PPBT vs. KPRX, RDHL, ERNA, PIRS, IMNN, HUGE, EDSA, AKTX, MNPR, and TNXP
Should you be buying Purple Biotech stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Purple Biotech include Kiora Pharmaceuticals (KPRX), RedHill Biopharma (RDHL), Eterna Therapeutics (ERNA), Pieris Pharmaceuticals (PIRS), Imunon (IMNN), FSD Pharma (HUGE), Edesa Biotech (EDSA), Akari Therapeutics (AKTX), Monopar Therapeutics (MNPR), and Tonix Pharmaceuticals (TNXP). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Purple Biotech (NASDAQ:PPBT) and Kiora Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:KPRX) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability and earnings.
Purple Biotech and Kiora Pharmaceuticals both received 12 outperform votes by MarketBeat users. However, 92.31% of users gave Purple Biotech an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave Kiora Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote.
9.6% of Purple Biotech shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.0% of Kiora Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.0% of Purple Biotech shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Kiora Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by 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.
Kiora Pharmaceuticals' return on equity of 17.90% beat Purple Biotech's return on equity.
Purple Biotech currently has a consensus price target of $9.00, suggesting a potential upside of 1,524.55%. Given Purple Biotech's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Purple Biotech is more favorable than Kiora Pharmaceuticals.
Purple Biotech has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kiora Pharmaceuticals has a beta of -0.18, meaning that its stock price is 118% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Kiora Pharmaceuticals had 1 more articles in the media than Purple Biotech. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Kiora Pharmaceuticals and 0 mentions for Purple Biotech. Purple Biotech's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Kiora Pharmaceuticals' score of -0.52 indicating that Purple Biotech is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Purple Biotech beats Kiora Pharmaceuticals on 6 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
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