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Kezar Life Sciences (KZR) Competitors

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$4.38 -0.01 (-0.23%)
As of 04/30/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

KZR vs. ADCT, THTX, SLS, ENTA, EDIT, NLTX, PROC, NMRA, LXEO, and TIL

Should you be buying Kezar Life Sciences stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kezar Life Sciences include ADC Therapeutics (ADCT), Theratechnologies (THTX), SELLAS Life Sciences Group (SLS), Enanta Pharmaceuticals (ENTA), Editas Medicine (EDIT), Neoleukin Therapeutics (NLTX), Procaps Group (PROC), Neumora Therapeutics (NMRA), Lexeo Therapeutics (LXEO), and Instil Bio (TIL). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

Kezar Life Sciences vs.

ADC Therapeutics (NYSE:ADCT) and Kezar Life Sciences (NASDAQ:KZR) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk and profitability.

ADC Therapeutics has a beta of 1.55, meaning that its stock price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kezar Life Sciences has a beta of 0.61, meaning that its stock price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Kezar Life Sciences received 75 more outperform votes than ADC Therapeutics when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.89% of users gave ADC Therapeutics an outperform vote while only 57.08% of users gave Kezar Life Sciences an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
ADC TherapeuticsOutperform Votes
62
68.89%
Underperform Votes
28
31.11%
Kezar Life SciencesOutperform Votes
137
57.08%
Underperform Votes
103
42.92%

Kezar Life Sciences has lower revenue, but higher earnings than ADC Therapeutics. ADC Therapeutics 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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
ADC Therapeutics$70.84M1.99-$240.05M-$1.65-0.86
Kezar Life Sciences$7M4.57-$101.87M-$11.55-0.38

ADC Therapeutics presently has a consensus target price of $7.75, suggesting a potential upside of 445.77%. Kezar Life Sciences has a consensus target price of $39.50, suggesting a potential upside of 801.83%. Given Kezar Life Sciences' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Kezar Life Sciences is more favorable than ADC Therapeutics.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
ADC Therapeutics
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Kezar Life Sciences
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.33

Kezar Life Sciences has a net margin of 0.00% compared to ADC Therapeutics' net margin of -300.00%. ADC Therapeutics' return on equity of 0.00% beat Kezar Life Sciences' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
ADC Therapeutics-300.00% N/A -61.33%
Kezar Life Sciences N/A -54.95%-46.11%

In the previous week, ADC Therapeutics had 1 more articles in the media than Kezar Life Sciences. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for ADC Therapeutics and 1 mentions for Kezar Life Sciences. Kezar Life Sciences' average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat ADC Therapeutics' score of -0.33 indicating that Kezar Life Sciences is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
ADC Therapeutics Neutral
Kezar Life Sciences Very Positive

41.1% of ADC Therapeutics shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.9% of Kezar Life Sciences shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.1% of ADC Therapeutics shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.3% of Kezar Life Sciences shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Kezar Life Sciences beats ADC Therapeutics on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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KZR vs. The Competition

MetricKezar Life SciencesPharmaceutical IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$32M$6.90B$5.57B$7.82B
Dividend YieldN/A3.06%5.11%4.22%
P/E Ratio-0.337.4522.4218.48
Price / Sales4.57242.72394.10103.91
Price / CashN/A65.8538.1834.62
Price / Book0.176.516.774.25
Net Income-$101.87M$143.21M$3.22B$248.23M
7 Day Performance-4.37%3.97%3.26%3.29%
1 Month Performance-10.98%0.37%0.02%2.42%
1 Year Performance-46.88%2.60%18.01%5.54%

Kezar Life Sciences Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
KZR
Kezar Life Sciences
4.0311 of 5 stars
$4.38
-0.2%
$39.50
+801.8%
-46.9%$32M$7M-0.3360Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
Positive News
ADCT
ADC Therapeutics
1.5431 of 5 stars
$1.22
+0.4%
$7.75
+537.9%
-67.7%$120.39M$70.84M-0.51310Upcoming Earnings
THTX
Theratechnologies
N/A$2.55
+1.2%
N/A+118.5%$117.25M$88.67M-25.50140Short Interest ↑
SLS
SELLAS Life Sciences Group
0.7481 of 5 stars
$1.29
-1.5%
N/A+25.0%$117.19M$1M-1.8710
ENTA
Enanta Pharmaceuticals
3.9297 of 5 stars
$5.23
+2.5%
$17.25
+229.8%
-55.7%$111.57M$66.59M-1.06160Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
Positive News
EDIT
Editas Medicine
4.1665 of 5 stars
$1.33
+3.9%
$6.83
+413.8%
-68.3%$111.33M$32.31M-0.52230Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Upgrade
News Coverage
NLTX
Neoleukin Therapeutics
N/A$11.49
+6.7%
N/A-61.0%$107.98MN/A-3.6990High Trading Volume
PROC
Procaps Group
N/A$0.95
-40.3%
N/A-66.4%$107.18M$409.92M0.004,900Gap Down
High Trading Volume
NMRA
Neumora Therapeutics
3.1513 of 5 stars
$0.66
+2.0%
$9.29
+1,306.9%
-91.4%$106.75MN/A-0.35108
LXEO
Lexeo Therapeutics
2.8893 of 5 stars
$3.21
+18.5%
$22.20
+591.6%
-68.4%$106.56M$650,000.00-1.0258Upcoming Earnings
Positive News
High Trading Volume
TIL
Instil Bio
3.3779 of 5 stars
$16.00
+3.6%
$114.00
+612.5%
+18.8%$104.94MN/A-1.38410Positive News
Gap Down

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This page (NASDAQ:KZR) was last updated on 5/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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