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HUMA vs. RCUS, LENZ, ZYME, VALN, SYRE, MLYS, STOK, NUVB, VERV, and PRAX

Should you be buying Humacyte stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Humacyte include Arcus Biosciences (RCUS), LENZ Therapeutics (LENZ), Zymeworks (ZYME), Valneva (VALN), Spyre Therapeutics (SYRE), Mineralys Therapeutics (MLYS), Stoke Therapeutics (STOK), Nuvation Bio (NUVB), Verve Therapeutics (VERV), and Praxis Precision Medicines (PRAX). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

Humacyte vs. Its Competitors

Arcus Biosciences (NYSE:RCUS) and Humacyte (NASDAQ:HUMA) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.

Arcus Biosciences has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Humacyte has a beta of 1.9, indicating that its share price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Humacyte has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Arcus Biosciences' net margin of -109.56%. Humacyte's return on equity of 0.00% beat Arcus Biosciences' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Arcus Biosciences-109.56% -55.96% -25.73%
Humacyte N/A N/A -78.26%

Arcus Biosciences currently has a consensus price target of $21.14, suggesting a potential upside of 102.32%. Humacyte has a consensus price target of $9.75, suggesting a potential upside of 531.07%. Given Humacyte's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Humacyte is more favorable than Arcus Biosciences.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Arcus Biosciences
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.75
Humacyte
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
7 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Humacyte has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Arcus Biosciences. Humacyte is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Arcus Biosciences, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Arcus Biosciences$262M4.25-$283M-$3.17-3.30
Humacyte$1.57M155.85-$148.70M-$0.45-3.43

92.9% of Arcus Biosciences shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.7% of Humacyte shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.6% of Arcus Biosciences shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.1% of Humacyte shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Arcus Biosciences and Arcus Biosciences both had 6 articles in the media. Arcus Biosciences' average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat Humacyte's score of 1.19 indicating that Arcus Biosciences is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Arcus Biosciences
5 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Humacyte
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Humacyte beats Arcus Biosciences on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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HUMA vs. The Competition

MetricHumacyteMED IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$243.10M$3.07B$5.76B$9.75B
Dividend YieldN/A2.26%3.95%4.02%
P/E Ratio-3.4120.9431.4526.36
Price / Sales155.85352.55431.04155.09
Price / CashN/A44.7137.7559.42
Price / Book51.508.0110.536.57
Net Income-$148.70M-$53.98M$3.28B$265.92M
7 Day Performance-2.22%-1.24%0.37%0.06%
1 Month Performance-34.81%5.19%5.15%1.99%
1 Year Performance-74.88%8.80%50.24%20.91%

Humacyte Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
HUMA
Humacyte
2.546 of 5 stars
$1.55
-2.2%
$9.75
+531.1%
-75.5%$243.10M$1.57M-3.41150Positive News
Analyst Forecast
RCUS
Arcus Biosciences
2.393 of 5 stars
$10.45
+0.6%
$21.14
+102.3%
-38.5%$1.11B$258M-3.30500News Coverage
LENZ
LENZ Therapeutics
2.0238 of 5 stars
$38.77
+2.4%
$49.60
+27.9%
+72.9%$1.11BN/A-20.41110High Trading Volume
ZYME
Zymeworks
0.0765 of 5 stars
$14.05
-2.2%
N/AN/A$1.06B$76.30M-14.48460
VALN
Valneva
2.0745 of 5 stars
$12.14
+5.3%
$15.50
+27.7%
+16.6%$1.03B$183.52M-12.39700Gap Up
High Trading Volume
SYRE
Spyre Therapeutics
3.0779 of 5 stars
$16.94
-0.1%
$53.40
+215.2%
-40.3%$1.02B$890K-4.9873News Coverage
Positive News
MLYS
Mineralys Therapeutics
3.1255 of 5 stars
$15.34
+5.6%
$32.25
+110.2%
+25.6%$1.02BN/A-4.3128News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Forecast
STOK
Stoke Therapeutics
4.497 of 5 stars
$18.51
+1.6%
$25.57
+38.1%
+44.0%$1.01B$36.56M21.78100Positive News
NUVB
Nuvation Bio
2.2225 of 5 stars
$2.90
+5.5%
$7.33
+152.9%
-10.9%$992.58M$7.87M-4.6060
VERV
Verve Therapeutics
2.7637 of 5 stars
$11.13
flat
$14.57
+30.9%
N/A$992.13M$32.33M-5.27110
PRAX
Praxis Precision Medicines
1.7328 of 5 stars
$46.63
-1.0%
$85.88
+84.2%
-9.9%$981.56M$8.55M-3.79110

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This page (NASDAQ:HUMA) was last updated on 8/29/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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