TLPH vs. ALRN, CKPT, ANVS, BTAI, VHAQ, MNOV, BLRX, LTRN, AFMD, and RLYB
Should you be buying Talphera stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Talphera include Aileron Therapeutics (ALRN), Checkpoint Therapeutics (CKPT), Annovis Bio (ANVS), BioXcel Therapeutics (BTAI), Viveon Health Acquisition (VHAQ), MediciNova (MNOV), BioLineRx (BLRX), Lantern Pharma (LTRN), Affimed (AFMD), and Rallybio (RLYB). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Aileron Therapeutics (NASDAQ:ALRN) and Talphera (NASDAQ:TLPH) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, risk, media sentiment and earnings.
Aileron Therapeutics has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Talphera. Talphera is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Aileron Therapeutics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Aileron Therapeutics has a beta of 2.32, indicating that its share price is 132% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Talphera has a beta of 0.46, indicating that its share price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Aileron Therapeutics currently has a consensus target price of $19.00, indicating a potential upside of 493.75%. Talphera has a consensus target price of $4.50, indicating a potential upside of 336.89%. Given Talphera's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Aileron Therapeutics is more favorable than Talphera.
In the previous week, Aileron Therapeutics had 5 more articles in the media than Talphera. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Aileron Therapeutics and 2 mentions for Talphera. Aileron Therapeutics' average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat Talphera's score of 0.85 indicating that Talphera is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
90.9% of Aileron Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.7% of Talphera shares are held by institutional investors. 5.6% of Aileron Therapeutics shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Talphera shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Talphera's return on equity of -95.55% beat Aileron Therapeutics' return on equity.
Aileron Therapeutics received 209 more outperform votes than Talphera when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Talphera an outperform vote while only 66.98% of users gave Aileron Therapeutics an outperform vote.
Summary
Aileron Therapeutics beats Talphera on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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