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PGEN vs. CNTA, ARQT, TARS, BEAM, SPRY, ADPT, IMCR, SDGR, EWTX, and BHVN

Should you be buying Precigen stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Precigen include Centessa Pharmaceuticals (CNTA), Arcutis Biotherapeutics (ARQT), Tarsus Pharmaceuticals (TARS), Beam Therapeutics (BEAM), ARS Pharmaceuticals (SPRY), Adaptive Biotechnologies (ADPT), Immunocore (IMCR), Schrodinger (SDGR), Edgewise Therapeutics (EWTX), and Biohaven (BHVN). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

Precigen vs. Its Competitors

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

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$6.85M256.77-$235.76M-$1.81-7.28
Precigen$3.92M109.19-$126.24M-$0.56-2.59

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, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

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%

Centessa Pharmaceuticals presently has a consensus price target of $27.89, indicating a potential upside of 111.76%. Precigen has a consensus price target of $6.00, indicating a potential upside of 313.79%. Given Precigen's higher probable upside, analysts clearly 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)
10 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 11 more articles in the media than Precigen. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Centessa Pharmaceuticals and 1 mentions for Precigen. Precigen's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Centessa Pharmaceuticals' score of 0.46 indicating that Precigen is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Centessa Pharmaceuticals Neutral
Precigen Positive

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.

Summary

Centessa Pharmaceuticals beats Precigen on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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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$419.16M$2.87B$5.52B$8.85B
Dividend YieldN/A2.70%5.36%4.13%
P/E RatioN/A21.1726.3119.76
Price / Sales109.19263.83409.02110.15
Price / CashN/A41.2925.8827.49
Price / Book11.157.237.915.36
Net Income-$126.24M-$55.05M$3.15B$248.34M
7 Day Performance-3.33%-0.74%0.95%1.25%
1 Month Performance9.85%6.27%5.25%5.41%
1 Year Performance-6.45%0.19%32.63%18.06%

Precigen Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PGEN
Precigen
3.9943 of 5 stars
$1.45
+2.1%
$6.00
+313.8%
-10.1%$419.16M$3.92M0.00190
CNTA
Centessa Pharmaceuticals
3.0997 of 5 stars
$13.00
+4.6%
$27.89
+114.5%
+45.5%$1.74B$6.85M-7.18200
ARQT
Arcutis Biotherapeutics
2.1896 of 5 stars
$14.40
+4.2%
$18.80
+30.6%
+50.8%$1.72B$196.54M-13.85150Positive News
TARS
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals
2.2744 of 5 stars
$40.60
-0.1%
$66.67
+64.2%
+49.0%$1.71B$182.95M-14.8750Positive News
BEAM
Beam Therapeutics
2.3453 of 5 stars
$16.71
-0.3%
$48.75
+191.7%
-27.4%$1.68B$63.58M-3.62510
SPRY
ARS Pharmaceuticals
3.0867 of 5 stars
$16.57
+4.9%
$31.00
+87.1%
+105.1%$1.63B$89.15M-103.5690Positive News
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ADPT
Adaptive Biotechnologies
3.2951 of 5 stars
$10.56
+1.7%
$10.57
+0.1%
+221.8%$1.60B$178.96M-11.00790Gap Down
IMCR
Immunocore
2.4477 of 5 stars
$31.12
-0.7%
$58.89
+89.2%
-7.4%$1.56B$310.20M-72.37320
SDGR
Schrodinger
2.6082 of 5 stars
$20.35
-0.5%
$32.80
+61.2%
+4.0%$1.49B$230.49M-7.74790
EWTX
Edgewise Therapeutics
3.47 of 5 stars
$14.18
-0.8%
$39.78
+180.5%
-27.2%$1.49BN/A-9.1560News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
BHVN
Biohaven
2.7658 of 5 stars
$14.44
-0.2%
$58.46
+305.0%
-59.3%$1.47BN/A-1.54239

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This page (NASDAQ:PGEN) was last updated on 7/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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