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PGEN vs. CNTA, BEAM, TWST, KNSA, IRON, GLPG, CGON, ARWR, HRMY, and DNLI

Should you be buying Precigen stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Precigen include Centessa Pharmaceuticals (CNTA), Beam Therapeutics (BEAM), Twist Bioscience (TWST), Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International (KNSA), Disc Medicine (IRON), Galapagos (GLPG), CG Oncology (CGON), Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals (ARWR), Harmony Biosciences (HRMY), and Denali Therapeutics (DNLI). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

Precigen vs. Its Competitors

Centessa Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:CNTA) and Precigen (NASDAQ:PGEN) are both medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, valuation, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and institutional ownership.

Centessa Pharmaceuticals currently has a consensus price target of $28.10, indicating a potential upside of 73.78%. Precigen has a consensus price target of $6.00, indicating a potential upside of 294.74%. Given Precigen's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Precigen is more favorable than Centessa Pharmaceuticals.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Centessa Pharmaceuticals
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
11 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Precigen
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

In the previous week, Centessa Pharmaceuticals had 7 more articles in the media than Precigen. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Centessa Pharmaceuticals and 1 mentions for Precigen. Precigen's average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat Centessa Pharmaceuticals' score of 0.48 indicating that Precigen is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Centessa Pharmaceuticals Neutral
Precigen Positive

82.0% of Centessa Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.5% of Precigen shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.1% of Centessa Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 47.1% of Precigen shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Centessa Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 1.45, suggesting that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Precigen has a beta of 1.78, suggesting that its stock price is 78% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Centessa Pharmaceuticals has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Precigen's net margin of -3,728.87%. Centessa Pharmaceuticals' return on equity of -40.22% beat Precigen's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Centessa PharmaceuticalsN/A -40.22% -29.95%
Precigen -3,728.87%-279.20%-79.74%

Precigen has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Centessa Pharmaceuticals. Centessa Pharmaceuticals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Precigen, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Centessa Pharmaceuticals$6.85M315.26-$235.76M-$1.81-8.93
Precigen$3.92M114.46-$126.24M-$0.56-2.71

Summary

Centessa Pharmaceuticals beats Precigen on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding PGEN and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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PGEN vs. The Competition

MetricPrecigenMED IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$540.18M$2.93B$5.48B$9.45B
Dividend YieldN/A2.49%4.01%4.03%
P/E Ratio-2.7120.5328.3219.90
Price / Sales114.46266.81409.9885.24
Price / CashN/A41.6635.9658.29
Price / Book11.697.808.325.67
Net Income-$126.24M-$55.10M$3.24B$258.18M
7 Day Performance-17.39%4.62%3.08%2.81%
1 Month Performance2.70%17.99%10.92%13.53%
1 Year Performance-7.88%2.21%34.24%17.68%

Precigen Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PGEN
Precigen
4.0689 of 5 stars
$1.52
-16.9%
$6.00
+294.7%
-5.3%$540.18M$3.92M-2.71190Positive News
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
CNTA
Centessa Pharmaceuticals
3.3433 of 5 stars
$16.06
+2.4%
$28.10
+75.0%
+72.0%$2.14B$6.85M-8.87200Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
BEAM
Beam Therapeutics
2.0652 of 5 stars
$21.03
+1.3%
$48.75
+131.8%
-20.4%$2.11B$63.52M-4.56510Analyst Upgrade
Analyst Revision
TWST
Twist Bioscience
4.4321 of 5 stars
$34.77
-1.1%
$50.40
+45.0%
-36.3%$2.08B$312.97M-10.70990Positive News
KNSA
Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International
3.4323 of 5 stars
$28.42
-2.1%
$39.33
+38.4%
+29.2%$2.07B$423.24M-113.68220Positive News
Analyst Forecast
IRON
Disc Medicine
3.3763 of 5 stars
$59.38
+2.8%
$95.73
+61.2%
+32.2%$2.06BN/A-15.1530Analyst Forecast
GLPG
Galapagos
0.3004 of 5 stars
$32.14
+3.2%
$25.33
-21.2%
+20.4%$2.05B$288.19M0.001,310
CGON
CG Oncology
2.5111 of 5 stars
$26.90
+0.6%
$55.30
+105.6%
-25.3%$2.05B$1.14M-17.8161Gap Down
ARWR
Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals
3.9051 of 5 stars
$14.71
-12.2%
$43.71
+197.2%
-48.0%$2.03B$3.55M-10.51400High Trading Volume
HRMY
Harmony Biosciences
4.8351 of 5 stars
$35.25
+0.1%
$51.00
+44.7%
+9.7%$2.02B$714.73M13.45200News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
DNLI
Denali Therapeutics
4.5963 of 5 stars
$13.83
-1.2%
$33.71
+143.8%
-41.1%$2.01B$330.53M-5.18430Upcoming Earnings

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This page (NASDAQ:PGEN) was last updated on 7/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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