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Kezar Life Sciences (KZR) Competitors

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$7.49 +0.11 (+1.49%)
(As of 11/20/2024 ET)

KZR vs. NXTC, HOOK, GNFT, SOPH, ZNTL, SLN, INBX, ZURA, SLDB, and XBIT

Should you be buying Kezar Life Sciences stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kezar Life Sciences include NextCure (NXTC), Hookipa Pharma (HOOK), Genfit (GNFT), SOPHiA GENETICS (SOPH), Zentalis Pharmaceuticals (ZNTL), Silence Therapeutics (SLN), Inhibrx (INBX), Zura Bio (ZURA), Solid Biosciences (SLDB), and XBiotech (XBIT). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.

Kezar Life Sciences vs.

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

67.9% of Kezar Life Sciences shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.7% of NextCure shares are held by institutional investors. 9.3% of Kezar Life Sciences shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.3% of NextCure shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

In the previous week, Kezar Life Sciences had 8 more articles in the media than NextCure. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Kezar Life Sciences and 1 mentions for NextCure. Kezar Life Sciences' average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat NextCure's score of 0.00 indicating that Kezar Life Sciences is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Kezar Life Sciences
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
NextCure
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Kezar Life Sciences presently has a consensus price target of $40.50, suggesting a potential upside of 440.72%. NextCure has a consensus price target of $4.00, suggesting a potential upside of 207.69%. Given Kezar Life Sciences' higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Kezar Life Sciences is more favorable than NextCure.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Kezar Life Sciences
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
NextCure
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Kezar Life Sciences received 56 more outperform votes than NextCure when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.52% of users gave NextCure an outperform vote while only 57.38% of users gave Kezar Life Sciences an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Kezar Life SciencesOutperform Votes
136
57.38%
Underperform Votes
101
42.62%
NextCureOutperform Votes
80
64.52%
Underperform Votes
44
35.48%

NextCure has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Kezar Life Sciences. NextCure 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$7M7.81-$101.87M-$13.18-0.57
NextCureN/AN/A-$62.72M-$2.09-0.62

Kezar Life Sciences has a beta of 0.22, suggesting that its share price is 78% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NextCure has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Kezar Life Sciences' return on equity of -54.95% beat NextCure's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Kezar Life SciencesN/A -54.95% -46.11%
NextCure N/A -62.50%-53.67%

Summary

Kezar Life Sciences beats NextCure on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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KZR vs. The Competition

MetricKezar Life SciencesPharmaceutical IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$54.68M$6.44B$5.06B$8.82B
Dividend YieldN/A8.11%5.18%4.07%
P/E Ratio-0.5710.78126.3217.81
Price / Sales7.81243.711,179.2574.56
Price / CashN/A22.1633.8632.53
Price / Book0.295.474.684.68
Net Income-$101.87M$153.61M$119.54M$226.08M
7 Day Performance-0.40%-2.00%-1.83%-1.04%
1 Month Performance-5.47%-7.46%-3.60%1.04%
1 Year Performance-14.89%31.82%31.91%26.28%

Kezar Life Sciences Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
KZR
Kezar Life Sciences
4.3591 of 5 stars
$7.49
+1.5%
$40.50
+440.7%
-15.4%$53.85M$7M-0.5760Analyst Revision
NXTC
NextCure
4.3842 of 5 stars
$1.30
-0.8%
$4.00
+207.7%
+4.8%$36.69MN/A0.0090
HOOK
Hookipa Pharma
2.4727 of 5 stars
$2.72
-2.5%
$44.00
+1,517.6%
-46.4%$33.63M$20.13M0.0056
GNFT
Genfit
1.4555 of 5 stars
$4.31
+1.2%
$13.00
+201.6%
+27.1%$215.28M$41.31M0.00120
SOPH
SOPHiA GENETICS
1.4237 of 5 stars
$3.17
-3.1%
$6.50
+105.0%
-14.6%$213.78M$62.37M0.00520
ZNTL
Zentalis Pharmaceuticals
2.5838 of 5 stars
$3.13
+4.7%
$10.00
+219.5%
-71.1%$213.08MN/A0.00160Analyst Revision
SLN
Silence Therapeutics
3.6458 of 5 stars
$6.93
-0.6%
$57.20
+725.4%
-27.1%$208.60M$31.55M0.00100Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
High Trading Volume
INBX
Inhibrx
1.2884 of 5 stars
$14.04
-1.7%
N/A-36.9%$206.86M$1.63M0.00166
ZURA
Zura Bio
3.9024 of 5 stars
$2.90
-7.9%
$15.80
+444.8%
-35.1%$205.68MN/A0.003Analyst Forecast
SLDB
Solid Biosciences
3.6066 of 5 stars
$4.96
-2.9%
$15.14
+205.3%
+108.4%$204.17M$8.09M0.00100
XBIT
XBiotech
0.8929 of 5 stars
$6.49
-2.7%
N/A+77.8%$203.32M$4.01M0.00100Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:KZR) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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