BRNS vs. NKTX, SBTX, URGN, ANL, NBTX, NLTX, AVIR, EPIX, KMDA, and XOMA
Should you be buying Barinthus Biotherapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Barinthus Biotherapeutics include Nkarta (NKTX), Silverback Therapeutics (SBTX), UroGen Pharma (URGN), Adlai Nortye (ANL), Nanobiotix (NBTX), Neoleukin Therapeutics (NLTX), Atea Pharmaceuticals (AVIR), ESSA Pharma (EPIX), Kamada (KMDA), and XOMA (XOMA). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Nkarta (NASDAQ:NKTX) and Barinthus Biotherapeutics (NASDAQ:BRNS) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, earnings, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Nkarta currently has a consensus target price of $17.83, suggesting a potential upside of 162.64%. Barinthus Biotherapeutics has a consensus target price of $8.00, suggesting a potential upside of 318.85%. Given Nkarta's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Barinthus Biotherapeutics is more favorable than Nkarta.
Nkarta received 42 more outperform votes than Barinthus Biotherapeutics when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Barinthus Biotherapeutics an outperform vote while only 72.73% of users gave Nkarta an outperform vote.
80.5% of Nkarta shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 25.2% of Barinthus Biotherapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. 8.7% of Nkarta shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.0% of Barinthus Biotherapeutics shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Barinthus Biotherapeutics had 1 more articles in the media than Nkarta. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Barinthus Biotherapeutics and 2 mentions for Nkarta. Nkarta's average media sentiment score of 1.60 beat Barinthus Biotherapeutics' score of 0.68 indicating that Barinthus Biotherapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Barinthus Biotherapeutics' return on equity of -34.13% beat Nkarta's return on equity.
Barinthus Biotherapeutics has higher revenue and earnings than Nkarta. Nkarta is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Barinthus Biotherapeutics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Nkarta has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Barinthus Biotherapeutics has a beta of -0.45, meaning that its stock price is 145% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Barinthus Biotherapeutics beats Nkarta on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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