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Apricus Biosciences (APRI) Competitors

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APRI vs. ALXO, EPIX, AVTE, SLS, CELU, CRVO, BYSI, MNOV, CTXR, and IOBT

Should you be buying Apricus Biosciences stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Apricus Biosciences include ALX Oncology (ALXO), ESSA Pharma (EPIX), Aerovate Therapeutics (AVTE), SELLAS Life Sciences Group (SLS), Celularity (CELU), CervoMed (CRVO), BeyondSpring (BYSI), MediciNova (MNOV), Citius Pharmaceuticals (CTXR), and IO Biotech (IOBT). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.

Apricus Biosciences vs.

Apricus Biosciences (NASDAQ:APRI) and ALX Oncology (NASDAQ:ALXO) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and earnings.

ALX Oncology has a consensus target price of $12.50, indicating a potential upside of 832.84%. Given ALX Oncology's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe ALX Oncology is more favorable than Apricus Biosciences.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Apricus Biosciences
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
ALX Oncology
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67

In the previous week, ALX Oncology had 13 more articles in the media than Apricus Biosciences. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for ALX Oncology and 0 mentions for Apricus Biosciences. ALX Oncology's average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat Apricus Biosciences' score of 0.00 indicating that ALX Oncology is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Apricus Biosciences Neutral
ALX Oncology Neutral

Apricus Biosciences has higher revenue and earnings than ALX Oncology. Apricus Biosciences is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ALX Oncology, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Apricus Biosciences$5.76M3.42$320K-$0.99-0.71
ALX OncologyN/AN/A-$160.80M-$2.98-0.45

ALX Oncology's return on equity of -93.02% beat Apricus Biosciences' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Apricus BiosciencesN/A -216.45% -153.13%
ALX Oncology N/A -93.02%-70.67%

Apricus Biosciences has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ALX Oncology has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Apricus Biosciences received 183 more outperform votes than ALX Oncology when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.91% of users gave Apricus Biosciences an outperform vote while only 62.67% of users gave ALX Oncology an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Apricus BiosciencesOutperform Votes
230
69.91%
Underperform Votes
99
30.09%
ALX OncologyOutperform Votes
47
62.67%
Underperform Votes
28
37.33%

19.9% of Apricus Biosciences shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.0% of ALX Oncology shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of Apricus Biosciences shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 33.4% of ALX Oncology shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

ALX Oncology beats Apricus Biosciences on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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APRI vs. The Competition

MetricApricus BiosciencesPharmaceutical Preparations IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$19.72M$7.07B$5.33B$8.88B
Dividend YieldN/A8.03%4.98%4.04%
P/E Ratio-0.7111.23131.8417.44
Price / Sales3.42384.151,258.8298.06
Price / CashN/A49.2239.0436.42
Price / Book2.419.136.295.90
Net Income$320,000.00$153.49M$118.56M$224.79M

Apricus Biosciences Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
APRI
Apricus Biosciences
N/A$0.70
-1.4%
N/A+467.3%$19.72M$5.76M-0.71N/AGap Up
ALXO
ALX Oncology
3.2144 of 5 stars
$1.45
-4.0%
N/A-84.9%$80.59MN/A-0.4040Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↓
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
EPIX
ESSA Pharma
3.0226 of 5 stars
$1.80
+1.7%
N/A-63.5%$79.86MN/A-2.9050Gap Up
AVTE
Aerovate Therapeutics
1.6148 of 5 stars
$2.72
-0.7%
N/A-81.9%$79.68MN/A-0.8751Earnings Report
Short Interest ↓
SLS
SELLAS Life Sciences Group
1.3104 of 5 stars
$1.23
+6.0%
N/A+39.9%$79.13M$1M-1.3416Short Interest ↑
CELU
Celularity
0.3674 of 5 stars
$3.55
+14.9%
N/A+6.0%$78.06M$22.77M0.00220Short Interest ↑
High Trading Volume
CRVO
CervoMed
1.2035 of 5 stars
$12.54
+0.1%
N/A+13.9%$77.38M$7.14M0.004Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
Gap Down
BYSI
BeyondSpring
N/A$1.94
+3.7%
N/A+91.8%$75.72M$1.88M0.0080Gap Up
High Trading Volume
MNOV
MediciNova
0.5425 of 5 stars
$1.53
-2.5%
N/A+4.9%$75.05M$1M-9.5610News Coverage
Gap Down
CTXR
Citius Pharmaceuticals
3.2648 of 5 stars
$0.41
+7.9%
N/A-57.5%$74.37MN/A-1.7120Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↓
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
IOBT
IO Biotech
2.9339 of 5 stars
$1.10
-10.6%
N/A-9.2%$72.47MN/A-0.7630Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↓
Gap Up
High Trading Volume

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This page (NASDAQ:APRI) was last updated on 11/15/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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