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AVXL vs. SWTX, PTGX, CPRX, MRUS, ALVO, APLS, SRRK, CRNX, IMVT, and ACAD

Should you be buying Anavex Life Sciences stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Anavex Life Sciences include SpringWorks Therapeutics (SWTX), Protagonist Therapeutics (PTGX), Catalyst Pharmaceuticals (CPRX), Merus (MRUS), Alvotech (ALVO), Apellis Pharmaceuticals (APLS), Scholar Rock (SRRK), Crinetics Pharmaceuticals (CRNX), Immunovant (IMVT), and ACADIA Pharmaceuticals (ACAD). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

Anavex Life Sciences vs.

Anavex Life Sciences (NASDAQ:AVXL) and SpringWorks Therapeutics (NASDAQ:SWTX) are both medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment and risk.

In the previous week, Anavex Life Sciences and Anavex Life Sciences both had 6 articles in the media. SpringWorks Therapeutics' average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Anavex Life Sciences' score of 0.75 indicating that SpringWorks Therapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Anavex Life Sciences
2 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
SpringWorks Therapeutics
2 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Anavex Life Sciences presently has a consensus target price of $44.00, suggesting a potential upside of 388.35%. SpringWorks Therapeutics has a consensus target price of $73.20, suggesting a potential upside of 96.46%. Given Anavex Life Sciences' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Anavex Life Sciences is more favorable than SpringWorks Therapeutics.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Anavex Life Sciences
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.33
SpringWorks Therapeutics
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Anavex Life Sciences has a net margin of 0.00% compared to SpringWorks Therapeutics' net margin of -134.73%. Anavex Life Sciences' return on equity of -37.50% beat SpringWorks Therapeutics' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Anavex Life SciencesN/A -37.50% -34.08%
SpringWorks Therapeutics -134.73%-46.74%-41.12%

31.5% of Anavex Life Sciences shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.0% of Anavex Life Sciences shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.6% of SpringWorks Therapeutics shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Anavex Life Sciences received 336 more outperform votes than SpringWorks Therapeutics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.92% of users gave Anavex Life Sciences an outperform vote while only 71.62% of users gave SpringWorks Therapeutics an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Anavex Life SciencesOutperform Votes
442
74.92%
Underperform Votes
148
25.08%
SpringWorks TherapeuticsOutperform Votes
106
71.62%
Underperform Votes
42
28.38%

Anavex Life Sciences has higher earnings, but lower revenue than SpringWorks Therapeutics. Anavex Life Sciences is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SpringWorks Therapeutics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Anavex Life SciencesN/AN/A-$43M-$0.55-16.38
SpringWorks Therapeutics$191.59M14.57-$325.10M-$3.48-10.71

Anavex Life Sciences has a beta of 0.8, indicating that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SpringWorks Therapeutics has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Anavex Life Sciences beats SpringWorks Therapeutics on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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AVXL vs. The Competition

MetricAnavex Life SciencesBiological Products IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$766.43M$2.89B$5.32B$7.56B
Dividend YieldN/A1.91%5.11%4.33%
P/E Ratio-16.3830.8821.7717.81
Price / SalesN/A435.82378.2693.59
Price / CashN/A168.6838.1534.64
Price / Book6.353.476.443.99
Net Income-$43M-$72.06M$3.20B$247.23M
7 Day Performance18.55%8.57%6.42%7.24%
1 Month Performance-4.45%-17.48%-8.66%-6.26%
1 Year Performance113.00%-29.58%10.27%-0.18%

Anavex Life Sciences Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
AVXL
Anavex Life Sciences
3.3651 of 5 stars
$9.12
+3.4%
$44.00
+382.5%
+105.4%$775.78MN/A-16.5840Gap Down
SWTX
SpringWorks Therapeutics
2.0543 of 5 stars
$36.96
-5.4%
$73.20
+98.0%
-12.4%$2.77B$191.59M-10.62230Positive News
PTGX
Protagonist Therapeutics
3.8077 of 5 stars
$43.30
-2.6%
$62.56
+44.5%
+66.5%$2.66B$434.43M16.28120Positive News
CPRX
Catalyst Pharmaceuticals
4.6047 of 5 stars
$21.83
-5.4%
$32.29
+47.9%
+49.8%$2.65B$491.73M18.5080Positive News
Gap Down
MRUS
Merus
2.8304 of 5 stars
$37.27
-2.2%
$85.31
+128.9%
+1.4%$2.57B$36.13M-9.4337Positive News
Gap Down
ALVO
Alvotech
1.7084 of 5 stars
$8.33
-2.1%
$18.00
+116.2%
-30.3%$2.51B$489.68M-4.501,026Analyst Revision
Gap Down
APLS
Apellis Pharmaceuticals
4.1441 of 5 stars
$19.75
-1.1%
$45.59
+130.9%
-62.7%$2.48B$781.37M-9.73770Gap Down
SRRK
Scholar Rock
3.8819 of 5 stars
$26.01
-3.3%
$42.67
+64.0%
+115.1%$2.46B$33.19M-11.07140Positive News
CRNX
Crinetics Pharmaceuticals
3.5876 of 5 stars
$26.38
-1.9%
$73.00
+176.8%
-33.2%$2.45B$1.04M-7.07210Positive News
Gap Down
IMVT
Immunovant
2.3714 of 5 stars
$14.36
-1.5%
$41.00
+185.5%
-47.4%$2.44BN/A-5.48120Short Interest ↑
Gap Down
ACAD
ACADIA Pharmaceuticals
4.0179 of 5 stars
$14.62
-4.9%
$23.93
+63.7%
-13.3%$2.44B$957.80M18.74510Analyst Revision
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This page (NASDAQ:AVXL) was last updated on 4/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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