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Nightstar Therapeutics (NITE) Competitors

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NITE vs. PRME, IKT, PLX, IZTC, ACHL, CRTX, BLUE, ZIVO, CYTH, and FNCH

Should you be buying Nightstar Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nightstar Therapeutics include Prime Medicine (PRME), Inhibikase Therapeutics (IKT), Protalix BioTherapeutics (PLX), Invizyne Technologies (IZTC), Achilles Therapeutics (ACHL), Cortexyme (CRTX), bluebird bio (BLUE), ZIVO Bioscience (ZIVO), Cyclo Therapeutics (CYTH), and Finch Therapeutics Group (FNCH). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.

Nightstar Therapeutics vs. Its Competitors

Prime Medicine (NYSE:PRME) and Nightstar Therapeutics (NASDAQ:NITE) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment and profitability.

Prime Medicine has a beta of 2.33, indicating that its stock price is 133% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nightstar Therapeutics has a beta of 2.84, indicating that its stock price is 184% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Prime Medicine currently has a consensus target price of $10.08, suggesting a potential upside of 219.09%. Given Prime Medicine's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Prime Medicine is more favorable than Nightstar Therapeutics.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Prime Medicine
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.75
Nightstar Therapeutics
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

In the previous week, Prime Medicine had 3 more articles in the media than Nightstar Therapeutics. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Prime Medicine and 0 mentions for Nightstar Therapeutics. Prime Medicine's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Nightstar Therapeutics' score of 0.00 indicating that Prime Medicine is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Prime Medicine Positive
Nightstar Therapeutics Neutral

Nightstar Therapeutics has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Prime Medicine. Nightstar Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Prime Medicine, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Prime Medicine$3.85M107.88-$198.13M-$1.61-1.96
Nightstar TherapeuticsN/AN/A-$36.86M-$1.26-24.97

70.4% of Prime Medicine shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.8% of Nightstar Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. 22.9% of Prime Medicine shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Nightstar Therapeutics' return on equity of -30.89% beat Prime Medicine's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Prime MedicineN/A -107.87% -74.97%
Nightstar Therapeutics N/A -30.89%-27.65%

Summary

Prime Medicine beats Nightstar Therapeutics on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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NITE vs. The Competition

MetricNightstar TherapeuticsBiological Products, Except Diagnostic IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$1.06B$202.67M$5.50B$9.02B
Dividend YieldN/AN/A5.38%4.10%
P/E Ratio-24.97N/A27.6020.30
Price / SalesN/A223.65369.54104.24
Price / CashN/A22.4436.6357.47
Price / Book5.345.618.055.68
Net Income-$36.86M-$96.61M$3.18B$249.13M

Nightstar Therapeutics Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
NITE
Nightstar Therapeutics
N/A$31.46
+0.5%
N/A+19.2%$1.06BN/A-24.9747
PRME
Prime Medicine
3.5886 of 5 stars
$2.73
+10.5%
$10.08
+269.4%
-40.8%$358.43M$3.85M-1.33234Gap Up
High Trading Volume
IKT
Inhibikase Therapeutics
1.405 of 5 stars
$1.95
flat
$6.50
+233.3%
+64.3%$144.97M$260K-0.736News Coverage
PLX
Protalix BioTherapeutics
2.9534 of 5 stars
$1.48
flat
$15.00
+913.5%
+45.8%$117.82M$59.76M-11.38200
IZTC
Invizyne Technologies
N/A$10.39
+6.8%
N/AN/A$64.96MN/A0.0029News Coverage
ACHL
Achilles Therapeutics
N/A$1.48
flat
N/AN/A$60.83MN/A-0.90250
CRTX
Cortexyme
N/A$1.65
+6.5%
N/A+128.3%$49.75MN/A-0.5655
BLUE
bluebird bio
2.1689 of 5 stars
$4.97
flat
$44.60
+797.4%
N/A$48.67M$103.95M-0.13520News Coverage
ZIVO
ZIVO Bioscience
N/A$11.99
-19.6%
N/A+69.8%$45.72M$15.85K-2.4610Gap Down
CYTH
Cyclo Therapeutics
N/A$0.72
flat
$0.95
+31.8%
N/A$23.72M$870.73K-0.809
FNCH
Finch Therapeutics Group
0.4106 of 5 stars
$13.20
flat
N/A+921.5%$21.20M$110K-1.50190

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