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NKGen Biotech (NKGN) Competitors

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$0.13 -0.01 (-4.72%)
As of 05/2/2025 03:41 PM Eastern

NKGN vs. CYTH, CASI, EGRX, DRRX, SNYR, LGVN, CGTX, PULM, ELEV, and PASG

Should you be buying NKGen Biotech stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NKGen Biotech include Cyclo Therapeutics (CYTH), CASI Pharmaceuticals (CASI), Eagle Pharmaceuticals (EGRX), DURECT (DRRX), Synergy CHC Corp. (Uplisting) (SNYR), Longeveron (LGVN), Cognition Therapeutics (CGTX), Pulmatrix (PULM), Elevation Oncology (ELEV), and Passage Bio (PASG). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

NKGen Biotech vs.

Cyclo Therapeutics (NASDAQ:CYTH) and NKGen Biotech (NYSE:NKGN) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and profitability.

Cyclo Therapeutics received 10 more outperform votes than NKGen Biotech when rated by MarketBeat users.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Cyclo TherapeuticsOutperform Votes
10
71.43%
Underperform Votes
4
28.57%
NKGen BiotechN/AN/A

Cyclo Therapeutics currently has a consensus target price of $0.95, indicating a potential upside of 31.83%. Given Cyclo Therapeutics' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Cyclo Therapeutics is more favorable than NKGen Biotech.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Cyclo Therapeutics
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.33
NKGen Biotech
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Cyclo Therapeutics has a beta of -0.57, meaning that its share price is 157% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NKGen Biotech has a beta of 0.83, meaning that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.

68.6% of Cyclo Therapeutics shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.2% of NKGen Biotech shares are owned by institutional investors. 29.8% of Cyclo Therapeutics shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.4% of NKGen Biotech shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Cyclo Therapeutics$870.73K27.24-$20.06M-$0.90-0.80
NKGen Biotech$80K71.41-$82.94M-$2.45-0.05

NKGen Biotech has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Cyclo Therapeutics' net margin of -2,847.19%.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Cyclo Therapeutics-2,847.19% N/A -307.16%
NKGen Biotech N/A N/A -479.36%

In the previous week, Cyclo Therapeutics had 1 more articles in the media than NKGen Biotech. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Cyclo Therapeutics and 0 mentions for NKGen Biotech. Cyclo Therapeutics' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled NKGen Biotech'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Cyclo Therapeutics Neutral
NKGen Biotech Neutral

Summary

Cyclo Therapeutics beats NKGen Biotech on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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NKGN vs. The Competition

MetricNKGen BiotechBiological Products IndustryMedical SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$5.71M$2.97B$5.55B$19.20B
Dividend YieldN/A1.87%5.09%4.00%
P/E Ratio-0.0330.5222.7133.50
Price / Sales71.41494.90405.5829.18
Price / CashN/A168.6838.1817.52
Price / Book-0.053.216.794.55
Net Income-$82.94M-$72.35M$3.22B$1.02B
7 Day Performance-6.20%13.44%3.33%2.29%
1 Month Performance-18.53%12.29%6.89%2.93%
1 Year Performance-91.11%-23.53%16.20%4.67%

NKGen Biotech Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
NKGN
NKGen Biotech
N/A$0.13
-4.7%
N/A-90.4%$5.71M$80,000.00-0.03N/A
CYTH
Cyclo Therapeutics
1.3766 of 5 stars
$0.72
flat
$0.95
+31.8%
N/A$23.72M$870,725.00-0.809
CASI
CASI Pharmaceuticals
3.4316 of 5 stars
$1.92
-1.0%
$4.00
+108.3%
-27.2%$23.61M$28.54M-0.86180Positive News
EGRX
Eagle Pharmaceuticals
N/A$1.80
+11.1%
N/A-55.2%$23.38M$257.55M0.00100Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
Gap Down
DRRX
DURECT
0.3661 of 5 stars
$0.74
-1.0%
N/A-39.6%$23.15M$2.03M-1.2180
SNYR
Synergy CHC Corp. (Uplisting)
2.6705 of 5 stars
$2.68
+7.6%
$10.00
+273.1%
N/A$22.97M$34.83M0.0040News Coverage
Positive News
LGVN
Longeveron
1.8622 of 5 stars
$1.52
+4.1%
$8.67
+470.2%
-13.8%$22.69M$2.39M-0.2420News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Up
CGTX
Cognition Therapeutics
3.4882 of 5 stars
$0.36
-2.4%
$7.13
+1,859.6%
-77.5%$22.53MN/A-0.3720Upcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
PULM
Pulmatrix
0.6969 of 5 stars
$6.16
-2.4%
N/A+214.3%$22.48M$7.81M-2.3320Upcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↓
ELEV
Elevation Oncology
2.6668 of 5 stars
$0.38
-2.0%
$3.39
+795.5%
-90.8%$22.39MN/A-0.4640Positive News
PASG
Passage Bio
1.8599 of 5 stars
$0.36
+9.1%
$7.50
+1,983.3%
-70.5%$22.37MN/A-0.31130

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