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Nightstar Therapeutics (NITE) Competitors

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NITE vs. PRME, PLX, IKT, CVM, ZIVO, IZTC, CRTX, JATT, ALVR, and FNCH

Should you be buying Nightstar Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nightstar Therapeutics include Prime Medicine (PRME), Protalix BioTherapeutics (PLX), Inhibikase Therapeutics (IKT), CEL-SCI (CVM), ZIVO Bioscience (ZIVO), Invizyne Technologies (IZTC), Cortexyme (CRTX), JATT Acquisition (JATT), AlloVir (ALVR), 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 investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.

Prime Medicine currently has a consensus target price of $8.92, indicating a potential upside of 119.08%. Given Prime Medicine's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly 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

70.4% of Prime Medicine shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.8% of Nightstar Therapeutics shares are owned by institutional investors. 22.7% of Prime Medicine shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Prime Medicine has a beta of 2.38, suggesting that its share price is 138% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nightstar Therapeutics has a beta of 2.84, suggesting that its share price is 184% more volatile than the S&P 500.

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 0.26 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 Neutral
Nightstar Therapeutics Neutral

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%

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$4.96M110.40-$198.13M-$1.56-2.61
Nightstar TherapeuticsN/AN/A-$36.86M-$1.26-27.22

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$1.15B$287.07M$5.79B$10.15B
Dividend YieldN/AN/A5.69%4.60%
P/E Ratio-27.22N/A74.5925.92
Price / SalesN/A420.31453.5485.33
Price / CashN/A22.4437.0859.91
Price / Book5.8210.9112.156.29
Net Income-$36.86M-$111.61M$3.28B$270.77M

Nightstar Therapeutics Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
NITE
Nightstar Therapeutics
N/A$34.30
+1.8%
N/A+40.0%$1.15BN/A-27.2247
PRME
Prime Medicine
3.2887 of 5 stars
$3.27
+4.6%
$8.92
+173.1%
-0.2%$439.38M$4.96M-1.59234
PLX
Protalix BioTherapeutics
2.5296 of 5 stars
$1.64
-0.3%
$15.00
+817.4%
+67.3%$130.36M$61.95M-12.58200Positive News
IKT
Inhibikase Therapeutics
1.4724 of 5 stars
$1.74
-1.1%
$6.50
+273.6%
+27.3%$129.66MN/A-0.656
CVM
CEL-SCI
1.5982 of 5 stars
$11.72
-3.7%
N/A-72.2%$80.62MN/A-24.4143Positive News
Short Interest ↓
ZIVO
ZIVO Bioscience
0.3554 of 5 stars
$17.00
-2.9%
N/A-3.7%$64.89M$15.85K-3.4810News Coverage
Gap Down
IZTC
Invizyne Technologies
N/A$9.70
flat
N/AN/A$60.64MN/A0.0029News Coverage
Gap Down
CRTX
Cortexyme
N/A$1.60
flat
N/A+119.0%$48.24MN/A-0.5455
JATT
JATT Acquisition
N/A$2.02
-1.0%
N/A-41.1%$34.85MN/A0.003High Trading Volume
ALVR
AlloVir
N/A$4.00
-2.0%
N/A-73.8%$20.17MN/A-0.20110High Trading Volume
FNCH
Finch Therapeutics Group
1.407 of 5 stars
$12.03
-7.5%
N/A+7.8%$19.32MN/A-1.36190Positive News
Short Interest ↓
Gap Down

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This page (NASDAQ:NITE) was last updated on 9/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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