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KOD vs. ARQT, IMCR, SPRY, TARS, ADPT, SDGR, JANX, ABCL, EVO, and EWTX

Should you be buying Kodiak Sciences stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kodiak Sciences include Arcutis Biotherapeutics (ARQT), Immunocore (IMCR), ARS Pharmaceuticals (SPRY), Tarsus Pharmaceuticals (TARS), Adaptive Biotechnologies (ADPT), Schrodinger (SDGR), Janux Therapeutics (JANX), AbCellera Biologics (ABCL), Evotec (EVO), and Edgewise Therapeutics (EWTX). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

Kodiak Sciences vs. Its Competitors

Kodiak Sciences (NASDAQ:KOD) and Arcutis Biotherapeutics (NASDAQ:ARQT) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and risk.

89.1% of Kodiak Sciences shares are held by institutional investors. 45.9% of Kodiak Sciences shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 9.4% of Arcutis Biotherapeutics shares are held 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.

Kodiak Sciences has a beta of 2.41, indicating that its stock price is 141% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Arcutis Biotherapeutics has a beta of 1.84, indicating that its stock price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Arcutis Biotherapeutics had 7 more articles in the media than Kodiak Sciences. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Arcutis Biotherapeutics and 0 mentions for Kodiak Sciences. Arcutis Biotherapeutics' average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Kodiak Sciences' score of 0.00 indicating that Arcutis Biotherapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Kodiak Sciences Neutral
Arcutis Biotherapeutics Positive

Kodiak Sciences has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Arcutis Biotherapeutics' net margin of -60.95%. Arcutis Biotherapeutics' return on equity of -80.66% beat Kodiak Sciences' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Kodiak SciencesN/A -115.71% -54.17%
Arcutis Biotherapeutics -60.95%-80.66%-32.94%

Kodiak Sciences currently has a consensus target price of $9.00, suggesting a potential upside of 35.34%. Arcutis Biotherapeutics has a consensus target price of $19.40, suggesting a potential upside of 35.76%. Given Arcutis Biotherapeutics' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Arcutis Biotherapeutics is more favorable than Kodiak Sciences.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Kodiak Sciences
1 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Arcutis Biotherapeutics
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.83

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Kodiak SciencesN/AN/A-$176.21M-$3.63-1.83
Arcutis Biotherapeutics$196.54M8.67-$140.04M-$1.04-13.74

Summary

Arcutis Biotherapeutics beats Kodiak Sciences on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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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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KOD vs. The Competition

MetricKodiak SciencesMED IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$346.92M$3.00B$5.49B$9.52B
Dividend YieldN/A2.43%4.73%4.09%
P/E Ratio-1.8317.6228.7823.81
Price / SalesN/A179.21372.2066.04
Price / CashN/A41.9535.4557.96
Price / Book2.338.508.275.54
Net Income-$176.21M-$55.06M$3.25B$259.28M
7 Day Performance-24.77%-3.99%-3.70%-4.64%
1 Month Performance73.63%9.58%4.34%4.41%
1 Year Performance148.13%6.70%25.90%17.95%

Kodiak Sciences Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
KOD
Kodiak Sciences
3.3316 of 5 stars
$6.65
+1.2%
$9.00
+35.3%
+130.1%$346.92MN/A-1.8390Gap Down
ARQT
Arcutis Biotherapeutics
2.7194 of 5 stars
$14.96
+0.7%
$19.40
+29.7%
+50.7%$1.77B$196.54M-14.38150News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
IMCR
Immunocore
1.7414 of 5 stars
$33.94
-3.5%
$58.89
+73.5%
-16.7%$1.77B$310.20M-78.93320News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
SPRY
ARS Pharmaceuticals
3.204 of 5 stars
$18.35
+2.7%
$31.00
+68.9%
+63.8%$1.76B$89.15M0.0090Upcoming Earnings
TARS
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals
2.5317 of 5 stars
$41.75
+0.6%
$66.67
+59.7%
+74.2%$1.74B$182.95M-15.2950Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
ADPT
Adaptive Biotechnologies
3.0058 of 5 stars
$10.61
-1.3%
$10.57
-0.4%
+132.1%$1.63B$178.96M-11.05790Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
Gap Down
SDGR
Schrodinger
2.5882 of 5 stars
$22.39
+0.7%
$32.75
+46.3%
-13.6%$1.63B$207.54M-8.51790Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
Gap Down
JANX
Janux Therapeutics
2.4078 of 5 stars
$25.55
-1.6%
$91.89
+259.6%
-43.2%$1.54B$10.59M-18.7930Upcoming Earnings
ABCL
AbCellera Biologics
2.4221 of 5 stars
$4.92
-3.7%
$8.75
+77.8%
+39.0%$1.52B$28.83M-8.79500News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
Gap Up
EVO
Evotec
2.0865 of 5 stars
$4.26
flat
$5.93
+39.3%
-13.2%$1.51B$862.40M0.004,827News Coverage
EWTX
Edgewise Therapeutics
2.4487 of 5 stars
$14.26
+1.0%
$40.00
+180.5%
-14.6%$1.49BN/A-9.2060News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast

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This page (NASDAQ:KOD) was last updated on 8/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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