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XCUR vs. TCRX, ABOS, IRD, CGTX, ANEB, ATRA, IPA, ALXO, ADVM, and COYA

Should you be buying Exicure stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Exicure include TScan Therapeutics (TCRX), Acumen Pharmaceuticals (ABOS), Opus Genetics (IRD), Cognition Therapeutics (CGTX), Anebulo Pharmaceuticals (ANEB), Atara Biotherapeutics (ATRA), ImmunoPrecise Antibodies (IPA), ALX Oncology (ALXO), Adverum Biotechnologies (ADVM), and Coya Therapeutics (COYA). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

Exicure vs. Its Competitors

Exicure (NASDAQ:XCUR) and TScan Therapeutics (NASDAQ:TCRX) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, dividends and institutional ownership.

In the previous week, Exicure's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled TScan Therapeutics'average media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Exicure Neutral
TScan Therapeutics Neutral

42.8% of Exicure shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.8% of TScan Therapeutics shares are owned by institutional investors. 52.8% of Exicure shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.4% of TScan Therapeutics shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Exicure$500K52.71-$9.70M-$3.88-1.07
TScan Therapeutics$6.96M17.20-$127.50M-$1.09-1.94

TScan Therapeutics has a consensus target price of $7.80, indicating a potential upside of 269.67%. Given TScan Therapeutics' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe TScan Therapeutics is more favorable than Exicure.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Exicure
1 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.00
TScan Therapeutics
1 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67

Exicure has a net margin of 0.00% compared to TScan Therapeutics' net margin of -1,964.88%. TScan Therapeutics' return on equity of -63.33% beat Exicure's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
ExicureN/A -192.16% -84.30%
TScan Therapeutics -1,964.88%-63.33%-40.19%

Exicure has a beta of 3.76, meaning that its stock price is 276% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TScan Therapeutics has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

TScan Therapeutics beats Exicure on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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XCUR vs. The Competition

MetricExicureMED IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$26.34M$3.36B$6.13B$10.58B
Dividend YieldN/A2.28%5.66%4.69%
P/E Ratio-1.077.9365.2722.75
Price / Sales52.71459.60607.74132.59
Price / CashN/A46.3226.3031.09
Price / Book3.729.9012.536.57
Net Income-$9.70M-$52.45M$3.30B$276.78M
7 Day Performance9.45%5.22%4.28%2.42%
1 Month Performance-12.21%10.61%6.90%8.63%
1 Year Performance54.44%25.03%70.54%31.60%

Exicure Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
XCUR
Exicure
1.1835 of 5 stars
$4.17
-0.2%
N/A+54.4%$26.34M$500K-1.0750Gap Up
TCRX
TScan Therapeutics
1.9751 of 5 stars
$1.79
+2.6%
$7.80
+337.0%
-61.7%$101.30M$2.82M-1.64100
ABOS
Acumen Pharmaceuticals
3.2289 of 5 stars
$1.65
+4.4%
$7.00
+324.2%
-27.0%$99.94MN/A-0.7220News Coverage
Positive News
High Trading Volume
IRD
Opus Genetics
2.2127 of 5 stars
$1.65
-8.1%
$7.33
+345.8%
N/A$99.45M$10.99M-0.8614Short Interest ↑
CGTX
Cognition Therapeutics
2.6707 of 5 stars
$1.35
-5.9%
$2.83
+110.7%
+256.3%$98.89MN/A-2.0120
ANEB
Anebulo Pharmaceuticals
2.8827 of 5 stars
$2.40
-0.8%
$5.50
+129.2%
+21.6%$98.59MN/A-9.234Earnings Report
ATRA
Atara Biotherapeutics
4.5813 of 5 stars
$13.87
+0.4%
$21.00
+51.4%
+87.4%$97.38M$188.67M-32.25330News Coverage
IPA
ImmunoPrecise Antibodies
1.1135 of 5 stars
$2.10
+8.5%
$4.00
+90.9%
+235.2%$96.68M$17.59M-3.0880Positive News
Gap Up
ALXO
ALX Oncology
3.6589 of 5 stars
$1.80
+2.6%
$3.30
+83.8%
+29.8%$96.12MN/A-0.8240News Coverage
ADVM
Adverum Biotechnologies
3.9645 of 5 stars
$4.51
-2.0%
$19.75
+338.3%
-28.4%$94.49M$1M-0.57190News Coverage
Gap Down
COYA
Coya Therapeutics
2.7025 of 5 stars
$5.63
-0.5%
$16.20
+187.7%
-16.0%$94.16M$423.45K-4.546Analyst Forecast

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This page (NASDAQ:XCUR) was last updated on 10/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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