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Cogent Biosciences (UMRX) Competitors

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UMRX vs. PCRX, HROW, SYRE, WVE, AUPH, OPK, ELVN, RCUS, MLYS, and AKBA

Should you be buying Cogent Biosciences stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cogent Biosciences include Pacira BioSciences (PCRX), Harrow (HROW), Spyre Therapeutics (SYRE), Wave Life Sciences (WVE), Aurinia Pharmaceuticals (AUPH), OPKO Health (OPK), Enliven Therapeutics (ELVN), Arcus Biosciences (RCUS), Mineralys Therapeutics (MLYS), and Akebia Therapeutics (AKBA). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.

Cogent Biosciences vs. Its Competitors

Cogent Biosciences (NASDAQ:UMRX) and Pacira BioSciences (NASDAQ:PCRX) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations and risk.

Pacira BioSciences has a net margin of -13.07% compared to Cogent Biosciences' net margin of -96.84%. Pacira BioSciences' return on equity of 13.42% beat Cogent Biosciences' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Cogent Biosciences-96.84% -87.78% -52.14%
Pacira BioSciences -13.07%13.42%7.19%

26.4% of Cogent Biosciences shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.7% of Pacira BioSciences shares are owned by institutional investors. 31.5% of Cogent Biosciences shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.4% of Pacira BioSciences shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

In the previous week, Pacira BioSciences had 8 more articles in the media than Cogent Biosciences. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Pacira BioSciences and 0 mentions for Cogent Biosciences. Pacira BioSciences' average media sentiment score of 1.36 beat Cogent Biosciences' score of 0.00 indicating that Pacira BioSciences is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Cogent Biosciences Neutral
Pacira BioSciences Positive

Pacira BioSciences received 646 more outperform votes than Cogent Biosciences when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.60% of users gave Pacira BioSciences an outperform vote while only 68.38% of users gave Cogent Biosciences an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Cogent BiosciencesOutperform Votes
186
68.38%
Underperform Votes
86
31.62%
Pacira BioSciencesOutperform Votes
832
71.60%
Underperform Votes
330
28.40%

Pacira BioSciences has a consensus target price of $26.44, suggesting a potential upside of 9.09%. Given Pacira BioSciences' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Pacira BioSciences is more favorable than Cogent Biosciences.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Cogent Biosciences
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Pacira BioSciences
1 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.33

Pacira BioSciences has higher revenue and earnings than Cogent Biosciences. Pacira BioSciences is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cogent Biosciences, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Cogent Biosciences$22.50M13.36-$31.83M-$1.04-6.81
Pacira BioSciences$702.77M1.60$41.96M-$2.28-10.63

Cogent Biosciences has a beta of 3.93, meaning that its stock price is 293% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pacira BioSciences has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Pacira BioSciences beats Cogent Biosciences on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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UMRX vs. The Competition

MetricCogent BiosciencesPharmaceutical Preparations IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$300.68M$6.87B$5.57B$8.50B
Dividend YieldN/A2.52%5.28%4.16%
P/E Ratio-9.328.4326.6319.64
Price / Sales13.36262.52407.99152.17
Price / CashN/A65.8538.2534.64
Price / Book6.816.536.964.60
Net Income-$31.83M$143.25M$3.23B$248.06M

Cogent Biosciences Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
UMRX
Cogent Biosciences
N/A$7.08
-1.9%
N/A-20.1%$300.68M$22.50M-9.3272Gap Down
PCRX
Pacira BioSciences
2.4611 of 5 stars
$24.87
-2.2%
$26.44
+6.3%
-14.6%$1.15B$702.77M-12.25720Positive News
HROW
Harrow
2.3619 of 5 stars
$31.17
+3.4%
$61.25
+96.5%
+69.0%$1.14B$212.86M-33.16182News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
Gap Up
SYRE
Spyre Therapeutics
2.4117 of 5 stars
$18.56
+8.2%
$53.40
+187.7%
-46.6%$1.12B$890K-2.4873Positive News
Gap Down
WVE
Wave Life Sciences
4.2505 of 5 stars
$7.23
+2.6%
$21.17
+192.8%
+7.3%$1.11B$104.94M-6.51240News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
Analyst Revision
Gap Down
AUPH
Aurinia Pharmaceuticals
3.288 of 5 stars
$8.15
+0.1%
$11.50
+41.1%
+52.9%$1.10B$247.30M-54.33300Positive News
Analyst Revision
OPK
OPKO Health
4.4718 of 5 stars
$1.38
flat
$2.75
+99.3%
+3.9%$1.09B$689.41M-7.264,200
ELVN
Enliven Therapeutics
2.5058 of 5 stars
$21.70
+6.7%
$37.25
+71.7%
-0.5%$1.06BN/A-11.4250News Coverage
Insider Trade
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
RCUS
Arcus Biosciences
2.3041 of 5 stars
$10.04
+1.9%
$24.13
+140.4%
-45.6%$1.06B$141M-3.19500Options Volume
Analyst Revision
Gap Up
MLYS
Mineralys Therapeutics
2.7967 of 5 stars
$16.03
-1.0%
$38.00
+137.1%
+12.8%$1.04BN/A-4.4028Analyst Forecast
Gap Down
AKBA
Akebia Therapeutics
4.0121 of 5 stars
$3.92
+2.3%
$6.75
+72.2%
+217.9%$1.03B$184.91M-17.04430High Trading Volume

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This page (NASDAQ:UMRX) was last updated on 6/14/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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