CUE vs. ASRT, ALLK, CTXR, GNLX, IOBT, PMVP, BYSI, ADAG, ORMP, and RLMD
Should you be buying Cue Biopharma stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cue Biopharma include Assertio (ASRT), Allakos (ALLK), Citius Pharmaceuticals (CTXR), Genelux (GNLX), IO Biotech (IOBT), PMV Pharmaceuticals (PMVP), BeyondSpring (BYSI), Adagene (ADAG), Oramed Pharmaceuticals (ORMP), and Relmada Therapeutics (RLMD). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Cue Biopharma (NASDAQ:CUE) and Assertio (NASDAQ:ASRT) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Cue Biopharma has a beta of 1.98, suggesting that its stock price is 98% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Assertio has a beta of 1, suggesting that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Cue Biopharma currently has a consensus target price of $8.00, suggesting a potential upside of 323.28%. Assertio has a consensus target price of $5.50, suggesting a potential upside of 421.33%. Given Assertio's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Assertio is more favorable than Cue Biopharma.
Cue Biopharma has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Assertio. Cue Biopharma is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Assertio, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
35.0% of Cue Biopharma shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.0% of Assertio shares are held by institutional investors. 10.2% of Cue Biopharma shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of Assertio shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Cue Biopharma received 39 more outperform votes than Assertio when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.09% of users gave Assertio an outperform vote while only 51.81% of users gave Cue Biopharma an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Assertio had 10 more articles in the media than Cue Biopharma. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Assertio and 2 mentions for Cue Biopharma. Cue Biopharma's average media sentiment score of 1.29 beat Assertio's score of 0.48 indicating that Cue Biopharma is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Assertio has a net margin of -218.28% compared to Cue Biopharma's net margin of -924.10%. Assertio's return on equity of 6.30% beat Cue Biopharma's return on equity.
Summary
Assertio beats Cue Biopharma on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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