APLT vs. KALV, YMAB, VERV, AVTE, ATXS, ABUS, IGMS, TVTX, ALT, and LRMR
Should you be buying Applied Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Applied Therapeutics include KalVista Pharmaceuticals (KALV), Y-mAbs Therapeutics (YMAB), Verve Therapeutics (VERV), Aerovate Therapeutics (AVTE), Astria Therapeutics (ATXS), Arbutus Biopharma (ABUS), IGM Biosciences (IGMS), Travere Therapeutics (TVTX), Altimmune (ALT), and Larimar Therapeutics (LRMR). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Applied Therapeutics (NASDAQ:APLT) and KalVista Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:KALV) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, valuation, earnings, community ranking, risk and analyst recommendations.
98.3% of Applied Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. 8.6% of Applied Therapeutics shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.3% of KalVista Pharmaceuticals shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Applied Therapeutics had 2 more articles in the media than KalVista Pharmaceuticals. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Applied Therapeutics and 1 mentions for KalVista Pharmaceuticals. Applied Therapeutics' average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat KalVista Pharmaceuticals' score of 0.30 indicating that Applied Therapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the media.
KalVista Pharmaceuticals received 258 more outperform votes than Applied Therapeutics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.93% of users gave KalVista Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 56.35% of users gave Applied Therapeutics an outperform vote.
Applied Therapeutics presently has a consensus target price of $11.00, suggesting a potential upside of 162.53%. KalVista Pharmaceuticals has a consensus target price of $25.00, suggesting a potential upside of 109.73%. Given Applied Therapeutics' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Applied Therapeutics is more favorable than KalVista Pharmaceuticals.
Applied Therapeutics has a beta of 1.91, meaning that its share price is 91% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, KalVista Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
KalVista Pharmaceuticals has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Applied Therapeutics. KalVista Pharmaceuticals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Applied Therapeutics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
KalVista Pharmaceuticals' return on equity of -86.06% beat Applied Therapeutics' return on equity.
Summary
Applied Therapeutics beats KalVista Pharmaceuticals on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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