XLO vs. ALIM, PRQR, CNTX, SGMT, CYBN, RAPT, INCR, YMTX, RZLT, and IMAB
Should you be buying Xilio Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Xilio Therapeutics include Alimera Sciences (ALIM), ProQR Therapeutics (PRQR), Context Therapeutics (CNTX), Sagimet Biosciences (SGMT), Cybin (CYBN), RAPT Therapeutics (RAPT), InterCure (INCR), Yumanity Therapeutics (YMTX), Rezolute (RZLT), and I-Mab (IMAB). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Alimera Sciences (NASDAQ:ALIM) and Xilio Therapeutics (NASDAQ:XLO) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Alimera Sciences currently has a consensus target price of $8.00, indicating a potential upside of 162.30%. Given Xilio Therapeutics' higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Alimera Sciences is more favorable than Xilio Therapeutics.
Alimera Sciences has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Xilio Therapeutics has a beta of -0.13, suggesting that its stock price is 113% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Xilio Therapeutics has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Xilio Therapeutics' net margin of -23.74%. Xilio Therapeutics' return on equity of -53.49% beat Alimera Sciences' return on equity.
Alimera Sciences has higher revenue and earnings than Xilio Therapeutics. Alimera Sciences is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Xilio Therapeutics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
99.8% of Alimera Sciences shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.3% of Xilio Therapeutics shares are owned by institutional investors. 31.4% of Alimera Sciences shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.2% of Xilio Therapeutics shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Alimera Sciences received 345 more outperform votes than Xilio Therapeutics when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.33% of users gave Xilio Therapeutics an outperform vote while only 57.70% of users gave Alimera Sciences an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Alimera Sciences had 2 more articles in the media than Xilio Therapeutics. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Alimera Sciences and 1 mentions for Xilio Therapeutics. Xilio Therapeutics' average media sentiment score of 1.58 beat Alimera Sciences' score of 1.38 indicating that Alimera Sciences is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Alimera Sciences beats Xilio Therapeutics on 13 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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