EQ vs. KZR, ANL, ANVS, IMUX, CYBN, RLMD, OPTN, RAPT, IMAB, and NVCT
Should you be buying Equillium stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Equillium include Kezar Life Sciences (KZR), Adlai Nortye (ANL), Annovis Bio (ANVS), Immunic (IMUX), Cybin (CYBN), Relmada Therapeutics (RLMD), OptiNose (OPTN), RAPT Therapeutics (RAPT), I-Mab (IMAB), and Nuvectis Pharma (NVCT). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Kezar Life Sciences (NASDAQ:KZR) and Equillium (NASDAQ:EQ) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, earnings and risk.
Equillium has higher revenue and earnings than Kezar Life Sciences. Equillium is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kezar Life Sciences, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Kezar Life Sciences has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Kezar Life Sciences' net margin of -32.01%. Equillium's return on equity of -47.28% beat Kezar Life Sciences' return on equity.
Kezar Life Sciences presently has a consensus price target of $4.50, indicating a potential upside of 573.65%. Equillium has a consensus price target of $3.90, indicating a potential upside of 376.95%. Given Equillium's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Kezar Life Sciences is more favorable than Equillium.
Kezar Life Sciences has a beta of 0.28, suggesting that its share price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Equillium has a beta of 1.82, suggesting that its share price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500.
67.9% of Kezar Life Sciences shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.1% of Equillium shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.3% of Kezar Life Sciences shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 30.3% of Equillium shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Kezar Life Sciences had 1 more articles in the media than Equillium. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Kezar Life Sciences and 3 mentions for Equillium. Kezar Life Sciences' average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Equillium's score of 0.33 indicating that Equillium is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Kezar Life Sciences received 100 more outperform votes than Equillium when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 83.33% of users gave Equillium an outperform vote while only 58.19% of users gave Kezar Life Sciences an outperform vote.
Summary
Equillium beats Kezar Life Sciences on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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