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Lipocine (LPCN) Competitors

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LPCN vs. CRVO, PYXS, TELO, EPIX, JSPR, ADAP, IMAB, STRO, IGMS, and ZURA

Should you be buying Lipocine stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lipocine include CervoMed (CRVO), Pyxis Oncology (PYXS), Telomir Pharmaceuticals (TELO), ESSA Pharma (EPIX), Jasper Therapeutics (JSPR), Adaptimmune Therapeutics (ADAP), I-Mab (IMAB), Sutro Biopharma (STRO), IGM Biosciences (IGMS), and Zura Bio (ZURA). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

Lipocine vs.

Lipocine (NASDAQ:LPCN) and CervoMed (NASDAQ:CRVO) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, profitability, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends and valuation.

9.1% of Lipocine shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 25.1% of CervoMed shares are held by institutional investors. 6.1% of Lipocine shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 35.4% of CervoMed shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Lipocine has a net margin of 0.00% compared to CervoMed's net margin of -118.68%. Lipocine's return on equity of -19.17% beat CervoMed's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
LipocineN/A -19.17% -17.60%
CervoMed -118.68%-44.11%-39.81%

Lipocine has a beta of 1.52, suggesting that its share price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CervoMed has a beta of -0.23, suggesting that its share price is 123% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Lipocine received 322 more outperform votes than CervoMed when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 83.33% of users gave CervoMed an outperform vote while only 66.73% of users gave Lipocine an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
LipocineOutperform Votes
347
66.73%
Underperform Votes
173
33.27%
CervoMedOutperform Votes
25
83.33%
Underperform Votes
5
16.67%

Lipocine currently has a consensus target price of $10.00, indicating a potential upside of 176.24%. CervoMed has a consensus target price of $27.63, indicating a potential upside of 224.62%. Given CervoMed's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe CervoMed is more favorable than Lipocine.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Lipocine
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
CervoMed
1 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.89

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Lipocine$3.67M5.27-$16.35M-$1.02-3.55
CervoMed$7.14M10.37-$2.17M-$2.18-3.90

In the previous week, CervoMed had 12 more articles in the media than Lipocine. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for CervoMed and 1 mentions for Lipocine. CervoMed's average media sentiment score of 0.24 beat Lipocine's score of 0.00 indicating that CervoMed is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Lipocine
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
CervoMed
0 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Summary

CervoMed beats Lipocine on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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LPCN vs. The Competition

MetricLipocinePharmaceutical IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$19.48M$6.53B$5.38B$8.39B
Dividend YieldN/A2.65%5.21%4.10%
P/E Ratio-4.768.9226.8019.71
Price / Sales5.27252.24389.55117.28
Price / CashN/A65.8538.2534.62
Price / Book0.956.466.804.50
Net Income-$16.35M$143.98M$3.23B$248.18M
7 Day Performance-2.95%2.03%1.53%0.23%
1 Month Performance20.27%4.11%10.05%12.39%
1 Year Performance-45.15%-2.87%16.75%7.07%

Lipocine Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
LPCN
Lipocine
1.5258 of 5 stars
$3.62
-0.5%
$10.00
+176.2%
-44.6%$19.48M$3.67M-4.7610Gap Up
High Trading Volume
CRVO
CervoMed
3.3162 of 5 stars
$8.79
+0.1%
$27.63
+214.3%
-56.2%$76.41M$7.14M-4.034
PYXS
Pyxis Oncology
1.4189 of 5 stars
$1.23
+1.7%
$9.00
+631.7%
-71.3%$76.20M$16.15M-1.1960Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
TELO
Telomir Pharmaceuticals
1.7156 of 5 stars
$2.54
+1.6%
$15.00
+490.6%
-62.6%$75.60MN/A-4.381News Coverage
EPIX
ESSA Pharma
2.0005 of 5 stars
$1.70
-0.6%
$2.00
+17.6%
-73.2%$75.46MN/A-2.4650Positive News
JSPR
Jasper Therapeutics
2.153 of 5 stars
$5.02
+1.8%
$62.22
+1,139.5%
-79.1%$75.41MN/A-1.0620
ADAP
Adaptimmune Therapeutics
2.7357 of 5 stars
$0.29
+4.8%
$1.52
+421.2%
-74.5%$74.93M$178.03M-1.32490
IMAB
I-Mab
3.1896 of 5 stars
$0.91
+1.2%
$5.50
+503.8%
-46.4%$74.24M$3.27M0.00380News Coverage
STRO
Sutro Biopharma
4.3921 of 5 stars
$0.88
-3.7%
$6.11
+596.2%
-81.5%$74.18M$66.43M-0.55240News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
Gap Down
IGMS
IGM Biosciences
4.2786 of 5 stars
$1.24
+5.1%
$5.50
+343.5%
-86.0%$74.12M$2.68M-0.34190Positive News
Gap Down
ZURA
Zura Bio
2.859 of 5 stars
$1.08
-2.7%
$14.33
+1,227.2%
-81.3%$73.85MN/A-1.543News Coverage
Analyst Revision
Gap Up

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This page (NASDAQ:LPCN) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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