IVA vs. WVE, NRIX, ETNB, NUVB, PLRX, PAHC, STOK, TNGX, GHRS, and COGT
Should you be buying Inventiva stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Inventiva include Wave Life Sciences (WVE), Nurix Therapeutics (NRIX), 89bio (ETNB), Nuvation Bio (NUVB), Pliant Therapeutics (PLRX), Phibro Animal Health (PAHC), Stoke Therapeutics (STOK), Tango Therapeutics (TNGX), GH Research (GHRS), and Cogent Biosciences (COGT). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Wave Life Sciences (NASDAQ:WVE) and Inventiva (NASDAQ:IVA) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.
Wave Life Sciences received 330 more outperform votes than Inventiva when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 80.00% of users gave Inventiva an outperform vote while only 67.18% of users gave Wave Life Sciences an outperform vote.
Wave Life Sciences has higher revenue and earnings than Inventiva.
Wave Life Sciences has a beta of -0.99, suggesting that its share price is 199% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Inventiva has a beta of 0.95, suggesting that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Wave Life Sciences presently has a consensus price target of $11.17, suggesting a potential upside of 80.69%. Inventiva has a consensus price target of $17.00, suggesting a potential upside of 363.22%. Given Wave Life Sciences' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Inventiva is more favorable than Wave Life Sciences.
Inventiva has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Inventiva's net margin of -54.61%.
In the previous week, Wave Life Sciences had 2 more articles in the media than Inventiva. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Wave Life Sciences and 3 mentions for Inventiva. Inventiva's average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat Wave Life Sciences' score of 0.94 indicating that Wave Life Sciences is being referred to more favorably in the media.
89.7% of Wave Life Sciences shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.1% of Inventiva shares are held by institutional investors. 31.1% of Wave Life Sciences shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 32.0% of Inventiva shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Inventiva beats Wave Life Sciences on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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