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$4.20 -0.05 (-1.18%)
Closing price 08/22/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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UNCY vs. HRTX, MDWD, VTYX, NLTX, TRDA, OGI, IPHA, GNFT, CTMX, and EPRX

Should you be buying Unicycive Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Unicycive Therapeutics include Heron Therapeutics (HRTX), MediWound (MDWD), Ventyx Biosciences (VTYX), Neoleukin Therapeutics (NLTX), Entrada Therapeutics (TRDA), Organigram Global (OGI), Innate Pharma (IPHA), GENFIT (GNFT), CytomX Therapeutics (CTMX), and Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals (EPRX). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

Unicycive Therapeutics vs. Its Competitors

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

Heron Therapeutics has higher revenue and earnings than Unicycive Therapeutics. Heron Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Unicycive Therapeutics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Unicycive Therapeutics$680K109.08-$36.73M-$4.12-1.02
Heron Therapeutics$144.29M1.49-$13.58M-$0.02-70.00

40.4% of Unicycive Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.0% of Heron Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. 10.7% of Unicycive Therapeutics shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.9% of Heron Therapeutics shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Unicycive Therapeutics has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Heron Therapeutics' net margin of -0.62%. Heron Therapeutics' return on equity of 0.00% beat Unicycive Therapeutics' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Unicycive TherapeuticsN/A -243.13% -119.46%
Heron Therapeutics -0.62%N/A -0.40%

Unicycive Therapeutics presently has a consensus price target of $60.00, indicating a potential upside of 1,328.57%. Heron Therapeutics has a consensus price target of $4.50, indicating a potential upside of 221.43%. Given Unicycive Therapeutics' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Unicycive Therapeutics is more favorable than Heron Therapeutics.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Unicycive Therapeutics
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.33
Heron Therapeutics
1 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.33

Unicycive Therapeutics has a beta of 1.88, suggesting that its share price is 88% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Heron Therapeutics has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Unicycive Therapeutics had 27 more articles in the media than Heron Therapeutics. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Unicycive Therapeutics and 1 mentions for Heron Therapeutics. Heron Therapeutics' average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat Unicycive Therapeutics' score of 0.28 indicating that Heron Therapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Unicycive Therapeutics
4 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
20 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Heron Therapeutics
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Unicycive Therapeutics beats Heron Therapeutics on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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UNCY vs. The Competition

MetricUnicycive TherapeuticsMED IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$75.06M$2.57B$5.76B$9.58B
Dividend YieldN/A1.67%4.41%4.10%
P/E Ratio-1.0222.6131.1026.04
Price / Sales109.08554.16435.26103.29
Price / CashN/A180.4637.7358.48
Price / Book4.525.939.536.61
Net Income-$36.73M$31.83M$3.26B$265.56M
7 Day Performance-10.64%1.89%2.10%1.95%
1 Month Performance-8.89%1.33%2.82%-0.37%
1 Year Performance11.11%8.84%30.56%19.02%

Unicycive Therapeutics Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
UNCY
Unicycive Therapeutics
2.642 of 5 stars
$4.20
-1.2%
$60.00
+1,328.6%
+10.5%$75.06M$680K-1.029Trending News
Analyst Downgrade
HRTX
Heron Therapeutics
4.2078 of 5 stars
$1.28
-3.0%
$4.50
+251.6%
-25.1%$201.38M$144.29M-64.00300Positive News
High Trading Volume
MDWD
MediWound
1.4524 of 5 stars
$18.72
+0.5%
$32.25
+72.3%
-6.2%$201.35M$20.22M-8.9680Analyst Downgrade
VTYX
Ventyx Biosciences
2.4644 of 5 stars
$2.64
-6.0%
$10.00
+278.8%
+39.1%$200.38MN/A-1.5730
NLTX
Neoleukin Therapeutics
N/A$21.22
-1.1%
N/A-44.9%$199.43MN/A-6.8290
TRDA
Entrada Therapeutics
3.0966 of 5 stars
$5.02
-3.3%
$25.67
+411.3%
-61.9%$197.41M$210.78M-2.82110
OGI
Organigram Global
0.3952 of 5 stars
$1.64
+13.5%
N/A-17.5%$193.67M$117.47M16.40860High Trading Volume
IPHA
Innate Pharma
1.721 of 5 stars
$2.06
-1.9%
$11.00
+434.0%
-0.4%$193.59M$21.77M0.00220Short Interest ↑
Gap Up
GNFT
GENFIT
2.186 of 5 stars
$3.73
-1.8%
$13.00
+248.5%
-2.8%$190.01M$76.77M0.00120News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
High Trading Volume
CTMX
CytomX Therapeutics
4.1016 of 5 stars
$2.31
-1.7%
$5.75
+148.9%
+78.2%$189.46M$138.10M4.13170
EPRX
Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals
1.9886 of 5 stars
$5.32
+1.1%
$11.00
+106.8%
+103.1%$189.15MN/A-7.0029News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
Gap Up

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This page (NASDAQ:UNCY) was last updated on 8/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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