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Celldex Therapeutics (CLDX) Competitors

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$23.55 -2.19 (-8.51%)
(As of 11/15/2024 ET)

CLDX vs. VIVO, NTLA, HSKA, OXFD, HALO, IONS, ALKS, FOLD, GERN, and LGND

Should you be buying Celldex Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Celldex Therapeutics include Meridian Bioscience (VIVO), Intellia Therapeutics (NTLA), Heska (HSKA), Oxford Immunotec Global (OXFD), Halozyme Therapeutics (HALO), Ionis Pharmaceuticals (IONS), Alkermes (ALKS), Amicus Therapeutics (FOLD), Geron (GERN), and Ligand Pharmaceuticals (LGND). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.

Celldex Therapeutics vs.

Meridian Bioscience (NASDAQ:VIVO) and Celldex Therapeutics (NASDAQ:CLDX) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation and community ranking.

In the previous week, Celldex Therapeutics had 19 more articles in the media than Meridian Bioscience. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Celldex Therapeutics and 0 mentions for Meridian Bioscience. Celldex Therapeutics' average media sentiment score of 0.39 beat Meridian Bioscience's score of 0.00 indicating that Celldex Therapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Meridian Bioscience Neutral
Celldex Therapeutics Neutral

Celldex Therapeutics has a consensus price target of $62.25, suggesting a potential upside of 164.33%. Given Celldex Therapeutics' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Celldex Therapeutics is more favorable than Meridian Bioscience.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Meridian Bioscience
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Celldex Therapeutics
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.89

Celldex Therapeutics received 300 more outperform votes than Meridian Bioscience when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.12% of users gave Celldex Therapeutics an outperform vote while only 48.77% of users gave Meridian Bioscience an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Meridian BioscienceOutperform Votes
316
48.77%
Underperform Votes
332
51.23%
Celldex TherapeuticsOutperform Votes
616
75.12%
Underperform Votes
204
24.88%

Meridian Bioscience has higher revenue and earnings than Celldex Therapeutics. Celldex Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Meridian Bioscience, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Meridian Bioscience$333.02M4.49$42.46M$0.9735.02
Celldex Therapeutics$9.98M156.62-$141.43M-$2.57-9.16

Meridian Bioscience has a beta of 0.23, meaning that its share price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Celldex Therapeutics has a beta of 1.6, meaning that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.

89.7% of Meridian Bioscience shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of Meridian Bioscience shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.8% of Celldex Therapeutics shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Meridian Bioscience has a net margin of 12.70% compared to Celldex Therapeutics' net margin of -1,544.32%. Meridian Bioscience's return on equity of 16.74% beat Celldex Therapeutics' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Meridian Bioscience12.70% 16.74% 13.09%
Celldex Therapeutics -1,544.32%-19.75%-18.86%

Summary

Celldex Therapeutics beats Meridian Bioscience on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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CLDX vs. The Competition

MetricCelldex TherapeuticsDiagnostic substances IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$1.56B$2.51B$5.07B$8.66B
Dividend YieldN/A0.74%5.10%4.06%
P/E Ratio-9.165.93101.9117.46
Price / Sales156.6227.501,195.1369.04
Price / CashN/A15.1341.0436.36
Price / Book1.993.036.345.87
Net Income-$141.43M$29.98M$119.64M$225.66M
7 Day Performance-10.18%-11.24%-5.13%-1.34%
1 Month Performance-18.06%-12.49%-2.72%1.15%
1 Year Performance-19.04%-20.97%31.10%24.02%

Celldex Therapeutics Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CLDX
Celldex Therapeutics
2.7984 of 5 stars
$23.55
-8.5%
$62.25
+164.3%
-15.3%$1.56B$9.98M-9.16160Insider Buying
VIVO
Meridian Bioscience
1.0694 of 5 stars
$33.97
flat
N/AN/A$1.50B$333.02M35.02702
NTLA
Intellia Therapeutics
4.5291 of 5 stars
$13.97
-7.6%
$55.36
+296.3%
-46.3%$1.42B$36.28M-2.57600Gap Up
High Trading Volume
HSKA
Heska
N/A$119.99
flat
N/AN/A$1.31B$257.31M-62.17808Analyst Forecast
OXFD
Oxford Immunotec Global
N/A$21.99
flat
N/AN/A$570.90M$73.71M-32.82273
HALO
Halozyme Therapeutics
4.983 of 5 stars
$45.65
-15.4%
$61.11
+33.9%
+15.5%$5.81B$829.25M15.12390News Coverage
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
IONS
Ionis Pharmaceuticals
4.0875 of 5 stars
$34.34
-7.8%
$60.65
+76.6%
-29.3%$5.42B$803.07M-14.07800Analyst Downgrade
Insider Selling
Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
ALKS
Alkermes
4.724 of 5 stars
$28.19
-0.6%
$35.42
+25.6%
+20.6%$4.56B$1.51B14.462,100Analyst Forecast
Insider Selling
FOLD
Amicus Therapeutics
4.6688 of 5 stars
$9.68
-4.1%
$17.63
+82.1%
-8.7%$2.89B$493.67M-28.47480Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↓
GERN
Geron
3.5173 of 5 stars
$3.66
-1.3%
$7.05
+92.6%
+95.7%$2.21B$29.48M-11.44141
LGND
Ligand Pharmaceuticals
4.9911 of 5 stars
$111.71
-3.2%
$144.83
+29.7%
+95.5%$2.11B$152.42M44.5180Analyst Forecast

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This page (NASDAQ:CLDX) was last updated on 11/17/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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