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Lipocine (LPCN) Competitors

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LPCN vs. INKT, CVM, COEP, KALA, MNOV, GNTA, INMB, CUE, IMMX, and SLGL

Should you be buying Lipocine stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lipocine include MiNK Therapeutics (INKT), CEL-SCI (CVM), Coeptis Therapeutics (COEP), KALA BIO (KALA), MediciNova (MNOV), Genenta Science (GNTA), INmune Bio (INMB), Cue Biopharma (CUE), Immix Biopharma (IMMX), and Sol-Gel Technologies (SLGL). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

Lipocine vs. Its Competitors

MiNK Therapeutics (NASDAQ:INKT) and Lipocine (NASDAQ:LPCN) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and valuation.

MiNK Therapeutics currently has a consensus price target of $37.50, indicating a potential upside of 160.24%. Lipocine has a consensus price target of $9.00, indicating a potential upside of 207.06%. Given Lipocine's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Lipocine is more favorable than MiNK Therapeutics.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
MiNK Therapeutics
1 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.60
Lipocine
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.50

MiNK Therapeutics has a beta of 0.33, meaning that its stock price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lipocine has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.

MiNK Therapeutics' return on equity of 0.00% beat Lipocine's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
MiNK TherapeuticsN/A N/A -227.24%
Lipocine N/A -23.59%-21.91%

Lipocine has higher revenue and earnings than MiNK Therapeutics. MiNK Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lipocine, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
MiNK TherapeuticsN/AN/A-$9.51M-$2.88-5.00
Lipocine$11.20M1.42$10K-$0.87-3.37

In the previous week, MiNK Therapeutics had 3 more articles in the media than Lipocine. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for MiNK Therapeutics and 3 mentions for Lipocine. MiNK Therapeutics' average media sentiment score of -0.01 beat Lipocine's score of -0.61 indicating that MiNK Therapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
MiNK Therapeutics
3 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Lipocine
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Negative

2.9% of MiNK Therapeutics shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.1% of Lipocine shares are owned by institutional investors. 22.5% of MiNK Therapeutics shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.4% of Lipocine shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Lipocine beats MiNK Therapeutics on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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LPCN vs. The Competition

MetricLipocineMED IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$15.89M$2.53B$5.76B$9.75B
Dividend YieldN/A1.68%3.95%4.02%
P/E Ratio-3.3722.6331.4526.36
Price / Sales1.42535.60431.04155.09
Price / CashN/A177.0937.7559.42
Price / Book0.935.9510.536.57
Net Income$10K$32.94M$3.28B$265.92M
7 Day Performance-5.76%-1.64%0.37%0.06%
1 Month Performance-10.37%1.93%5.15%1.99%
1 Year Performance-18.36%10.64%50.24%20.91%

Lipocine Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
LPCN
Lipocine
2.3847 of 5 stars
$2.93
-1.6%
$9.00
+207.1%
-19.5%$15.89M$11.20M-3.3710Positive News
INKT
MiNK Therapeutics
2.736 of 5 stars
$14.57
-2.2%
$37.50
+157.4%
+86.4%$67.39MN/A-5.0630
CVM
CEL-SCI
0.5262 of 5 stars
$10.56
+10.9%
N/A-71.4%$65.52MN/A-22.0043News Coverage
Gap Down
COEP
Coeptis Therapeutics
0.657 of 5 stars
$13.65
+1.4%
N/A+225.3%$64.88MN/A-2.352News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Up
KALA
KALA BIO
3.531 of 5 stars
$8.78
-4.7%
$13.00
+48.1%
+79.5%$64.66M$3.89M-1.2930Positive News
MNOV
MediciNova
2.2237 of 5 stars
$1.32
+0.6%
$7.00
+430.3%
-2.2%$64.37M$1M-5.2810Analyst Forecast
GNTA
Genenta Science
2.3522 of 5 stars
$3.50
-0.4%
$25.00
+615.3%
-6.1%$64.20MN/A0.007News Coverage
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
INMB
INmune Bio
1.9933 of 5 stars
$2.24
-7.1%
$18.40
+721.4%
-69.4%$64.07M$50K-0.9010Positive News
CUE
Cue Biopharma
2.6011 of 5 stars
$0.82
-0.9%
N/A+14.5%$63.47M$9.29M-1.4660High Trading Volume
IMMX
Immix Biopharma
3.3219 of 5 stars
$2.10
-4.1%
$7.00
+233.3%
+3.2%$63.15MN/A-2.739
SLGL
Sol-Gel Technologies
0.7939 of 5 stars
$21.00
-7.4%
N/A+224.0%$63.15M$11.54M-17.0750Gap Down

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