XBIO vs. LIXT, SHPH, ENVB, HILS, TFFP, ADIL, PULM, AIMD, PCSA, and CVKD
Should you be buying Xenetic Biosciences stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Xenetic Biosciences include Lixte Biotechnology (LIXT), Shuttle Pharmaceuticals (SHPH), Enveric Biosciences (ENVB), Hillstream BioPharma (HILS), TFF Pharmaceuticals (TFFP), Adial Pharmaceuticals (ADIL), Pulmatrix (PULM), Ainos (AIMD), Processa Pharmaceuticals (PCSA), and Cadrenal Therapeutics (CVKD). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Xenetic Biosciences (NASDAQ:XBIO) and Lixte Biotechnology (NASDAQ:LIXT) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
Xenetic Biosciences has a beta of 2.56, suggesting that its share price is 156% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lixte Biotechnology has a beta of -0.23, suggesting that its share price is 123% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Lixte Biotechnology had 1 more articles in the media than Xenetic Biosciences. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Lixte Biotechnology and 0 mentions for Xenetic Biosciences. Xenetic Biosciences' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Lixte Biotechnology'saverage media sentiment score.
15.1% of Xenetic Biosciences shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.1% of Lixte Biotechnology shares are held by institutional investors. 9.0% of Xenetic Biosciences shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.5% of Lixte Biotechnology shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Xenetic Biosciences received 174 more outperform votes than Lixte Biotechnology when rated by MarketBeat users.
Lixte Biotechnology has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Xenetic Biosciences' net margin of -162.84%. Xenetic Biosciences' return on equity of -36.43% beat Lixte Biotechnology's return on equity.
Xenetic Biosciences has higher revenue and earnings than Lixte Biotechnology. Xenetic Biosciences is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lixte Biotechnology, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Xenetic Biosciences beats Lixte Biotechnology on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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