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$0.92 -0.02 (-1.83%)
As of 04/24/2025 03:59 PM Eastern

IOBT vs. DRUG, MNPR, NVCT, LFCR, YMAB, SLRN, IMMP, PROK, HUMA, and ITOS

Should you be buying IO Biotech stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IO Biotech include Bright Minds Biosciences (DRUG), Monopar Therapeutics (MNPR), Nuvectis Pharma (NVCT), Lifecore Biomedical (LFCR), Y-mAbs Therapeutics (YMAB), Acelyrin (SLRN), Immutep (IMMP), ProKidney (PROK), Humacyte (HUMA), and iTeos Therapeutics (ITOS). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

IO Biotech vs.

Bright Minds Biosciences (NASDAQ:DRUG) and IO Biotech (NASDAQ:IOBT) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership and community ranking.

IO Biotech received 19 more outperform votes than Bright Minds Biosciences when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Bright Minds Biosciences an outperform vote while only 92.59% of users gave IO Biotech an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Bright Minds BiosciencesOutperform Votes
6
100.00%
Underperform Votes
No Votes
IO BiotechOutperform Votes
25
92.59%
Underperform Votes
2
7.41%

40.5% of Bright Minds Biosciences shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.8% of IO Biotech shares are owned by institutional investors. 42.7% of Bright Minds Biosciences shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of IO Biotech shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Bright Minds Biosciences presently has a consensus price target of $84.33, indicating a potential upside of 152.34%. IO Biotech has a consensus price target of $9.33, indicating a potential upside of 911.41%. Given IO Biotech's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe IO Biotech is more favorable than Bright Minds Biosciences.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Bright Minds Biosciences
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.20
IO Biotech
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.33

Bright Minds Biosciences' return on equity of -5.85% beat IO Biotech's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Bright Minds BiosciencesN/A -5.85% -5.68%
IO Biotech N/A -86.56%-75.24%

Bright Minds Biosciences is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IO Biotech, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Bright Minds BiosciencesN/AN/A-$2.06M-$0.17-196.59
IO BiotechN/AN/A-$86.08M-$1.37-0.67

Bright Minds Biosciences has a beta of -5.5, suggesting that its share price is 650% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IO Biotech has a beta of 0.08, suggesting that its share price is 92% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Bright Minds Biosciences had 2 more articles in the media than IO Biotech. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Bright Minds Biosciences and 0 mentions for IO Biotech. IO Biotech's average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat Bright Minds Biosciences' score of 1.26 indicating that IO Biotech is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Bright Minds Biosciences Positive
IO Biotech Very Positive

Summary

Bright Minds Biosciences beats IO Biotech on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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IOBT vs. The Competition

MetricIO BiotechPharmaceutical IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$60.80M$6.59B$5.41B$7.70B
Dividend YieldN/A3.21%5.44%4.33%
P/E Ratio-0.677.0522.1818.31
Price / SalesN/A273.45397.31107.09
Price / CashN/A65.6738.2034.62
Price / Book0.466.506.834.25
Net Income-$86.08M$142.50M$3.20B$247.51M
7 Day Performance7.29%8.32%5.77%6.86%
1 Month Performance-21.13%-5.61%-4.32%-2.95%
1 Year Performance-36.36%0.11%17.88%5.17%

IO Biotech Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
IOBT
IO Biotech
3.0838 of 5 stars
$0.92
-1.8%
$9.33
+911.4%
-36.8%$60.80MN/A-0.6730Positive News
DRUG
Bright Minds Biosciences
3.3453 of 5 stars
$32.75
+13.6%
$84.33
+157.5%
+2,966.1%$230.69MN/A-192.64N/APositive News
MNPR
Monopar Therapeutics
1.0703 of 5 stars
$37.49
+7.5%
$55.33
+47.6%
+1,256.8%$229.18MN/A-19.0310Positive News
Gap Up
NVCT
Nuvectis Pharma
2.0274 of 5 stars
$9.78
+17.7%
$15.67
+60.2%
+63.3%$228.77MN/A-8.438Positive News
Gap Up
LFCR
Lifecore Biomedical
1.8493 of 5 stars
$6.17
+6.0%
$8.00
+29.7%
-2.5%$228.44M$130.86M-11.02690
YMAB
Y-mAbs Therapeutics
3.6166 of 5 stars
$4.93
+2.1%
$18.30
+271.2%
-73.0%$222.93M$87.69M-9.13150Analyst Downgrade
News Coverage
Positive News
SLRN
Acelyrin
3.4153 of 5 stars
$2.18
-2.2%
$9.60
+340.4%
-52.5%$219.98MN/A-0.89135Positive News
IMMP
Immutep
1.0512 of 5 stars
$1.49
+2.1%
$8.50
+470.5%
-35.1%$216.88M$5.14M0.002,021Positive News
PROK
ProKidney
2.3738 of 5 stars
$0.74
+1.2%
$5.00
+575.7%
-63.5%$216.60M$76,000.00-1.353Insider Trade
Positive News
HUMA
Humacyte
2.275 of 5 stars
$1.49
-2.6%
$13.71
+820.4%
-61.3%$215.82M$1.57M-1.11150Positive News
Gap Down
ITOS
iTeos Therapeutics
2.2831 of 5 stars
$5.53
-2.1%
$25.75
+365.6%
-29.4%$211.21M$35M-1.7690Positive News

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