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IMARA (IMRA) Competitors

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IMRA vs. ALKS, ZLAB, AKRO, RYTM, PBH, CYTK, PTCT, RNA, MRUS, and SRPT

Should you be buying IMARA stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IMARA include Alkermes (ALKS), Zai Lab (ZLAB), Akero Therapeutics (AKRO), Rhythm Pharmaceuticals (RYTM), Prestige Consumer Healthcare (PBH), Cytokinetics (CYTK), PTC Therapeutics (PTCT), Avidity Biosciences (RNA), Merus (MRUS), and Sarepta Therapeutics (SRPT). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.

IMARA vs. Its Competitors

IMARA (NASDAQ:IMRA) and Alkermes (NASDAQ:ALKS) are both medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, profitability, dividends, community ranking and earnings.

IMARA has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alkermes has a beta of 0.47, indicating that its stock price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Alkermes has a consensus price target of $38.85, indicating a potential upside of 30.23%. Given Alkermes' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Alkermes is more favorable than IMARA.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
IMARA
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Alkermes
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.77

In the previous week, Alkermes had 9 more articles in the media than IMARA. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Alkermes and 1 mentions for IMARA. Alkermes' average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat IMARA's score of 0.00 indicating that Alkermes is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
IMARA Neutral
Alkermes Positive

Alkermes has higher revenue and earnings than IMARA. Alkermes is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IMARA, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
IMARAN/AN/A$1.49M$0.05982.05
Alkermes$1.51B3.25$367.07M$2.0914.27

49.3% of IMARA shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.2% of Alkermes shares are owned by institutional investors. 37.3% of IMARA shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.4% of Alkermes shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Alkermes has a net margin of 23.57% compared to IMARA's net margin of 0.00%. Alkermes' return on equity of 30.80% beat IMARA's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
IMARAN/A 2.12% 2.00%
Alkermes 23.57%30.80%19.09%

Alkermes received 680 more outperform votes than IMARA when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.18% of users gave Alkermes an outperform vote while only 57.78% of users gave IMARA an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
IMARAOutperform Votes
26
57.78%
Underperform Votes
19
42.22%
AlkermesOutperform Votes
706
70.18%
Underperform Votes
300
29.82%

Summary

Alkermes beats IMARA on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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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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IMRA vs. The Competition

MetricIMARAPharmaceutical IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$1.29B$6.88B$5.57B$8.50B
Dividend YieldN/A2.48%5.27%4.17%
P/E Ratio982.258.4626.7519.66
Price / SalesN/A261.91403.98152.07
Price / Cash75.2465.8538.2534.64
Price / Book14.276.526.964.59
Net Income$1.49M$143.26M$3.23B$248.23M

IMARA Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
IMRA
IMARA
N/A$49.10
-3.3%
N/AN/A$1.29BN/A982.2541Insider Trade
ALKS
Alkermes
4.6852 of 5 stars
$31.06
-0.3%
$38.85
+25.1%
+21.8%$5.12B$1.51B14.312,280Insider Trade
ZLAB
Zai Lab
1.2665 of 5 stars
$40.00
+5.6%
$47.37
+18.4%
+119.4%$4.41B$418.33M-14.441,950Analyst Revision
Gap Up
AKRO
Akero Therapeutics
3.6098 of 5 stars
$54.52
-0.3%
$82.50
+51.3%
+131.9%$4.35BN/A-14.5430Trending News
Insider Trade
Gap Down
RYTM
Rhythm Pharmaceuticals
4.151 of 5 stars
$67.37
+1.0%
$76.62
+13.7%
+47.1%$4.29B$136.86M-15.56140Insider Trade
PBH
Prestige Consumer Healthcare
4.1103 of 5 stars
$86.59
+1.1%
$93.33
+7.8%
+30.3%$4.28B$1.14B20.28540Positive News
CYTK
Cytokinetics
4.2618 of 5 stars
$34.54
+4.3%
$70.92
+105.3%
-36.3%$4.13B$19.22M-6.42250Analyst Revision
PTCT
PTC Therapeutics
3.869 of 5 stars
$51.74
+0.1%
$63.75
+23.2%
+43.1%$4.10B$1.77B-8.711,410Analyst Revision
Gap Down
RNA
Avidity Biosciences
1.9283 of 5 stars
$33.62
+2.9%
$67.50
+100.8%
-20.9%$4.05B$8.93M-11.67190Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
Analyst Revision
Gap Down
MRUS
Merus
3.1031 of 5 stars
$56.45
+2.8%
$85.83
+52.1%
-3.4%$3.91B$54.73M-14.2937
SRPT
Sarepta Therapeutics
4.7004 of 5 stars
$39.07
-1.6%
$122.61
+213.8%
-70.5%$3.84B$2.23B31.26840

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This page (NASDAQ:IMRA) was last updated on 6/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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