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Viracta Therapeutics (VIRX) Competitors

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VIRX vs. GRI, SCNI, PTN, EVAX, AWH, VCNX, APVO, ELAB, GLMD, and TNFA

Should you be buying Viracta Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Viracta Therapeutics include GRI Bio (GRI), Scinai Immunotherapeutics (SCNI), Palatin Technologies (PTN), Evaxion Biotech A/S (EVAX), Aspira Women's Health (AWH), Vaccinex (VCNX), Aptevo Therapeutics (APVO), Elevai Labs (ELAB), Galmed Pharmaceuticals (GLMD), and TNF Pharmaceuticals (TNFA). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

Viracta Therapeutics vs.

GRI Bio (NASDAQ:GRI) and Viracta Therapeutics (NASDAQ:VIRX) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.

GRI Bio currently has a consensus target price of $115.50, suggesting a potential upside of 9,140.00%. Viracta Therapeutics has a consensus target price of $4.06, suggesting a potential upside of 23,797.06%. Given Viracta Therapeutics' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Viracta Therapeutics is more favorable than GRI Bio.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
GRI Bio
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Viracta Therapeutics
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50

Viracta Therapeutics received 25 more outperform votes than GRI Bio when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave GRI Bio an outperform vote while only 70.73% of users gave Viracta Therapeutics an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
GRI BioOutperform Votes
4
100.00%
Underperform Votes
No Votes
Viracta TherapeuticsOutperform Votes
29
70.73%
Underperform Votes
12
29.27%

In the previous week, GRI Bio had 2 more articles in the media than Viracta Therapeutics. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for GRI Bio and 0 mentions for Viracta Therapeutics. Viracta Therapeutics' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat GRI Bio's score of -0.17 indicating that Viracta Therapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
GRI Bio Neutral
Viracta Therapeutics Neutral

GRI Bio has a beta of -1.67, meaning that its stock price is 267% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Viracta Therapeutics has a beta of 1.03, meaning that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.

34.0% of GRI Bio shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.4% of Viracta Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of GRI Bio shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 10.7% of Viracta Therapeutics shares are held by 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.

GRI Bio's return on equity of -289.05% beat Viracta Therapeutics' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
GRI BioN/A -289.05% -165.01%
Viracta Therapeutics N/A -1,899.61%-114.21%

GRI Bio is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Viracta Therapeutics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
GRI BioN/AN/A-$13.04M-$11.56-0.11
Viracta TherapeuticsN/AN/A-$51.06M-$1.10-0.02

Summary

Viracta Therapeutics beats GRI Bio on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

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VIRX vs. The Competition

MetricViracta TherapeuticsPharmaceutical IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$676,000.00$6.45B$5.31B$8.42B
Dividend YieldN/A2.64%5.21%4.10%
P/E Ratio-0.029.0426.7819.69
Price / SalesN/A253.23386.97118.34
Price / CashN/A65.8538.2534.62
Price / Book0.056.406.744.50
Net Income-$51.06M$143.98M$3.23B$248.32M
7 Day PerformanceN/A1.90%1.49%-0.03%
1 Month PerformanceN/A4.01%11.47%12.72%
1 Year PerformanceN/A-3.00%16.57%7.38%

Viracta Therapeutics Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
VIRX
Viracta Therapeutics
1.1908 of 5 stars
$0.02
-8.1%
$4.06
+23,797.1%
-97.6%$676,000.00N/A-0.0220Gap Up
GRI
GRI Bio
2.413 of 5 stars
$1.40
-6.7%
$115.50
+8,150.0%
-98.5%$2.68MN/A-0.121Earnings Report
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
SCNI
Scinai Immunotherapeutics
N/A$2.82
-3.1%
N/A-22.4%$2.63M$658,000.00-0.0120
PTN
Palatin Technologies
N/A$0.09
-44.6%
N/AN/A$2.45M$350,000.00-0.0630Analyst Forecast
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
EVAX
Evaxion Biotech A/S
2.1747 of 5 stars
$1.71
-1.8%
$10.00
+484.8%
-90.3%$2.44M$3.34M-1.1860News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
AWH
Aspira Women's Health
0.9375 of 5 stars
$0.08
-12.5%
$5.50
+6,607.3%
-97.0%$2.44M$9.18M-0.07110High Trading Volume
VCNX
Vaccinex
N/A$0.92
-11.3%
N/A-87.8%$2.40M$388,000.00-0.0240Gap Down
APVO
Aptevo Therapeutics
2.1249 of 5 stars
$0.31
-3.1%
$10,952.00
+3,532,803.2%
-100.0%$2.38M$3.11M0.0050Negative News
Earnings Report
Gap Down
ELAB
Elevai Labs
0.4881 of 5 stars
$2.52
+2.0%
N/A-99.7%$2.23M$2.45M-0.0418News Coverage
Positive News
GLMD
Galmed Pharmaceuticals
0.4141 of 5 stars
$1.28
+7.6%
N/A-70.7%$2.12MN/A-0.0820Upcoming Earnings
Gap Down
TNFA
TNF Pharmaceuticals
N/A$0.20
+5.5%
N/AN/A$2.02MN/A-0.036Earnings Report
High Trading Volume

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This page (NASDAQ:VIRX) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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