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Poolbeg Pharma (POLB) Competitors

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As of 02/21/2025 11:46 AM Eastern

POLB vs. SCLP, MPH, OBI, ORPH, REDX, ETX, TRX, FUM, SBTX, and COS

Should you be buying Poolbeg Pharma stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Poolbeg Pharma include Scancell (SCLP), Mereo BioPharma Group plc (MPH.L) (MPH), Ondine Biomedical (OBI), Open Orphan (ORPH), Redx Pharma (REDX), e-therapeutics (ETX), Tissue Regenix Group (TRX), Futura Medical (FUM), SkinBioTherapeutics (SBTX), and Collagen Solutions plc (COS.L) (COS). These companies are all part of the "biotechnology" industry.

Poolbeg Pharma vs.

Scancell (LON:SCLP) and Poolbeg Pharma (LON:POLB) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.

Scancell is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Poolbeg Pharma, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
ScancellN/AN/A-£6.75M-£0.65-12.73
Poolbeg PharmaN/AN/A-£4.50B-£851.820.00

Scancell's return on equity of 98.74% beat Poolbeg Pharma's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
ScancellN/A 98.74% -45.28%
Poolbeg Pharma N/A -32.56%-21.33%

46.5% of Scancell shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.2% of Poolbeg Pharma shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.0% of Scancell shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 24.7% of Poolbeg Pharma shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

In the previous week, Scancell had 2 more articles in the media than Poolbeg Pharma. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Scancell and 1 mentions for Poolbeg Pharma. Poolbeg Pharma's average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat Scancell's score of 0.26 indicating that Poolbeg Pharma is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Scancell
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Poolbeg Pharma
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Scancell has a beta of 0.35, meaning that its stock price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Poolbeg Pharma has a beta of 2.11, meaning that its stock price is 111% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Scancell received 187 more outperform votes than Poolbeg Pharma when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.50% of users gave Scancell an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Poolbeg Pharma an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
ScancellOutperform Votes
187
74.50%
Underperform Votes
64
25.50%
Poolbeg PharmaOutperform Votes
No Votes
Underperform Votes
1
100.00%

Summary

Scancell beats Poolbeg Pharma on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

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POLB vs. The Competition

MetricPoolbeg PharmaBiotechnology IndustryMedical SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£20.30M£117.95M£5.84B£2.64B
Dividend YieldN/A3.69%4.75%4.98%
P/E Ratio0.003.2026.04162.45
Price / SalesN/A4,826.69447.46313,322.68
Price / Cash2.1113.0138.0128.12
Price / Book0.0047.077.645.16
Net Income-£4.50B-£87.82M£3.18B£5.75B
7 Day Performance-18.13%0.34%-2.00%-0.99%
1 Month Performance-15.60%3.63%-0.44%-0.80%
1 Year Performance-61.84%99.15%16.44%39.55%

Poolbeg Pharma Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
POLB
Poolbeg Pharma
N/AGBX 3.95
-17.7%
N/A-64.1%£20.30MN/A0.0012News Coverage
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
SCLP
Scancell
N/AGBX 8.80
-1.1%
N/A-26.2%£91.14MN/A-13.4951News Coverage
Gap Down
MPH
Mereo BioPharma Group plc (MPH.L)
N/AN/AN/AN/A£89.76MN/A-0.2150Gap Down
OBI
Ondine Biomedical
N/AC$11.50
-4.2%
N/A+11.2%C$82.69MC$48,596.29-3.47N/AGap Up
ORPH
Open Orphan
N/AN/AN/AN/A£67.09M£34.71M-25.30179Positive News
REDX
Redx Pharma
N/AN/AN/AN/A£58.35M£4.20M-150.00101News Coverage
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
ETX
e-therapeutics
N/AN/AN/AN/A£52.59M£295,000.00-450.0035Positive News
High Trading Volume
TRX
Tissue Regenix Group
N/AGBX 52
-1.0%
N/A-31.6%£46.88M£31.98M-53.68120
FUM
Futura Medical
N/AGBX 14.80
+5.7%
N/A-68.4%£46.13M£8.68M-12.2112Gap Down
SBTX
SkinBioTherapeutics
N/AGBX 20.13
+0.6%
N/A+96.2%£45.97M£1.56M-12.3811High Trading Volume
COS
Collagen Solutions plc (COS.L)
N/AN/AN/AN/A£30.99M£4.01M-8.283,350

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This page (LON:POLB) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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