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Lipocine (LPCN) Competitors

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$2.98 +0.04 (+1.36%)
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LPCN vs. ABVC, IMMX, HOWL, BTAI, CLNN, CUE, DTIL, DRRX, COEP, and VTVT

Should you be buying Lipocine stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lipocine include ABVC BioPharma (ABVC), Immix Biopharma (IMMX), Werewolf Therapeutics (HOWL), BioXcel Therapeutics (BTAI), Clene (CLNN), Cue Biopharma (CUE), Precision BioSciences (DTIL), DURECT (DRRX), Coeptis Therapeutics (COEP), and vTv Therapeutics (VTVT). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

Lipocine vs. Its Competitors

Lipocine (NASDAQ:LPCN) and ABVC BioPharma (NASDAQ:ABVC) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, risk, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.

9.1% of Lipocine shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.4% of ABVC BioPharma shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.4% of Lipocine shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.1% of ABVC BioPharma shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Lipocine has a net margin of 0.00% compared to ABVC BioPharma's net margin of -963.46%. Lipocine's return on equity of -23.59% beat ABVC BioPharma's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
LipocineN/A -23.59% -21.91%
ABVC BioPharma -963.46%-46.76%-23.02%

Lipocine presently has a consensus price target of $9.00, suggesting a potential upside of 202.01%. Given Lipocine's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Lipocine is more favorable than ABVC BioPharma.

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)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.50
ABVC BioPharma
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Lipocine has a beta of 1.28, indicating that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ABVC BioPharma has a beta of 0.27, indicating that its share price is 73% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Lipocine has higher revenue and earnings than ABVC BioPharma. ABVC BioPharma 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$11.20M1.44$10K-$0.87-3.43
ABVC BioPharma$391.24K171.49-$4.90M-$0.17-16.76

In the previous week, ABVC BioPharma had 1 more articles in the media than Lipocine. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for ABVC BioPharma and 1 mentions for Lipocine. ABVC BioPharma's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Lipocine's score of 0.88 indicating that ABVC BioPharma is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Lipocine Positive
ABVC BioPharma Positive

Summary

Lipocine beats ABVC BioPharma on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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LPCN vs. The Competition

MetricLipocineMED IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$15.93M$2.59B$5.86B$10.14B
Dividend YieldN/A56.51%5.68%4.59%
P/E Ratio-3.4323.5374.5225.93
Price / Sales1.44699.46547.62126.81
Price / CashN/A171.1637.5660.44
Price / Book0.765.3712.166.29
Net Income$10K$32.95M$3.28B$270.77M
7 Day Performance3.11%1.28%0.87%3.88%
1 Month Performance-1.00%6.09%4.96%4.88%
1 Year Performance-35.36%-2.15%60.75%26.01%

Lipocine Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
LPCN
Lipocine
3.177 of 5 stars
$2.98
+1.4%
$9.00
+202.0%
-27.0%$15.93M$11.20M-3.4310
ABVC
ABVC BioPharma
0.6982 of 5 stars
$2.72
+2.6%
N/A+312.9%$62.39M$510K-16.0030
IMMX
Immix Biopharma
2.953 of 5 stars
$2.17
+0.9%
$7.00
+222.6%
+15.8%$61.99MN/A-2.829News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↑
HOWL
Werewolf Therapeutics
3.9773 of 5 stars
$1.33
-1.5%
$8.00
+501.5%
-33.8%$61.73M$1.88M-0.8140
BTAI
BioXcel Therapeutics
4.0594 of 5 stars
$4.23
+11.6%
$39.75
+839.7%
-64.7%$60.67M$2.27M-0.3390Short Interest ↑
CLNN
Clene
3.2088 of 5 stars
$6.63
+10.0%
$33.00
+397.7%
-8.5%$60.24M$340K-1.76100News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume
CUE
Cue Biopharma
2.7157 of 5 stars
$0.78
-0.4%
N/A+27.8%$59.94M$9.29M-1.3960
DTIL
Precision BioSciences
4.184 of 5 stars
$4.97
-2.0%
$47.00
+845.7%
-56.1%$59.76M$68.70M-0.56200News Coverage
Gap Down
DRRX
DURECT
1.508 of 5 stars
$1.96
+2.6%
N/AN/A$59.31M$1.66M-19.6080News Coverage
Options Volume
COEP
Coeptis Therapeutics
0.9052 of 5 stars
$12.95
+5.5%
N/A+244.0%$59.15MN/A-2.232Positive News
VTVT
vTv Therapeutics
2.6131 of 5 stars
$18.76
+2.5%
$35.50
+89.2%
+35.1%$58.49M$1.02M-6.019Gap Up
High Trading Volume

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This page (NASDAQ:LPCN) was last updated on 9/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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