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$4.05 -0.22 (-5.15%)
Closing price 08/1/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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$4.04 -0.01 (-0.37%)
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KZR vs. BHST, HURA, ALTS, CNTB, FTLF, SKYE, CHRS, PLX, CRDL, and SAVA

Should you be buying Kezar Life Sciences stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kezar Life Sciences include BioHarvest Sciences (BHST), TuHURA Biosciences (HURA), ALT5 Sigma (ALTS), Connect Biopharma (CNTB), FitLife Brands (FTLF), Skye Bioscience (SKYE), Coherus Oncology (CHRS), Protalix BioTherapeutics (PLX), Cardiol Therapeutics (CRDL), and Cassava Sciences (SAVA). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

Kezar Life Sciences vs. Its Competitors

Kezar Life Sciences (NASDAQ:KZR) and BioHarvest Sciences (NASDAQ:BHST) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, dividends and risk.

BioHarvest Sciences has higher revenue and earnings than Kezar Life Sciences. BioHarvest Sciences is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kezar Life Sciences, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Kezar Life Sciences$7M4.23-$83.74M-$10.82-0.37
BioHarvest Sciences$27.70M4.56-$12.91M-$0.50-15.38

Kezar Life Sciences has a net margin of 0.00% compared to BioHarvest Sciences' net margin of -31.30%. Kezar Life Sciences' return on equity of -61.15% beat BioHarvest Sciences' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Kezar Life SciencesN/A -61.15% -50.27%
BioHarvest Sciences -31.30%-307.04%-33.21%

Kezar Life Sciences has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BioHarvest Sciences has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Kezar Life Sciences had 1 more articles in the media than BioHarvest Sciences. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Kezar Life Sciences and 0 mentions for BioHarvest Sciences. BioHarvest Sciences' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Kezar Life Sciences' score of -1.00 indicating that BioHarvest Sciences is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Kezar Life Sciences Negative
BioHarvest Sciences Neutral

Kezar Life Sciences currently has a consensus target price of $39.50, indicating a potential upside of 875.31%. BioHarvest Sciences has a consensus target price of $13.67, indicating a potential upside of 77.72%. Given Kezar Life Sciences' higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Kezar Life Sciences is more favorable than BioHarvest Sciences.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Kezar Life Sciences
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.33
BioHarvest Sciences
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

67.9% of Kezar Life Sciences shares are held by institutional investors. 10.4% of Kezar Life Sciences shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

BioHarvest Sciences beats Kezar Life Sciences on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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KZR vs. The Competition

MetricKezar Life SciencesMED IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$31.20M$3.00B$5.49B$9.52B
Dividend YieldN/A2.43%4.73%4.09%
P/E Ratio-0.3717.6228.7823.81
Price / Sales4.23179.21372.2066.04
Price / CashN/A41.9535.4557.96
Price / Book0.258.508.275.54
Net Income-$83.74M-$55.06M$3.25B$259.28M
7 Day Performance-6.03%-3.99%-3.70%-4.64%
1 Month Performance-9.80%9.58%4.34%4.41%
1 Year Performance-33.78%6.70%25.90%17.95%

Kezar Life Sciences Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
KZR
Kezar Life Sciences
3.6576 of 5 stars
$4.05
-5.2%
$39.50
+875.3%
-36.1%$31.20M$7M-0.3760Negative News
Analyst Downgrade
Short Interest ↑
BHST
BioHarvest Sciences
N/A$7.50
-1.1%
$13.67
+82.2%
N/A$124.50M$25.19M-15.00N/A
HURA
TuHURA Biosciences
1.2939 of 5 stars
$2.78
-2.5%
$12.67
+355.6%
N/A$124.49MN/A0.00N/AGap Down
ALTS
ALT5 Sigma
N/A$6.98
-1.4%
N/A+302.6%$123.58M$12.53M0.00170
CNTB
Connect Biopharma
2.6328 of 5 stars
$2.08
-6.3%
$7.00
+236.5%
+73.9%$123.35M$26.03M0.00110Short Interest ↑
FTLF
FitLife Brands
3.5497 of 5 stars
$12.83
-0.5%
$20.50
+59.8%
-22.0%$121.15M$63.86M15.2720News Coverage
SKYE
Skye Bioscience
1.4692 of 5 stars
$3.74
-4.3%
$16.60
+343.9%
-37.8%$121.11MN/A-4.5611Gap Down
CHRS
Coherus Oncology
3.8227 of 5 stars
$1.07
+2.9%
$4.68
+337.7%
-38.6%$120.57M$266.96M-0.95330News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
High Trading Volume
PLX
Protalix BioTherapeutics
2.2289 of 5 stars
$1.50
-0.7%
$15.00
+900.0%
+36.2%$119.41M$59.76M-11.54200News Coverage
Gap Up
CRDL
Cardiol Therapeutics
1.9541 of 5 stars
$1.53
+6.3%
$8.00
+422.9%
-33.7%$119.02MN/A-4.5020Gap Up
High Trading Volume
SAVA
Cassava Sciences
3.5959 of 5 stars
$2.38
+1.3%
$54.50
+2,189.9%
-91.0%$113.52MN/A-1.5930

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This page (NASDAQ:KZR) was last updated on 8/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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