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$32.71 -0.71 (-2.12%)
Closing price 04/25/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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DRUG vs. WVE, MLYS, ETNB, COLL, DYN, ELVN, RCUS, CMRX, CDMO, and SYRE

Should you be buying Bright Minds Biosciences stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bright Minds Biosciences include Wave Life Sciences (WVE), Mineralys Therapeutics (MLYS), 89bio (ETNB), Collegium Pharmaceutical (COLL), Dyne Therapeutics (DYN), Enliven Therapeutics (ELVN), Arcus Biosciences (RCUS), Chimerix (CMRX), Avid Bioservices (CDMO), and Spyre Therapeutics (SYRE). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

Bright Minds Biosciences vs.

Bright Minds Biosciences (NASDAQ:DRUG) and Wave Life Sciences (NASDAQ:WVE) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations and profitability.

Wave Life Sciences received 361 more outperform votes than Bright Minds Biosciences when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Bright Minds Biosciences an outperform vote while only 67.84% of users gave Wave Life Sciences an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Bright Minds BiosciencesOutperform Votes
6
100.00%
Underperform Votes
No Votes
Wave Life SciencesOutperform Votes
367
67.84%
Underperform Votes
174
32.16%

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Bright Minds BiosciencesN/AN/A-$2.06M-$0.17-192.41
Wave Life Sciences$108.30M9.54-$57.51M-$0.79-8.52

Bright Minds Biosciences has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Wave Life Sciences' net margin of -66.50%. Bright Minds Biosciences' return on equity of -5.85% beat Wave Life Sciences' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Bright Minds BiosciencesN/A -5.85% -5.68%
Wave Life Sciences -66.50%-280.57%-52.90%

In the previous week, Wave Life Sciences had 9 more articles in the media than Bright Minds Biosciences. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Wave Life Sciences and 2 mentions for Bright Minds Biosciences. Bright Minds Biosciences' average media sentiment score of 1.90 beat Wave Life Sciences' score of 1.23 indicating that Bright Minds Biosciences is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Bright Minds Biosciences
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive
Wave Life Sciences
7 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Bright Minds Biosciences presently has a consensus target price of $84.33, suggesting a potential upside of 157.82%. Wave Life Sciences has a consensus target price of $22.18, suggesting a potential upside of 229.60%. Given Wave Life Sciences' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Wave Life Sciences is more favorable than Bright Minds Biosciences.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Bright Minds Biosciences
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.20
Wave Life Sciences
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
9 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Bright Minds Biosciences has a beta of -5.5, suggesting that its share price is 650% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wave Life Sciences has a beta of -0.93, suggesting that its share price is 193% less volatile than the S&P 500.

40.5% of Bright Minds Biosciences shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.7% of Wave Life Sciences shares are owned by institutional investors. 42.7% of Bright Minds Biosciences shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 29.1% of Wave Life Sciences shares are owned 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.

Summary

Bright Minds Biosciences beats Wave Life Sciences on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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DRUG vs. The Competition

MetricBright Minds BiosciencesPharmaceutical IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$230.41M$6.71B$5.46B$7.81B
Dividend YieldN/A3.16%5.43%4.26%
P/E Ratio-192.407.2322.4318.46
Price / SalesN/A239.68391.42101.46
Price / CashN/A65.8538.1834.62
Price / Book5.586.306.684.19
Net Income-$2.06M$143.17M$3.22B$248.05M
7 Day Performance-1.21%8.00%6.25%6.54%
1 Month Performance-9.57%-4.01%-2.70%-1.97%
1 Year Performance2,873.64%-2.24%16.86%4.72%

Bright Minds Biosciences Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
DRUG
Bright Minds Biosciences
3.4945 of 5 stars
$32.71
-2.1%
$84.33
+157.8%
+2,873.6%$230.41MN/A-192.40N/APositive News
WVE
Wave Life Sciences
4.2959 of 5 stars
$6.00
+6.2%
$22.18
+269.7%
+44.4%$920.92M$108.30M-5.41240Gap Down
MLYS
Mineralys Therapeutics
2.4255 of 5 stars
$13.92
+3.9%
$33.00
+137.1%
+12.4%$873.97MN/A-3.8228Short Interest ↑
Positive News
Gap Up
ETNB
89bio
3.0064 of 5 stars
$5.92
+7.1%
$27.56
+365.5%
-16.0%$864.23MN/A-2.0340Analyst Forecast
Options Volume
News Coverage
Positive News
COLL
Collegium Pharmaceutical
3.9182 of 5 stars
$26.73
+1.6%
$43.60
+63.1%
-26.4%$858.89M$631.45M11.52210Positive News
DYN
Dyne Therapeutics
3.2808 of 5 stars
$7.47
+6.1%
$47.46
+535.4%
-55.3%$845.01MN/A-2.10100Upcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
Gap Down
ELVN
Enliven Therapeutics
2.0017 of 5 stars
$17.19
+4.1%
$40.33
+134.6%
+6.0%$842.38MN/A-9.0550News Coverage
Gap Up
RCUS
Arcus Biosciences
2.0619 of 5 stars
$7.67
-6.2%
$30.25
+294.4%
-46.6%$806.41M$258M-2.43500Analyst Forecast
Gap Down
CMRX
Chimerix
3.0149 of 5 stars
$8.54
+0.2%
$8.53
-0.1%
N/A$801.09M$212,000.00-9.0990Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
CDMO
Avid Bioservices
0.7616 of 5 stars
$12.50
+0.1%
$12.25
-2.0%
+70.0%$799.18M$139.91M-5.23320High Trading Volume
SYRE
Spyre Therapeutics
1.9164 of 5 stars
$13.02
+6.5%
$49.57
+280.7%
-57.9%$784.55M$890,000.00-1.74100Positive News

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