ALXO vs. LBPH, IRON, PRAX, EOLS, ARCT, TNGX, DNTH, ZNTL, PRTC, and AUPH
Should you be buying ALX Oncology stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ALX Oncology include Longboard Pharmaceuticals (LBPH), Disc Medicine (IRON), Praxis Precision Medicines (PRAX), Evolus (EOLS), Arcturus Therapeutics (ARCT), Tango Therapeutics (TNGX), Dianthus Therapeutics (DNTH), Zentalis Pharmaceuticals (ZNTL), PureTech Health (PRTC), and Aurinia Pharmaceuticals (AUPH). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
ALX Oncology (NASDAQ:ALXO) and Longboard Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:LBPH) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, risk, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
Longboard Pharmaceuticals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ALX Oncology, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Longboard Pharmaceuticals received 4 more outperform votes than ALX Oncology when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.33% of users gave Longboard Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 61.54% of users gave ALX Oncology an outperform vote.
98.0% of ALX Oncology shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.3% of Longboard Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. 33.4% of ALX Oncology shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.6% of Longboard Pharmaceuticals shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
ALX Oncology has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Longboard Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 1.25, indicating that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, ALX Oncology had 6 more articles in the media than Longboard Pharmaceuticals. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for ALX Oncology and 2 mentions for Longboard Pharmaceuticals. ALX Oncology's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Longboard Pharmaceuticals' score of 0.28 indicating that ALX Oncology is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Longboard Pharmaceuticals' return on equity of -49.87% beat ALX Oncology's return on equity.
ALX Oncology presently has a consensus target price of $18.83, indicating a potential upside of 32.54%. Longboard Pharmaceuticals has a consensus target price of $43.67, indicating a potential upside of 111.05%. Given Longboard Pharmaceuticals' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Longboard Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than ALX Oncology.
Summary
Longboard Pharmaceuticals beats ALX Oncology on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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