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Vital Therapies (VTL) Competitors

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VTL vs. EPRX, NKTX, MGNX, ASMB, GLSI, HURA, THTX, CTNM, ATOS, and BHST

Should you be buying Vital Therapies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vital Therapies include Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals (EPRX), Nkarta (NKTX), MacroGenics (MGNX), Assembly Biosciences (ASMB), Greenwich LifeSciences (GLSI), TuHURA Biosciences (HURA), Theratechnologies (THTX), Contineum Therapeutics (CTNM), Atossa Therapeutics (ATOS), and BioHarvest Sciences (BHST). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.

Vital Therapies vs. Its Competitors

Vital Therapies (NASDAQ:VTL) and Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:EPRX) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, profitability, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends and valuation.

Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals has a consensus target price of $10.50, indicating a potential upside of 172.02%. Given Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than Vital Therapies.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Vital Therapies
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.33

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Vital TherapiesN/AN/A-$41.47MN/AN/A
Eupraxia PharmaceuticalsN/AN/A-$28.22M-$0.76-5.08

Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals' return on equity of -219.64% beat Vital Therapies' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Vital TherapiesN/A -235.33% -182.35%
Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals N/A -219.64%-96.00%

Vital Therapies has a beta of 3.51, suggesting that its share price is 251% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Vital Therapies received 365 more outperform votes than Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 74.40% of users gave Vital Therapies an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Vital TherapiesOutperform Votes
369
74.40%
Underperform Votes
127
25.60%
Eupraxia PharmaceuticalsOutperform Votes
4
100.00%
Underperform Votes
No Votes

15.5% of Vital Therapies shares are held by institutional investors. 33.9% of Vital Therapies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals had 1 more articles in the media than Vital Therapies. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals and 0 mentions for Vital Therapies. Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals' average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat Vital Therapies' score of 0.00 indicating that Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Vital Therapies Neutral
Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals Very Positive

Summary

Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals beats Vital Therapies on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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VTL vs. The Competition

MetricVital TherapiesPharmaceutical Preparations IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$34.10M$6.87B$5.57B$8.50B
Dividend YieldN/A2.53%5.28%4.16%
P/E RatioN/A8.4326.6319.64
Price / SalesN/A262.52407.99152.17
Price / CashN/A65.8538.2534.64
Price / Book2.786.536.964.60
Net Income-$41.47M$143.25M$3.23B$248.06M

Vital Therapies Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
VTL
Vital Therapies
N/A$0.80
-4.6%
N/A-31.4%$34.10MN/A0.0010
EPRX
Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals
1.9468 of 5 stars
$3.92
-0.5%
$10.50
+167.8%
+39.9%$140.56MN/A-5.4529
NKTX
Nkarta
3.6295 of 5 stars
$1.97
+5.1%
$14.67
+646.4%
-70.1%$139.43MN/A-1.05140Analyst Forecast
MGNX
MacroGenics
3.7806 of 5 stars
$2.04
+24.2%
$5.71
+180.5%
-67.5%$129.46M$152.43M-1.30430Options Volume
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
ASMB
Assembly Biosciences
4.0301 of 5 stars
$16.81
+4.6%
$33.00
+96.3%
+11.4%$128.40M$32.15M-2.70100Short Interest ↓
Gap Down
GLSI
Greenwich LifeSciences
2.2288 of 5 stars
$9.52
+0.7%
$39.00
+309.9%
-38.0%$127.20MN/A-11.893Positive News
HURA
TuHURA Biosciences
N/A$2.81
-2.6%
$12.67
+351.6%
N/A$122.48MN/A0.00N/ANews Coverage
Analyst Downgrade
THTX
Theratechnologies
N/A$2.59
-0.4%
N/A+96.8%$119.09M$88.67M-25.90140Positive News
CTNM
Contineum Therapeutics
2.5548 of 5 stars
$4.59
+2.3%
$22.50
+390.7%
-73.3%$118.62M$50M-2.3331
ATOS
Atossa Therapeutics
1.4701 of 5 stars
$0.90
-1.1%
$6.17
+582.2%
-32.5%$116.77MN/A-4.118
BHST
BioHarvest Sciences
N/A$6.98
+0.3%
$13.67
+95.8%
N/A$114.65M$27.70M-5.59N/A

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