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LVTX vs. LFVN, MEIP, NKTX, ELDN, SLN, HURA, CTOR, THTX, MOLN, and ALTS

Should you be buying LAVA Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LAVA Therapeutics include Lifevantage (LFVN), MEI Pharma (MEIP), Nkarta (NKTX), Eledon Pharmaceuticals (ELDN), Silence Therapeutics (SLN), TuHURA Biosciences (HURA), Citius Oncology (CTOR), Theratechnologies (THTX), Molecular Partners (MOLN), and ALT5 Sigma (ALTS). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

LAVA Therapeutics vs. Its Competitors

LAVA Therapeutics (NASDAQ:LVTX) and Lifevantage (NASDAQ:LFVN) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment and institutional ownership.

LAVA Therapeutics currently has a consensus price target of $2.69, suggesting a potential upside of 73.23%. Lifevantage has a consensus price target of $30.50, suggesting a potential upside of 126.60%. Given Lifevantage's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Lifevantage is more favorable than LAVA Therapeutics.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
LAVA Therapeutics
0 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Lifevantage
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Lifevantage has a net margin of 4.12% compared to LAVA Therapeutics' net margin of 0.00%. Lifevantage's return on equity of 34.67% beat LAVA Therapeutics' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
LAVA TherapeuticsN/A -106.29% -38.24%
Lifevantage 4.12%34.67%15.24%

LAVA Therapeutics has a beta of 0.5, meaning that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lifevantage has a beta of 0.39, meaning that its share price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Lifevantage had 12 more articles in the media than LAVA Therapeutics. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Lifevantage and 2 mentions for LAVA Therapeutics. Lifevantage's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat LAVA Therapeutics' score of -0.50 indicating that Lifevantage is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
LAVA Therapeutics
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Negative
Lifevantage
4 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
7 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

35.3% of Lifevantage shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.5% of LAVA Therapeutics shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.7% of Lifevantage shares are owned 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.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
LAVA Therapeutics$11.98M3.40-$25.11M-$1.05-1.48
Lifevantage$200.16M0.85$2.94M$0.6919.51

Summary

Lifevantage beats LAVA Therapeutics on 14 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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LVTX vs. The Competition

MetricLAVA TherapeuticsMED IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$41.30M$3.13B$5.75B$9.85B
Dividend YieldN/A2.28%6.67%4.51%
P/E Ratio-1.4820.8975.9926.43
Price / Sales3.40458.96546.95119.09
Price / CashN/A44.5237.0558.92
Price / Book1.469.9310.916.06
Net Income-$25.11M-$53.38M$3.29B$266.28M
7 Day Performance-1.27%0.63%0.18%-0.32%
1 Month Performance2.99%6.31%6.26%3.44%
1 Year Performance-5.49%11.63%51.55%23.11%

LAVA Therapeutics Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
LVTX
LAVA Therapeutics
1.273 of 5 stars
$1.55
-1.3%
$2.69
+73.2%
-4.9%$41.30M$11.98M-1.4860Short Interest ↑
LFVN
Lifevantage
4.3595 of 5 stars
$12.84
-0.4%
$30.50
+137.6%
+53.3%$160.46M$200.16M18.47260News Coverage
Gap Up
MEIP
MEI Pharma
0.973 of 5 stars
$4.95
-1.1%
N/A+37.7%$160.07M$65.30M-1.04100News Coverage
Positive News
NKTX
Nkarta
2.0119 of 5 stars
$2.25
+2.0%
$13.60
+505.8%
-60.5%$159.45MN/A-1.52140
ELDN
Eledon Pharmaceuticals
1.7024 of 5 stars
$2.65
+2.9%
$10.00
+278.1%
+1.2%$157.79MN/A-2.2510News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
SLN
Silence Therapeutics
1.9548 of 5 stars
$5.21
+2.9%
$33.83
+550.0%
-72.8%$155.79M$27.17M-3.15100
HURA
TuHURA Biosciences
1.4005 of 5 stars
$3.03
+2.8%
$12.67
+317.6%
N/A$152.40MN/A0.00N/A
CTOR
Citius Oncology
0.9581 of 5 stars
$1.94
+2.6%
$3.00
+54.6%
+8.1%$152.04MN/A0.00N/A
THTX
Theratechnologies
N/A$3.26
+0.2%
N/A+166.4%$149.67M$85.87M-17.13140Short Interest ↑
MOLN
Molecular Partners
2.0197 of 5 stars
$3.71
-12.2%
$12.00
+223.9%
-39.6%$149.61M$5.65M-1.93180Analyst Forecast
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
ALTS
ALT5 Sigma
0.3949 of 5 stars
$6.92
+1.8%
N/A+76.7%$149.22M$12.53M0.00170Options Volume
Gap Down
High Trading Volume

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