CTXR vs. ALLK, CUE, PMVP, ASRT, GNLX, RLMD, RZLT, IOBT, OPTN, and CLRB
Should you be buying Citius Pharmaceuticals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Citius Pharmaceuticals include Allakos (ALLK), Cue Biopharma (CUE), PMV Pharmaceuticals (PMVP), Assertio (ASRT), Genelux (GNLX), Relmada Therapeutics (RLMD), Rezolute (RZLT), IO Biotech (IOBT), OptiNose (OPTN), and Cellectar Biosciences (CLRB). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Allakos (NASDAQ:ALLK) and Citius Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:CTXR) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, profitability and dividends.
Allakos has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Citius Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 1.54, indicating that its share price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Allakos currently has a consensus price target of $1.83, suggesting a potential upside of 27.31%. Citius Pharmaceuticals has a consensus price target of $4.00, suggesting a potential upside of 516.90%. Given Allakos' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Citius Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than Allakos.
Citius Pharmaceuticals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Allakos, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
84.6% of Allakos shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.9% of Citius Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.1% of Allakos shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.0% of Citius Pharmaceuticals shares are owned 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 received 25 more outperform votes than Allakos when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.05% of users gave Citius Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 59.34% of users gave Allakos an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Citius Pharmaceuticals had 3 more articles in the media than Allakos. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Citius Pharmaceuticals and 1 mentions for Allakos. Allakos' average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Citius Pharmaceuticals' score of 0.09 indicating that Citius Pharmaceuticals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Allakos' return on equity of -40.78% beat Citius Pharmaceuticals' return on equity.
Summary
Citius Pharmaceuticals beats Allakos on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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