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Lipocine (LPCN) Competitors

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$4.87 +0.19 (+4.06%)
(As of 12/20/2024 05:16 PM ET)

LPCN vs. DERM, ANRO, IMUX, SKYE, MNOV, CNTX, AVTX, PYXS, IPSC, and CLLS

Should you be buying Lipocine stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lipocine include Journey Medical (DERM), Alto Neuroscience (ANRO), Immunic (IMUX), Skye Bioscience (SKYE), MediciNova (MNOV), Context Therapeutics (CNTX), Avalo Therapeutics (AVTX), Pyxis Oncology (PYXS), Century Therapeutics (IPSC), and Cellectis (CLLS). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

Lipocine vs.

Journey Medical (NASDAQ:DERM) and Lipocine (NASDAQ:LPCN) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends, community ranking and institutional ownership.

7.3% of Journey Medical shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.1% of Lipocine shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.2% of Journey Medical shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.1% of Lipocine shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Journey Medical presently has a consensus price target of $9.38, suggesting a potential upside of 100.32%. Lipocine has a consensus price target of $10.00, suggesting a potential upside of 105.34%. Given Lipocine's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Lipocine is more favorable than Journey Medical.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Journey Medical
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.20
Lipocine
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Lipocine has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Journey Medical's net margin of -31.74%. Lipocine's return on equity of -19.17% beat Journey Medical's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Journey Medical-31.74% -132.10% -26.90%
Lipocine N/A -19.17%-17.60%

Journey Medical has a beta of 0.89, meaning that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lipocine has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Lipocine received 342 more outperform votes than Journey Medical when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Journey Medical an outperform vote while only 69.26% of users gave Lipocine an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Journey MedicalOutperform Votes
5
100.00%
Underperform Votes
No Votes
LipocineOutperform Votes
347
69.26%
Underperform Votes
154
30.74%

In the previous week, Lipocine had 5 more articles in the media than Journey Medical. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Lipocine and 1 mentions for Journey Medical. Journey Medical's average media sentiment score of 1.93 beat Lipocine's score of 0.23 indicating that Journey Medical is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Journey Medical
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive
Lipocine
0 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Journey Medical$57.77M1.69-$3.85M-$0.94-4.98
Lipocine$7.92M3.29-$16.35M-$0.76-6.41

Summary

Lipocine beats Journey Medical on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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LPCN vs. The Competition

MetricLipocinePharmaceutical IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$26.05M$6.57B$5.14B$9.08B
Dividend YieldN/A3.00%5.09%4.23%
P/E Ratio-6.4110.5990.0517.18
Price / Sales3.29195.801,117.00116.99
Price / CashN/A57.1642.9637.86
Price / Book1.275.094.784.78
Net Income-$16.35M$151.83M$120.31M$225.60M
7 Day Performance-2.99%-2.13%-1.92%-1.23%
1 Month Performance-2.60%-3.10%11.50%3.36%
1 Year Performance66.48%11.54%30.59%16.60%

Lipocine Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
LPCN
Lipocine
1.5291 of 5 stars
$4.87
+4.1%
$10.00
+105.3%
+66.5%$26.05M$7.92M-6.4110News Coverage
DERM
Journey Medical
2.5422 of 5 stars
$5.04
-1.0%
$9.38
+86.0%
N/A$105.29M$79.18M-5.4190
ANRO
Alto Neuroscience
3.2643 of 5 stars
$3.83
flat
$20.00
+422.2%
N/A$103.30M$210,000.000.00N/AGap Up
IMUX
Immunic
2.773 of 5 stars
$1.15
+1.3%
$11.80
+930.6%
-28.6%$103.14MN/A-0.9270Positive News
SKYE
Skye Bioscience
2.1841 of 5 stars
$3.38
+0.9%
$18.67
+452.3%
-11.8%$102.54MN/A0.0011News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Down
MNOV
MediciNova
2.1626 of 5 stars
$2.09
-0.5%
$9.00
+330.6%
+46.6%$102.51M$1M-9.9510Analyst Forecast
Positive News
CNTX
Context Therapeutics
2.9747 of 5 stars
$1.35
-2.9%
$6.80
+403.7%
-8.1%$101.25MN/A-1.477Positive News
Gap Down
AVTX
Avalo Therapeutics
3.7112 of 5 stars
$9.74
+5.5%
N/A-25.8%$101.24M$820,000.000.0040Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
Positive News
PYXS
Pyxis Oncology
2.1397 of 5 stars
$1.67
+3.1%
$10.00
+498.8%
+1.2%$99.32MN/A-1.5760Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
Positive News
IPSC
Century Therapeutics
1.8159 of 5 stars
$1.16
-4.9%
$11.60
+900.0%
-52.8%$98.63M$2.68M-0.66170Gap Down
High Trading Volume
CLLS
Cellectis
3.1716 of 5 stars
$1.76
-0.2%
$7.00
+298.6%
-51.3%$97.62M$9.19M-1.35290

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This page (NASDAQ:LPCN) was last updated on 12/22/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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