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$1.93 -0.10 (-4.93%)
Closing price 07/11/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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GLMD vs. TRIB, ATHA, BGXX, BCDA, EQ, SNSE, LPTX, BTAI, XFOR, and PHXM

Should you be buying Galmed Pharmaceuticals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Galmed Pharmaceuticals include Trinity Biotech (TRIB), Athira Pharma (ATHA), Bright Green (BGXX), BioCardia (BCDA), Equillium (EQ), Sensei Biotherapeutics (SNSE), Leap Therapeutics (LPTX), BioXcel Therapeutics (BTAI), X4 Pharmaceuticals (XFOR), and PHAXIAM Therapeutics (PHXM). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

Galmed Pharmaceuticals vs. Its Competitors

Galmed Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:GLMD) and Trinity Biotech (NASDAQ:TRIB) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership and media sentiment.

76.1% of Galmed Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.0% of Trinity Biotech shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.8% of Galmed Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.2% of Trinity Biotech shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Trinity Biotech had 1 more articles in the media than Galmed Pharmaceuticals. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Trinity Biotech and 1 mentions for Galmed Pharmaceuticals. Galmed Pharmaceuticals' average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat Trinity Biotech's score of 0.93 indicating that Galmed Pharmaceuticals is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Galmed Pharmaceuticals Very Positive
Trinity Biotech Positive

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Galmed Pharmaceuticals
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Trinity Biotech
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Galmed PharmaceuticalsN/AN/A-$7.52M-$16.66-0.12
Trinity Biotech$61.56M0.23-$31.79M-$2.93-0.27

Galmed Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.6, meaning that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Trinity Biotech has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Galmed Pharmaceuticals has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Trinity Biotech's net margin of -51.64%. Trinity Biotech's return on equity of 0.00% beat Galmed Pharmaceuticals' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Galmed PharmaceuticalsN/A -32.21% -28.59%
Trinity Biotech -51.64%N/A -27.43%

Summary

Trinity Biotech beats Galmed Pharmaceuticals on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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

MetricGalmed PharmaceuticalsMED IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$3.36M$2.74B$5.62B$9.10B
Dividend YieldN/A1.79%5.24%4.00%
P/E Ratio-0.129.4228.0520.27
Price / SalesN/A714.12429.5999.27
Price / CashN/A165.3637.4658.16
Price / Book0.204.608.055.49
Net Income-$7.52M$31.26M$3.18B$250.45M
7 Day Performance6.93%4.80%3.60%4.77%
1 Month Performance19.88%5.42%4.03%7.66%
1 Year Performance-47.32%-4.36%29.49%16.39%

Galmed Pharmaceuticals Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
GLMD
Galmed Pharmaceuticals
1.4273 of 5 stars
$1.93
-4.9%
N/A-46.4%$3.36MN/A-0.1220Positive News
Gap Down
TRIB
Trinity Biotech
1.0058 of 5 stars
$0.65
-0.3%
N/A-71.4%$11.77M$61.56M-0.23480
ATHA
Athira Pharma
3.7979 of 5 stars
$0.30
+2.4%
$11.25
+3,625.2%
-86.8%$11.52MN/A-0.1540Positive News
Gap Up
BGXX
Bright Green
N/AN/AN/AN/A$11.47MN/A-1.002Gap Down
BCDA
BioCardia
3.521 of 5 stars
$1.95
-9.3%
$25.00
+1,182.1%
-23.5%$11.13M$60K-0.8440Positive News
Gap Down
EQ
Equillium
2.9264 of 5 stars
$0.32
+1.7%
$3.00
+851.8%
-54.0%$11.07M$41.10M-0.8140News Coverage
Gap Down
SNSE
Sensei Biotherapeutics
4.6719 of 5 stars
$8.58
-1.2%
$90.00
+949.0%
-40.1%$10.94MN/A-0.3740Positive News
Gap Down
LPTX
Leap Therapeutics
2.0863 of 5 stars
$0.30
+13.5%
$3.38
+1,036.7%
-84.2%$10.84MN/A-0.1740Gap Down
BTAI
BioXcel Therapeutics
4.2586 of 5 stars
$1.81
+2.3%
$42.60
+2,253.6%
-89.7%$10.72M$2.27M-0.1390News Coverage
Positive News
XFOR
X4 Pharmaceuticals
4.9408 of 5 stars
$1.90
+3.8%
$72.33
+3,707.0%
-93.1%$10.59M$2.56M0.8980News Coverage
Positive News
High Trading Volume
PHXM
PHAXIAM Therapeutics
N/A$3.10
flat
N/AN/A$10.58M$32.66M0.0049

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This page (NASDAQ:GLMD) was last updated on 7/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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