CKPT vs. EQ, RPHM, KZR, TLSA, ELDN, IMMX, ANEB, CALC, BLRX, and KRON
Should you be buying Checkpoint Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Checkpoint Therapeutics include Equillium (EQ), Reneo Pharmaceuticals (RPHM), Kezar Life Sciences (KZR), Tiziana Life Sciences (TLSA), Eledon Pharmaceuticals (ELDN), Immix Biopharma (IMMX), Anebulo Pharmaceuticals (ANEB), CalciMedica (CALC), BioLineRx (BLRX), and Kronos Bio (KRON). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Checkpoint Therapeutics (NASDAQ:CKPT) and Equillium (NASDAQ:EQ) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and risk.
Checkpoint Therapeutics currently has a consensus price target of $22.60, indicating a potential upside of 1,102.13%. Equillium has a consensus price target of $3.90, indicating a potential upside of 150.00%. Given Checkpoint Therapeutics' higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Checkpoint Therapeutics is more favorable than Equillium.
22.0% of Checkpoint Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.1% of Equillium shares are held by institutional investors. 2.1% of Checkpoint Therapeutics shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 30.3% of Equillium shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Equillium has a net margin of -32.01% compared to Checkpoint Therapeutics' net margin of -50,336.89%. Checkpoint Therapeutics' return on equity of 0.00% beat Equillium's return on equity.
Checkpoint Therapeutics received 137 more outperform votes than Equillium when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 82.93% of users gave Equillium an outperform vote while only 66.28% of users gave Checkpoint Therapeutics an outperform vote.
Checkpoint Therapeutics has a beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Equillium has a beta of 1.77, meaning that its share price is 77% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Equillium has higher revenue and earnings than Checkpoint Therapeutics. Equillium is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Checkpoint Therapeutics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Checkpoint Therapeutics had 6 more articles in the media than Equillium. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Checkpoint Therapeutics and 6 mentions for Equillium. Equillium's average media sentiment score of 0.23 beat Checkpoint Therapeutics' score of 0.21 indicating that Equillium is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Equillium beats Checkpoint Therapeutics on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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