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$4.30 -0.15 (-3.37%)
Closing price 06/13/2025 03:47 PM Eastern
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KALA vs. SAVA, MGNX, TNYA, HLVX, GNLX, IOBT, TCRX, CHRS, COYA, and PLRX

Should you be buying KALA BIO stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of KALA BIO include Cassava Sciences (SAVA), MacroGenics (MGNX), Tenaya Therapeutics (TNYA), HilleVax (HLVX), Genelux (GNLX), IO Biotech (IOBT), TScan Therapeutics (TCRX), Coherus BioSciences (CHRS), Coya Therapeutics (COYA), and Pliant Therapeutics (PLRX). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

KALA BIO vs. Its Competitors

Cassava Sciences (NASDAQ:SAVA) and KALA BIO (NASDAQ:KALA) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, risk and institutional ownership.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Cassava SciencesN/AN/A-$97.22M-$1.50-1.37
KALA BIO$3.89M7.13-$42.20M-$8.24-0.52

In the previous week, Cassava Sciences and Cassava Sciences both had 1 articles in the media. Cassava Sciences' average media sentiment score of 1.87 equaled KALA BIO'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Cassava Sciences Very Positive
KALA BIO Very Positive

Cassava Sciences has a beta of -1.99, suggesting that its share price is 299% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, KALA BIO has a beta of -1.98, suggesting that its share price is 298% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Cassava Sciences currently has a consensus price target of $54.50, suggesting a potential upside of 2,558.54%. KALA BIO has a consensus price target of $13.50, suggesting a potential upside of 213.95%. Given Cassava Sciences' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Cassava Sciences is more favorable than KALA BIO.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Cassava Sciences
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50
KALA BIO
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

KALA BIO received 206 more outperform votes than Cassava Sciences when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.11% of users gave KALA BIO an outperform vote while only 64.47% of users gave Cassava Sciences an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Cassava SciencesOutperform Votes
98
64.47%
Underperform Votes
54
35.53%
KALA BIOOutperform Votes
304
67.11%
Underperform Votes
149
32.89%

38.0% of Cassava Sciences shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.6% of KALA BIO shares are held by institutional investors. 2.4% of Cassava Sciences shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.3% of KALA BIO shares are held by company 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.

Cassava Sciences' return on equity of -88.05% beat KALA BIO's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Cassava SciencesN/A -88.05% -64.98%
KALA BIO N/A -448.61%-69.37%

Summary

KALA BIO beats Cassava Sciences on 9 of the 14 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 KALA 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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KALA vs. The Competition

MetricKALA BIOPharmaceutical IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$27.74M$6.88B$5.57B$8.51B
Dividend YieldN/A2.51%5.27%4.15%
P/E Ratio-0.348.5026.7819.65
Price / Sales7.13263.11404.49152.18
Price / CashN/A65.8538.2534.64
Price / Book1.546.526.964.59
Net Income-$42.20M$143.48M$3.23B$248.23M
7 Day Performance3.86%-0.20%-1.24%-1.07%
1 Month Performance31.50%11.63%8.34%3.35%
1 Year Performance-27.85%3.21%33.30%13.77%

KALA BIO Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
KALA
KALA BIO
3.7513 of 5 stars
$4.30
-3.4%
$13.50
+214.0%
-28.3%$27.74M$3.89M-0.3430Positive News
Gap Down
SAVA
Cassava Sciences
4.2698 of 5 stars
$2.15
-1.8%
$54.50
+2,434.9%
-89.7%$103.86MN/A-1.5630Positive News
MGNX
MacroGenics
3.7645 of 5 stars
$1.64
-7.9%
$5.71
+248.4%
-67.5%$103.47M$152.43M-1.04430Options Volume
Gap Down
TNYA
Tenaya Therapeutics
3.6766 of 5 stars
$0.69
+8.1%
$6.25
+811.9%
-84.2%$103.10MN/A-0.48110News Coverage
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
HLVX
HilleVax
3.1945 of 5 stars
$2.04
+2.5%
$3.00
+47.1%
-87.5%$102.29MN/A-0.6620News Coverage
Positive News
GNLX
Genelux
1.1945 of 5 stars
$2.71
+5.9%
$17.75
+555.0%
+28.6%$102.26M$8K-2.8510Analyst Upgrade
IOBT
IO Biotech
3.9452 of 5 stars
$1.55
-3.1%
$9.33
+502.2%
+5.5%$102.12MN/A-1.1330News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Upgrade
Short Interest ↓
TCRX
TScan Therapeutics
3.7318 of 5 stars
$1.77
-1.7%
$7.80
+340.7%
-82.8%$101.86M$4.42M-1.67100News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Downgrade
Gap Up
CHRS
Coherus BioSciences
3.9756 of 5 stars
$0.85
+2.9%
$4.68
+448.1%
-57.2%$99.05M$272.25M-10.68330Positive News
COYA
Coya Therapeutics
2.1821 of 5 stars
$5.88
flat
$17.00
+189.1%
-27.6%$98.34M$3.69M-9.056Gap Up
PLRX
Pliant Therapeutics
4.3014 of 5 stars
$1.60
-1.8%
$13.31
+732.0%
-88.5%$98.22M$1.58M-0.4890Positive News
Analyst Revision
Gap Down

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This page (NASDAQ:KALA) was last updated on 6/14/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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