IMUX vs. AGLE, LXRX, ESPR, SLRN, TBPH, PGEN, CTNM, BMEA, TERN, and VRCA
Should you be buying Immunic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Immunic include Aeglea BioTherapeutics (AGLE), Lexicon Pharmaceuticals (LXRX), Esperion Therapeutics (ESPR), Acelyrin (SLRN), Theravance Biopharma (TBPH), Precigen (PGEN), Contineum Therapeutics (CTNM), Biomea Fusion (BMEA), Terns Pharmaceuticals (TERN), and Verrica Pharmaceuticals (VRCA). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Immunic (NASDAQ:IMUX) and Aeglea BioTherapeutics (NASDAQ:AGLE) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability and risk.
Aeglea BioTherapeutics received 160 more outperform votes than Immunic when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.73% of users gave Immunic an outperform vote while only 56.57% of users gave Aeglea BioTherapeutics an outperform vote.
Immunic currently has a consensus target price of $8.50, indicating a potential upside of 591.06%. Aeglea BioTherapeutics has a consensus target price of $17.50, indicating a potential upside of ∞. Given Aeglea BioTherapeutics' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Aeglea BioTherapeutics is more favorable than Immunic.
Immunic has a beta of 1.83, meaning that its share price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Aeglea BioTherapeutics has a beta of 2.57, meaning that its share price is 157% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Aeglea BioTherapeutics has higher revenue and earnings than Immunic. Immunic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Aeglea BioTherapeutics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Immunic has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Aeglea BioTherapeutics' net margin of -22,195.36%. Aeglea BioTherapeutics' return on equity of -132.05% beat Immunic's return on equity.
In the previous week, Immunic's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Aeglea BioTherapeutics'average media sentiment score.
51.8% of Immunic shares are held by institutional investors. 3.0% of Immunic shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.6% of Aeglea BioTherapeutics shares are held by 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.
Summary
Aeglea BioTherapeutics beats Immunic on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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