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Scilex (SCLX) Competitors

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$4.74 +0.13 (+2.82%)
As of 04/30/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

SCLX vs. GLSI, FTLF, EDIT, THTX, LYEL, TARA, CGEN, SLS, NMRA, and SCPH

Should you be buying Scilex stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Scilex include Greenwich LifeSciences (GLSI), FitLife Brands (FTLF), Editas Medicine (EDIT), Theratechnologies (THTX), Lyell Immunopharma (LYEL), Protara Therapeutics (TARA), Compugen (CGEN), SELLAS Life Sciences Group (SLS), Neumora Therapeutics (NMRA), and scPharmaceuticals (SCPH). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

Scilex vs.

Scilex (NASDAQ:SCLX) and Greenwich LifeSciences (NASDAQ:GLSI) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, valuation and community ranking.

Scilex has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Greenwich LifeSciences has a beta of 1.76, indicating that its share price is 76% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Greenwich LifeSciences has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Scilex's net margin of -159.10%. Scilex's return on equity of 0.00% beat Greenwich LifeSciences' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Scilex-159.10% N/A -93.65%
Greenwich LifeSciences N/A -185.12%-164.27%

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Scilex$56.59M0.58-$114.33M-$29.02-0.16
Greenwich LifeSciencesN/AN/A-$8.89M-$1.20-8.42

Scilex presently has a consensus target price of $455.00, suggesting a potential upside of 9,499.16%. Greenwich LifeSciences has a consensus target price of $39.00, suggesting a potential upside of 286.14%. Given Scilex's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Scilex is more favorable than Greenwich LifeSciences.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Scilex
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.60
Greenwich LifeSciences
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

In the previous week, Greenwich LifeSciences had 5 more articles in the media than Scilex. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Greenwich LifeSciences and 3 mentions for Scilex. Scilex's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Greenwich LifeSciences' score of 0.57 indicating that Scilex is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Scilex
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Greenwich LifeSciences
3 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

69.7% of Scilex shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.2% of Greenwich LifeSciences shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.7% of Scilex shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 51.7% of Greenwich LifeSciences shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Scilex received 4 more outperform votes than Greenwich LifeSciences when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 86.67% of users gave Scilex an outperform vote while only 47.37% of users gave Greenwich LifeSciences an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
ScilexOutperform Votes
13
86.67%
Underperform Votes
2
13.33%
Greenwich LifeSciencesOutperform Votes
9
47.37%
Underperform Votes
10
52.63%

Summary

Scilex beats Greenwich LifeSciences on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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SCLX vs. The Competition

MetricScilexBiological Products IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$32.08M$3.00B$5.56B$7.83B
Dividend YieldN/A1.89%5.11%4.22%
P/E Ratio-5.7130.4222.4818.48
Price / Sales0.58498.92394.56103.59
Price / CashN/A168.6838.1834.62
Price / Book-4.313.206.774.25
Net Income-$114.33M-$72.35M$3.22B$248.23M
7 Day Performance7.00%1.46%1.48%0.89%
1 Month Performance-42.98%8.79%3.99%3.53%
1 Year Performance-84.17%-22.36%16.15%5.08%

Scilex Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SCLX
Scilex
3.1967 of 5 stars
$4.74
+2.8%
$455.00
+9,499.2%
-84.1%$32.08M$56.59M-5.7180Positive News
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
GLSI
Greenwich LifeSciences
1.8436 of 5 stars
$10.04
+0.6%
$39.00
+288.4%
-18.7%$133.27MN/A-12.553Short Interest ↑
FTLF
FitLife Brands
4.1634 of 5 stars
$14.42
+0.8%
$20.50
+42.2%
+8.9%$132.94M$64.47M17.0720Short Interest ↑
EDIT
Editas Medicine
4.1665 of 5 stars
$1.58
+2.6%
$6.54
+313.8%
-68.3%$132.26M$32.31M-0.62230Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Upgrade
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
THTX
Theratechnologies
N/A$2.87
+3.6%
N/A+118.5%$131.96M$88.67M-28.70140Short Interest ↑
LYEL
Lyell Immunopharma
3.3977 of 5 stars
$0.44
-2.0%
$1.00
+126.8%
-78.1%$130.24M$61,000.00-0.56270Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
Positive News
TARA
Protara Therapeutics
2.2195 of 5 stars
$3.52
-18.5%
$20.40
+479.5%
+17.4%$129.42MN/A-1.2530Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume
CGEN
Compugen
2.0633 of 5 stars
$1.44
-2.7%
$4.00
+177.8%
-17.1%$128.50M$27.86M72.0070Positive News
Gap Up
SLS
SELLAS Life Sciences Group
0.7481 of 5 stars
$1.41
+0.7%
N/A+25.0%$128.09M$1M-2.0410
NMRA
Neumora Therapeutics
3.1583 of 5 stars
$0.76
+0.7%
$9.29
+1,117.6%
-91.4%$123.35MN/A-0.41108
SCPH
scPharmaceuticals
3.7171 of 5 stars
$2.45
-2.4%
$14.00
+471.4%
-43.0%$123.20M$36.33M-1.2930News Coverage
Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:SCLX) was last updated on 5/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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