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ACIU vs. CMRX, CDMO, AVBP, SNDX, IMNM, QURE, PHAR, XERS, CRON, and MENS

Should you be buying AC Immune stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AC Immune include Chimerix (CMRX), Avid Bioservices (CDMO), ArriVent BioPharma (AVBP), Syndax Pharmaceuticals (SNDX), Immunome (IMNM), uniQure (QURE), Pharming Group (PHAR), Xeris Biopharma (XERS), Cronos Group (CRON), and Jyong Biotech (MENS). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

AC Immune vs. Its Competitors

AC Immune (NASDAQ:ACIU) and Chimerix (NASDAQ:CMRX) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.

Chimerix has a net margin of 0.00% compared to AC Immune's net margin of -177.79%. AC Immune's return on equity of -44.60% beat Chimerix's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
AC Immune-177.79% -44.60% -22.25%
Chimerix N/A -50.78%-44.94%

In the previous week, AC Immune had 2 more articles in the media than Chimerix. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for AC Immune and 0 mentions for Chimerix. AC Immune's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Chimerix's score of 0.00 indicating that AC Immune is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
AC Immune Positive
Chimerix Neutral

AC Immune has higher revenue and earnings than Chimerix. Chimerix is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AC Immune, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
AC Immune$31.02M6.67-$57.83M-$0.58-3.55
Chimerix$212K3,778.71-$82.10M-$0.99-8.63

AC Immune has a beta of 1.62, suggesting that its stock price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chimerix has a beta of -0.17, suggesting that its stock price is 117% less volatile than the S&P 500.

51.4% of AC Immune shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.4% of Chimerix shares are held by institutional investors. 4.6% of AC Immune shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.1% of Chimerix shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

AC Immune presently has a consensus price target of $12.00, indicating a potential upside of 482.52%. Chimerix has a consensus price target of $8.53, indicating a potential downside of 0.08%. Given AC Immune's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe AC Immune is more favorable than Chimerix.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
AC Immune
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Chimerix
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

Summary

AC Immune beats Chimerix on 13 of the 16 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 NASDAQ 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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ACIU vs. The Competition

MetricAC ImmuneMED IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$202.83M$2.91B$5.54B$8.95B
Dividend YieldN/A2.42%5.38%4.08%
P/E Ratio-3.5521.5627.4020.04
Price / Sales6.67281.10419.46118.60
Price / CashN/A41.9536.6357.47
Price / Book1.607.518.085.67
Net Income-$57.83M-$55.05M$3.16B$248.47M
7 Day Performance-1.44%3.16%2.12%2.90%
1 Month Performance24.85%5.92%4.43%5.75%
1 Year Performance-45.93%5.82%35.62%21.36%

AC Immune Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ACIU
AC Immune
2.6313 of 5 stars
$2.06
+2.0%
$12.00
+482.5%
-47.8%$202.83M$31.02M-3.55140
CMRX
Chimerix
0.7511 of 5 stars
$8.54
flat
$8.53
-0.1%
N/A$801.09M$212K-9.0990
CDMO
Avid Bioservices
0.7159 of 5 stars
$12.50
+0.1%
$12.25
-2.0%
+86.5%$799.18M$139.91M-5.23320News Coverage
High Trading Volume
AVBP
ArriVent BioPharma
1.7582 of 5 stars
$21.77
-5.0%
$40.00
+83.7%
+14.6%$783.81MN/A-5.7740Gap Down
SNDX
Syndax Pharmaceuticals
2.8396 of 5 stars
$9.36
+3.5%
$35.80
+282.5%
-56.4%$777.87M$23.68M-2.42110Positive News
IMNM
Immunome
2.543 of 5 stars
$9.30
+6.0%
$23.33
+150.9%
-26.2%$763.10M$9.04M-2.9240Positive News
High Trading Volume
QURE
uniQure
1.9788 of 5 stars
$13.94
+0.6%
$37.82
+171.3%
+256.1%$759.19M$27.12M-3.18500News Coverage
PHAR
Pharming Group
2.3807 of 5 stars
$10.68
-2.9%
$30.00
+181.0%
+32.3%$748.58M$297.20M-53.38280Positive News
High Trading Volume
XERS
Xeris Biopharma
4.0896 of 5 stars
$4.67
-0.6%
$6.25
+33.8%
+129.6%$735.01M$203.07M-15.57290Positive News
CRON
Cronos Group
2.3128 of 5 stars
$1.91
+0.5%
N/A-11.9%$732.80M$117.61M14.69450News Coverage
MENS
Jyong Biotech
N/A$8.50
-10.5%
N/AN/A$722.26MN/A0.0031Analyst Upgrade

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This page (NASDAQ:ACIU) was last updated on 7/3/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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