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Aura Biosciences (AURA) Competitors

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$8.95 -0.08 (-0.89%)
(As of 11/22/2024 ET)

AURA vs. UROV, PRQR, URGN, PSNL, IVA, GLPG, ARVN, XNCR, RXRX, and IMCR

Should you be buying Aura Biosciences stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aura Biosciences include Urovant Sciences (UROV), ProQR Therapeutics (PRQR), UroGen Pharma (URGN), Personalis (PSNL), Inventiva (IVA), Galapagos (GLPG), Arvinas (ARVN), Xencor (XNCR), Recursion Pharmaceuticals (RXRX), and Immunocore (IMCR). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.

Aura Biosciences vs.

Aura Biosciences (NASDAQ:AURA) and Urovant Sciences (NASDAQ:UROV) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, valuation, dividends and risk.

Aura Biosciences has a beta of 0.33, suggesting that its share price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Urovant Sciences has a beta of 2.36, suggesting that its share price is 136% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Urovant Sciences' return on equity of 0.00% beat Aura Biosciences' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Aura BiosciencesN/A -41.57% -36.43%
Urovant Sciences N/A N/A -162.90%

Urovant Sciences received 55 more outperform votes than Aura Biosciences when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.16% of users gave Aura Biosciences an outperform vote while only 57.35% of users gave Urovant Sciences an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Aura BiosciencesOutperform Votes
23
62.16%
Underperform Votes
14
37.84%
Urovant SciencesOutperform Votes
78
57.35%
Underperform Votes
58
42.65%

96.8% of Aura Biosciences shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.4% of Urovant Sciences shares are held by institutional investors. 5.4% of Aura Biosciences shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Urovant Sciences 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.

Aura Biosciences presently has a consensus price target of $23.00, indicating a potential upside of 156.98%. Given Aura Biosciences' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Aura Biosciences is more favorable than Urovant Sciences.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Aura Biosciences
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.29
Urovant Sciences
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Aura Biosciences is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Urovant Sciences, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Aura BiosciencesN/AN/A-$76.41M-$1.73-5.17
Urovant SciencesN/AN/A-$146.74M-$4.71-3.45

In the previous week, Aura Biosciences had 13 more articles in the media than Urovant Sciences. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Aura Biosciences and 0 mentions for Urovant Sciences. Aura Biosciences' average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Urovant Sciences' score of 0.00 indicating that Aura Biosciences is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Aura Biosciences Positive
Urovant Sciences Neutral

Summary

Aura Biosciences beats Urovant Sciences on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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AURA vs. The Competition

MetricAura BiosciencesBiological Products IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$447.05M$3.04B$5.36B$8.84B
Dividend YieldN/A1.91%5.09%4.09%
P/E Ratio-5.1742.67105.7117.69
Price / SalesN/A352.381,240.48162.66
Price / CashN/A169.3840.0036.29
Price / Book2.564.597.076.50
Net Income-$76.41M-$41.63M$119.18M$226.03M
7 Day Performance-5.49%2.49%2.15%3.96%
1 Month Performance-21.42%-3.47%-3.13%3.77%
1 Year Performance12.16%28.34%33.60%29.32%

Aura Biosciences Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
AURA
Aura Biosciences
3.5219 of 5 stars
$8.95
-0.9%
$23.00
+157.0%
+12.2%$447.05MN/A-5.1750
UROV
Urovant Sciences
N/A$16.24
flat
N/AN/A$531.75MN/A-3.4570
PRQR
ProQR Therapeutics
2.0955 of 5 stars
$3.62
+0.3%
$7.13
+96.8%
+151.4%$295.68M$7.05M-11.31180News Coverage
URGN
UroGen Pharma
3.743 of 5 stars
$11.91
+3.1%
$48.38
+306.2%
-4.9%$279.34M$89.36M-3.69200
PSNL
Personalis
4.2098 of 5 stars
$3.47
+2.7%
$6.81
+96.3%
+153.3%$245.15M$87.49M-2.07400
IVA
Inventiva
3.0477 of 5 stars
$2.62
-1.5%
$13.25
+406.7%
-34.4%$137.24M$18.91M0.00100Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
Gap Down
GLPG
Galapagos
1.2935 of 5 stars
$27.13
+7.6%
$30.75
+13.3%
-26.7%$1.79B$260.09M0.001,123Analyst Downgrade
Gap Up
ARVN
Arvinas
3.067 of 5 stars
$25.86
+3.0%
$61.08
+136.2%
+20.8%$1.78B$161.10M-5.48445Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
Gap Up
XNCR
Xencor
3.5938 of 5 stars
$25.01
+3.8%
$35.75
+42.9%
+33.5%$1.75B$85.16M-7.55280
RXRX
Recursion Pharmaceuticals
2.0565 of 5 stars
$5.70
-0.9%
$9.25
+62.3%
-15.9%$1.63B$44.58M-3.73400Analyst Forecast
Options Volume
High Trading Volume
IMCR
Immunocore
2.8635 of 5 stars
$32.28
+0.5%
$69.18
+114.3%
-29.3%$1.61B$249.43M-33.81497Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:AURA) was last updated on 11/23/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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