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Citius Pharmaceuticals (CTXR) Competitors

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$3.30 +0.04 (+1.23%)
As of 01/17/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

CTXR vs. TARA, INZY, MGX, IGMS, MIST, OSTX, ENTA, DBVT, CRDL, and ELUT

Should you be buying Citius Pharmaceuticals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Citius Pharmaceuticals include Protara Therapeutics (TARA), Inozyme Pharma (INZY), Metagenomi (MGX), IGM Biosciences (IGMS), Milestone Pharmaceuticals (MIST), OS Therapies (OSTX), Enanta Pharmaceuticals (ENTA), DBV Technologies (DBVT), Cardiol Therapeutics (CRDL), and Elutia (ELUT). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

Citius Pharmaceuticals vs.

Citius Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:CTXR) and Protara Therapeutics (NASDAQ:TARA) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and dividends.

Citius Pharmaceuticals presently has a consensus price target of $54.50, suggesting a potential upside of 1,551.52%. Protara Therapeutics has a consensus price target of $22.67, suggesting a potential upside of 398.17%. Given Citius Pharmaceuticals' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Citius Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than Protara Therapeutics.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Citius Pharmaceuticals
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.33
Protara Therapeutics
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Citius Pharmaceuticals received 175 more outperform votes than Protara Therapeutics when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.67% of users gave Protara Therapeutics an outperform vote while only 62.43% of users gave Citius Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Citius PharmaceuticalsOutperform Votes
211
62.43%
Underperform Votes
127
37.57%
Protara TherapeuticsOutperform Votes
36
66.67%
Underperform Votes
18
33.33%

16.9% of Citius Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.1% of Protara Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. 15.0% of Citius Pharmaceuticals shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.5% of Protara Therapeutics shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Citius Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 1.3, meaning that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Protara Therapeutics has a beta of 1.56, meaning that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Protara Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Citius Pharmaceuticals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Citius PharmaceuticalsN/AN/A-$39.14M-$6.00-0.55
Protara TherapeuticsN/AN/A-$40.42M-$2.82-1.61

In the previous week, Protara Therapeutics had 2 more articles in the media than Citius Pharmaceuticals. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Protara Therapeutics and 1 mentions for Citius Pharmaceuticals. Protara Therapeutics' average media sentiment score of 0.47 beat Citius Pharmaceuticals' score of 0.27 indicating that Protara Therapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Citius Pharmaceuticals Neutral
Protara Therapeutics Neutral

Citius Pharmaceuticals' return on equity of -48.42% beat Protara Therapeutics' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Citius PharmaceuticalsN/A -48.42% -39.24%
Protara Therapeutics N/A -55.96%-49.06%

Summary

Citius Pharmaceuticals beats Protara Therapeutics on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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CTXR vs. The Competition

MetricCitius PharmaceuticalsPharmaceutical IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$28.05M$6.36B$5.24B$8.95B
Dividend YieldN/A2.94%5.13%4.04%
P/E Ratio-0.559.7889.3017.34
Price / SalesN/A315.001,255.2478.66
Price / CashN/A61.4443.8235.97
Price / Book0.326.055.324.79
Net Income-$39.14M$154.90M$122.69M$225.00M
7 Day Performance-9.09%-1.70%-0.16%1.52%
1 Month Performance27.41%2.72%3.75%4.68%
1 Year Performance-82.40%2.83%27.41%20.89%

Citius Pharmaceuticals Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CTXR
Citius Pharmaceuticals
2.8492 of 5 stars
$3.30
+1.2%
$54.50
+1,551.5%
-82.7%$28.05MN/A-0.5520Short Interest ↑
TARA
Protara Therapeutics
3.2229 of 5 stars
$5.24
-5.8%
$22.67
+332.6%
+105.9%$108.10MN/A-1.8630
INZY
Inozyme Pharma
3.4684 of 5 stars
$1.68
-16.0%
$18.33
+991.3%
-68.0%$107.92MN/A-1.0850Short Interest ↑
MGX
Metagenomi
1.6478 of 5 stars
$2.88
-8.0%
$16.67
+478.7%
N/A$107.78M$55.08M0.00236Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Down
IGMS
IGM Biosciences
4.6875 of 5 stars
$1.81
-13.4%
$5.50
+203.9%
-82.2%$107.63M$2.92M-0.50190Gap Up
MIST
Milestone Pharmaceuticals
3.1281 of 5 stars
$1.98
-4.8%
$13.00
+556.6%
+32.0%$105.59M$1M-2.4430Positive News
OSTX
OS Therapies
2.1687 of 5 stars
$4.86
-2.2%
$8.00
+64.6%
N/A$104.65MN/A0.00N/AAnalyst Forecast
Insider Trade
News Coverage
ENTA
Enanta Pharmaceuticals
4.5015 of 5 stars
$4.89
-3.9%
$17.25
+252.8%
-55.8%$103.64M$67.64M-0.89160
DBVT
DBV Technologies
3.8693 of 5 stars
$5.02
+1.0%
$22.50
+348.2%
-48.0%$103.26M$15.73M-1.1280Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↓
Gap Down
CRDL
Cardiol Therapeutics
2.4782 of 5 stars
$1.25
-2.3%
$8.75
+600.0%
+18.6%$102.13M$60,000.00-3.2120Positive News
ELUT
Elutia
3.0805 of 5 stars
$2.93
-10.1%
$10.00
+241.3%
-3.6%$101.27M$24.78M-1.12180Positive News
Gap Down

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This page (NASDAQ:CTXR) was last updated on 1/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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