KRON vs. EQ, ALRN, CARM, EGRX, MURA, KZR, MNOV, CKPT, AEON, and VHAQ
Should you be buying Kronos Bio stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kronos Bio include Equillium (EQ), Aileron Therapeutics (ALRN), Carisma Therapeutics (CARM), Eagle Pharmaceuticals (EGRX), Mural Oncology (MURA), Kezar Life Sciences (KZR), MediciNova (MNOV), Checkpoint Therapeutics (CKPT), AEON Biopharma (AEON), and Viveon Health Acquisition (VHAQ). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Equillium (NASDAQ:EQ) and Kronos Bio (NASDAQ:KRON) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk and media sentiment.
Equillium has a beta of 1.77, suggesting that its stock price is 77% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kronos Bio has a beta of 1.85, suggesting that its stock price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Equillium currently has a consensus target price of $3.90, suggesting a potential upside of 151.61%. Kronos Bio has a consensus target price of $4.13, suggesting a potential upside of 315.62%. Given Equillium's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Kronos Bio is more favorable than Equillium.
Equillium has higher revenue and earnings than Kronos Bio. Equillium is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kronos Bio, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Kronos Bio had 1 more articles in the media than Equillium. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Kronos Bio and 6 mentions for Equillium. Kronos Bio's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Equillium's score of -0.08 indicating that Equillium is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Equillium received 15 more outperform votes than Kronos Bio when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 82.50% of users gave Equillium an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave Kronos Bio an outperform vote.
Equillium has a net margin of -32.01% compared to Equillium's net margin of -1,534.11%. Kronos Bio's return on equity of -51.20% beat Equillium's return on equity.
27.0% of Equillium shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.1% of Kronos Bio shares are owned by institutional investors. 30.3% of Equillium shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 23.4% of Kronos Bio shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Equillium beats Kronos Bio on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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