworks (ZYME), Arcus Biosciences (RCUS), Nurix Therapeutics (NRIX), and Chimerix (CMRX). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

Aurora Cannabis vs.

Wave Life Sciences (NASDAQ:WVE) and Aurora Cannabis (NASDAQ:ACB) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and institutional ownership.

In the previous week, Wave Life Sciences had 6 more articles in the media than Aurora Cannabis. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Wave Life Sciences and 4 mentions for Aurora Cannabis. Wave Life Sciences' average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Aurora Cannabis' score of 0.60 indicating that Wave Life Sciences is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Wave Life Sciences
4 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Aurora Cannabis
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Aurora Cannabis received 16 more outperform votes than Wave Life Sciences when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.90% of users gave Wave Life Sciences an outperform vote while only 59.63% of users gave Aurora Cannabis an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Wave Life SciencesOutperform Votes
368
67.90%
Underperform Votes
174
32.10%
Aurora CannabisOutperform Votes
384
59.63%
Underperform Votes
260
40.37%

89.7% of Wave Life Sciences shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.6% of Aurora Cannabis shares are held by institutional investors. 29.1% of Wave Life Sciences shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Aurora Cannabis shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Aurora Cannabis has a net margin of 0.42% compared to Wave Life Sciences' net margin of -66.50%. Aurora Cannabis' return on equity of 0.59% beat Wave Life Sciences' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Wave Life Sciences-66.50% -280.57% -52.90%
Aurora Cannabis 0.42%0.59%0.42%

Wave Life Sciences currently has a consensus price target of $21.17, suggesting a potential upside of 174.18%. Given Wave Life Sciences' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Wave Life Sciences is more favorable than Aurora Cannabis.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Wave Life Sciences
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
10 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Aurora Cannabis
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.67

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Wave Life Sciences$108.30M10.94-$57.51M-$0.79-9.77
Aurora Cannabis$320.81M0.81-$48.62M$0.0592.80

Wave Life Sciences has a beta of -0.93, indicating that its share price is 193% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Aurora Cannabis has a beta of 1.63, indicating that its share price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Aurora Cannabis beats Wave Life Sciences on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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ACB vs. The Competition

MetricAurora CannabisMedicinals & botanicals IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$260.83M$1.19B$5.56B$7.83B
Dividend YieldN/AN/A5.11%4.22%
P/E Ratio92.8210.4522.4418.48
Price / Sales0.8110.33393.95103.59
Price / Cash26.3510.4038.1834.62
Price / Book0.571.456.774.25
Net Income-$48.62M-$54.34M$3.22B$248.23M
7 Day Performance-1.49%4.05%1.45%0.89%
1 Month Performance6.18%24.15%3.96%3.53%
1 Year Performance-36.96%-37.14%16.07%5.08%

Aurora Cannabis Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ACB
Aurora Cannabis
0.6453 of 5 stars
$4.64
flat
N/A-49.7%$260.83M$320.81M92.821,340News Coverage
WVE
Wave Life Sciences
4.313 of 5 stars
$6.12
+3.4%
$22.18
+262.4%
+56.6%$939.33M$108.30M-5.51240Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
Positive News
ETNB
89bio
2.7852 of 5 stars
$6.27
+3.5%
$27.56
+339.5%
-5.8%$915.32MN/A-2.1540Upcoming Earnings
Positive News
COLL
Collegium Pharmaceutical
4.051 of 5 stars
$26.91
-0.4%
$43.60
+62.0%
-26.9%$864.67M$631.45M11.60210Upcoming Earnings
Positive News
MLYS
Mineralys Therapeutics
2.3896 of 5 stars
$13.24
-0.8%
$33.00
+149.2%
+16.0%$858.96MN/A-3.6428Upcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↑
NTLA
Intellia Therapeutics
4.4678 of 5 stars
$7.92
+9.5%
$36.68
+363.2%
-58.6%$819.86M$57.88M-1.46600Upcoming Earnings
Positive News
High Trading Volume
SYRE
Spyre Therapeutics
1.7938 of 5 stars
$13.57
+7.1%
$49.57
+265.3%
-53.9%$817.95M$890,000.00-1.82100Upcoming Earnings
Positive News
ZYME
Zymeworks
2.7711 of 5 stars
$11.75
+1.9%
$21.00
+78.7%
+51.6%$817.53M$76.30M-7.83460Upcoming Earnings
Positive News
RCUS
Arcus Biosciences
2.0487 of 5 stars
$7.68
-2.5%
$30.25
+293.9%
-42.6%$807.46M$258M-2.44500Upcoming Earnings
Positive News
Gap Down
NRIX
Nurix Therapeutics
1.9428 of 5 stars
$10.55
+3.0%
$30.44
+188.6%
-4.1%$804.29M$56.42M-3.65300Analyst Forecast
Positive News
Gap Down
CMRX
Chimerix
3.0303 of 5 stars
$8.55
-0.1%
$8.53
-0.1%
N/A$801.56M$212,000.00-9.0990

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