Free Trial

Design Therapeutics (DSGN) Competitors

Design Therapeutics logo
$3.90 -0.11 (-2.74%)
Closing price 06/11/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
Extended Trading
$3.90 0.00 (0.00%)
As of 03:59 AM Eastern
Extended trading is trading that happens on electronic markets outside of regular trading hours. This is a fair market value extended hours price provided by Polygon.io. Learn more.

DSGN vs. PHVS, CRMD, AKBA, OCS, LENZ, PRAX, ZYME, CMRX, CDMO, and NUVB

Should you be buying Design Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Design Therapeutics include Pharvaris (PHVS), CorMedix (CRMD), Akebia Therapeutics (AKBA), Oculis (OCS), LENZ Therapeutics (LENZ), Praxis Precision Medicines (PRAX), Zymeworks (ZYME), Chimerix (CMRX), Avid Bioservices (CDMO), and Nuvation Bio (NUVB). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

Design Therapeutics vs. Its Competitors

Pharvaris (NASDAQ:PHVS) and Design Therapeutics (NASDAQ:DSGN) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, community ranking and dividends.

In the previous week, Pharvaris had 20 more articles in the media than Design Therapeutics. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Pharvaris and 1 mentions for Design Therapeutics. Design Therapeutics' average media sentiment score of 1.68 beat Pharvaris' score of 0.62 indicating that Design Therapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Pharvaris Positive
Design Therapeutics Very Positive

Pharvaris has a beta of -2.86, meaning that its share price is 386% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Design Therapeutics has a beta of 1.62, meaning that its share price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Pharvaris is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Design Therapeutics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
PharvarisN/AN/A-$109.18M-$3.01-5.66
Design TherapeuticsN/AN/A-$66.86M-$0.99-3.94

56.6% of Design Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. 11.8% of Pharvaris shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 31.2% of Design Therapeutics shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Pharvaris received 30 more outperform votes than Design Therapeutics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.80% of users gave Pharvaris an outperform vote while only 33.33% of users gave Design Therapeutics an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
PharvarisOutperform Votes
40
67.80%
Underperform Votes
19
32.20%
Design TherapeuticsOutperform Votes
10
33.33%
Underperform Votes
20
66.67%

Pharvaris presently has a consensus price target of $36.20, indicating a potential upside of 112.32%. Design Therapeutics has a consensus price target of $4.00, indicating a potential upside of 2.56%. Given Pharvaris' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Pharvaris is more favorable than Design Therapeutics.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Pharvaris
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Design Therapeutics
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

Design Therapeutics' return on equity of -18.01% beat Pharvaris' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
PharvarisN/A -38.52% -36.69%
Design Therapeutics N/A -18.01%-17.38%

Summary

Design Therapeutics beats Pharvaris on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

Get Design Therapeutics News Delivered to You Automatically

Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for DSGN and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.

New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding DSGN and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Skip Chart

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.
Skip Chart

DSGN vs. The Competition

MetricDesign TherapeuticsPharmaceutical IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$221.40M$6.85B$5.57B$8.63B
Dividend YieldN/A2.55%5.28%4.18%
P/E Ratio-4.598.7827.1420.06
Price / SalesN/A255.64411.98157.10
Price / CashN/A65.8538.2534.64
Price / Book0.796.557.064.70
Net Income-$66.86M$143.93M$3.23B$247.88M
7 Day Performance-2.50%3.84%2.85%2.63%
1 Month Performance7.73%11.20%9.06%6.36%
1 Year Performance3.45%4.18%31.43%14.05%

Design Therapeutics Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
DSGN
Design Therapeutics
0.7089 of 5 stars
$3.90
-2.7%
$4.00
+2.6%
-3.2%$221.40MN/A-4.5940Positive News
Gap Up
PHVS
Pharvaris
1.4579 of 5 stars
$16.49
-0.7%
$40.67
+146.6%
+7.4%$862.26MN/A-5.8930Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
Gap Up
CRMD
CorMedix
0.5757 of 5 stars
$12.70
+4.6%
$15.00
+18.1%
+188.9%$861.38M$82.55M-15.6830Positive News
AKBA
Akebia Therapeutics
4.4693 of 5 stars
$3.25
+7.3%
$6.63
+103.8%
+221.6%$853.57M$184.91M-14.13430High Trading Volume
OCS
Oculis
1.7955 of 5 stars
$19.22
-1.2%
$31.50
+63.9%
+64.7%$839.18M$980K-9.962Positive News
Short Interest ↑
Analyst Revision
LENZ
LENZ Therapeutics
1.6954 of 5 stars
$29.16
-0.1%
$46.60
+59.8%
+58.1%$820.74MN/A-16.47110Positive News
PRAX
Praxis Precision Medicines
2.5668 of 5 stars
$39.82
+3.3%
$109.90
+176.0%
+13.2%$811.09M$8.12M-3.87110
ZYME
Zymeworks
1.9055 of 5 stars
$11.64
+1.8%
$21.00
+80.4%
+34.0%$809.88M$93.38M-7.76460Positive News
CMRX
Chimerix
0.7182 of 5 stars
$8.54
flat
$8.53
-0.1%
N/A$801.09M$212K-9.0990
CDMO
Avid Bioservices
0.877 of 5 stars
$12.50
+0.1%
$12.25
-2.0%
+56.4%$799.18M$139.91M-5.23320High Trading Volume
NUVB
Nuvation Bio
3.0003 of 5 stars
$2.34
+10.1%
$7.83
+235.5%
-22.5%$794.51M$10.96M-1.0860Trending News
Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume

Related Companies and Tools


This page (NASDAQ:DSGN) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
From Our Partners