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XBIO vs. CING, HOOK, LGVN, LPCN, GOVX, LEXX, DRRX, LPTX, COCP, and PMN

Should you be buying Xenetic Biosciences stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Xenetic Biosciences include Cingulate (CING), Hookipa Pharma (HOOK), Longeveron (LGVN), Lipocine (LPCN), GeoVax Labs (GOVX), Lexaria Bioscience (LEXX), DURECT (DRRX), Leap Therapeutics (LPTX), Cocrystal Pharma (COCP), and ProMIS Neurosciences (PMN). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.

Xenetic Biosciences vs. Its Competitors

Xenetic Biosciences (NASDAQ:XBIO) and Cingulate (NASDAQ:CING) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings and dividends.

15.1% of Xenetic Biosciences shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.3% of Cingulate shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.7% of Xenetic Biosciences shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.3% of Cingulate shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Xenetic Biosciences received 161 more outperform votes than Cingulate when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 76.47% of users gave Cingulate an outperform vote while only 66.92% of users gave Xenetic Biosciences an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Xenetic BiosciencesOutperform Votes
174
66.92%
Underperform Votes
86
33.08%
CingulateOutperform Votes
13
76.47%
Underperform Votes
4
23.53%

Xenetic Biosciences has a beta of 2.28, indicating that its stock price is 128% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cingulate has a beta of -0.85, indicating that its stock price is 185% less volatile than the S&P 500.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Xenetic Biosciences$2.58M1.86-$4.14M-$2.38-1.31
CingulateN/AN/A-$23.53M-$8.48-0.50

In the previous week, Cingulate had 1 more articles in the media than Xenetic Biosciences. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Cingulate and 1 mentions for Xenetic Biosciences. Xenetic Biosciences' average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat Cingulate's score of 0.44 indicating that Xenetic Biosciences is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Xenetic Biosciences Very Positive
Cingulate Neutral

Cingulate has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Xenetic Biosciences' net margin of -161.63%. Xenetic Biosciences' return on equity of -49.51% beat Cingulate's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Xenetic Biosciences-161.63% -49.51% -43.99%
Cingulate N/A -570.20%-236.15%

Cingulate has a consensus target price of $26.00, suggesting a potential upside of 519.05%. Given Cingulate's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Cingulate is more favorable than Xenetic Biosciences.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Xenetic Biosciences
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Cingulate
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Summary

Xenetic Biosciences beats Cingulate on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding XBIO and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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XBIO vs. The Competition

MetricXenetic BiosciencesPharmaceutical IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$4.80M$6.88B$5.57B$8.51B
Dividend YieldN/A2.49%5.27%4.16%
P/E Ratio-1.178.4626.7519.65
Price / Sales1.86262.48404.17152.19
Price / CashN/A65.8538.2534.64
Price / Book0.496.526.964.59
Net Income-$4.14M$143.26M$3.23B$248.23M
7 Day Performance1.14%-0.21%-1.23%-1.07%
1 Month Performance3.32%10.62%6.34%2.59%
1 Year Performance-19.43%3.63%33.04%13.50%

Xenetic Biosciences Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
XBIO
Xenetic Biosciences
1.9667 of 5 stars
$3.11
-4.0%
N/A-19.2%$4.80M$2.58M-1.174Positive News
Gap Down
CING
Cingulate
2.1 of 5 stars
$4.54
+4.1%
$26.00
+472.7%
+535.3%$19.28MN/A-0.5420Short Interest ↑
Gap Down
HOOK
Hookipa Pharma
3.1433 of 5 stars
$1.53
-1.9%
$4.50
+194.1%
-80.9%$18.65M$9.35M-0.4156
LGVN
Longeveron
3.4977 of 5 stars
$1.27
+3.3%
$8.67
+582.4%
-59.2%$18.36M$2.23M-0.2020Gap Up
LPCN
Lipocine
2.1477 of 5 stars
$3.37
+6.3%
$9.00
+167.1%
-67.1%$18.03M$3.67M-4.4310News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
GOVX
GeoVax Labs
3.3788 of 5 stars
$1.18
+5.4%
$11.10
+840.7%
-14.2%$17.93M$5.59M-0.3210News Coverage
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
LEXX
Lexaria Bioscience
2.5105 of 5 stars
$1.00
+1.5%
$7.00
+600.0%
-68.4%$17.56M$525.92K-2.007News Coverage
Gap Up
DRRX
DURECT
1.3338 of 5 stars
$0.55
+2.2%
N/A-62.7%$17.16M$1.86M-0.9180
LPTX
Leap Therapeutics
2.7039 of 5 stars
$0.41
+4.5%
$4.92
+1,097.4%
-80.6%$17.02MN/A-0.2140Positive News
Gap Down
COCP
Cocrystal Pharma
2.6215 of 5 stars
$1.65
+1.2%
$7.00
+324.2%
-35.6%$16.78MN/A-0.8910Short Interest ↑
PMN
ProMIS Neurosciences
2.3248 of 5 stars
$0.51
+5.6%
$4.50
+791.1%
-67.8%$16.51MN/A-5.055Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:XBIO) was last updated on 6/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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