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Acurx Pharmaceuticals (ACXP) Competitors

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ACXP vs. AADI, CNTX, ANVS, RNXT, AVTX, IPSC, KLTO, VTVT, BLUE, and PRLD

Should you be buying Acurx Pharmaceuticals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Acurx Pharmaceuticals include Aadi Bioscience (AADI), Context Therapeutics (CNTX), Annovis Bio (ANVS), RenovoRx (RNXT), Avalo Therapeutics (AVTX), Century Therapeutics (IPSC), Klotho Neurosciences (KLTO), vTv Therapeutics (VTVT), bluebird bio (BLUE), and Prelude Therapeutics (PRLD). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

Acurx Pharmaceuticals vs. Its Competitors

Acurx Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ACXP) and Aadi Bioscience (NASDAQ:AADI) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, earnings, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.

Acurx Pharmaceuticals presently has a consensus price target of $8.00, indicating a potential upside of 1,496.81%. Aadi Bioscience has a consensus price target of $1.67, indicating a potential downside of 13.64%. Given Acurx Pharmaceuticals' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Acurx Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than Aadi Bioscience.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Acurx Pharmaceuticals
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Aadi Bioscience
0 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

In the previous week, Acurx Pharmaceuticals had 1 more articles in the media than Aadi Bioscience. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Acurx Pharmaceuticals and 0 mentions for Aadi Bioscience. Acurx Pharmaceuticals' average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat Aadi Bioscience's score of 0.00 indicating that Acurx Pharmaceuticals is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Acurx Pharmaceuticals Very Positive
Aadi Bioscience Neutral

11.5% of Acurx Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.1% of Aadi Bioscience shares are owned by institutional investors. 26.0% of Acurx Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 37.3% of Aadi Bioscience shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Acurx Pharmaceuticals has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Aadi Bioscience's net margin of -246.06%. Aadi Bioscience's return on equity of -71.87% beat Acurx Pharmaceuticals' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Acurx PharmaceuticalsN/A -526.78% -223.78%
Aadi Bioscience -246.06%-71.87%-57.28%

Acurx Pharmaceuticals has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Aadi Bioscience. Aadi Bioscience is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Acurx Pharmaceuticals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Acurx PharmaceuticalsN/AN/A-$14.10M-$0.70-0.72
Aadi Bioscience$25.07M1.90-$65.76M-$2.35-0.82

Acurx Pharmaceuticals has a beta of -1.38, meaning that its stock price is 238% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Aadi Bioscience has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Acurx Pharmaceuticals beats Aadi Bioscience on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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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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ACXP vs. The Competition

MetricAcurx PharmaceuticalsMED IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$11.76M$2.88B$5.52B$8.87B
Dividend YieldN/A2.70%5.36%4.13%
P/E Ratio-0.7221.6626.5019.82
Price / SalesN/A267.10410.19110.66
Price / CashN/A41.2925.8827.49
Price / Book16.707.277.945.39
Net Income-$14.10M-$55.05M$3.15B$248.34M
7 Day Performance-20.48%-0.47%1.08%1.25%
1 Month Performance31.05%6.59%5.34%5.41%
1 Year Performance-76.59%0.42%32.80%18.07%

Acurx Pharmaceuticals Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ACXP
Acurx Pharmaceuticals
2.801 of 5 stars
$0.50
-1.9%
$8.00
+1,496.8%
-77.3%$11.76MN/A-0.723Positive News
AADI
Aadi Bioscience
0.6127 of 5 stars
$2.09
+2.0%
$1.67
-20.3%
+32.2%$51.62M$25.07M-0.9240High Trading Volume
CNTX
Context Therapeutics
3.4564 of 5 stars
$0.56
-1.6%
$6.00
+965.0%
-67.3%$51.37MN/A-1.827
ANVS
Annovis Bio
1.6198 of 5 stars
$2.64
+1.5%
$30.25
+1,045.8%
-62.2%$50.66MN/A-1.223
RNXT
RenovoRx
3.0383 of 5 stars
$1.41
+2.2%
$7.25
+414.2%
+16.4%$50.47M$40K-3.536Gap Down
High Trading Volume
AVTX
Avalo Therapeutics
3.3351 of 5 stars
$4.79
+3.2%
$30.00
+526.3%
-60.0%$50.24M$440K0.0040Positive News
IPSC
Century Therapeutics
2.7938 of 5 stars
$0.58
-1.2%
$4.20
+630.4%
-78.1%$50.14M$6.59M-1.98170
KLTO
Klotho Neurosciences
N/A$1.20
-22.1%
N/AN/A$50.04MN/A-3.33N/ANews Coverage
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VTVT
vTv Therapeutics
2.0489 of 5 stars
$15.61
+0.4%
$35.50
+127.5%
-15.1%$49.66M$1.02M-5.189Gap Down
BLUE
bluebird bio
2.1344 of 5 stars
$4.97
flat
$44.60
+797.4%
N/A$48.67M$103.95M-0.13520
PRLD
Prelude Therapeutics
3.3722 of 5 stars
$0.84
-2.4%
$4.50
+435.7%
-78.8%$48.58M$7M-0.50120Gap Down

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This page (NASDAQ:ACXP) was last updated on 7/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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