LTRN vs. BTAI, LPTX, GRTS, PRPH, TNXP, ATAI, ENTA, XBIT, IMMP, and ME
Should you be buying Lantern Pharma stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lantern Pharma include BioXcel Therapeutics (BTAI), Leap Therapeutics (LPTX), Gritstone bio (GRTS), ProPhase Labs (PRPH), Tonix Pharmaceuticals (TNXP), Atai Life Sciences (ATAI), Enanta Pharmaceuticals (ENTA), XBiotech (XBIT), Immutep (IMMP), and 23andMe (ME). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
BioXcel Therapeutics (NASDAQ:BTAI) and Lantern Pharma (NASDAQ:LTRN) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, profitability and community ranking.
BioXcel Therapeutics currently has a consensus target price of $16.71, indicating a potential upside of 833.76%. Given Lantern Pharma's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe BioXcel Therapeutics is more favorable than Lantern Pharma.
Lantern Pharma has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Lantern Pharma's net margin of -8,715.72%. BioXcel Therapeutics' return on equity of -41.17% beat Lantern Pharma's return on equity.
BioXcel Therapeutics received 226 more outperform votes than Lantern Pharma when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.00% of users gave Lantern Pharma an outperform vote while only 67.23% of users gave BioXcel Therapeutics an outperform vote.
BioXcel Therapeutics has a beta of 0.43, meaning that its stock price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lantern Pharma has a beta of 1.57, meaning that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
30.7% of BioXcel Therapeutics shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.6% of Lantern Pharma shares are owned by institutional investors. 35.8% of BioXcel Therapeutics shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.9% of Lantern Pharma shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Lantern Pharma has lower revenue, but higher earnings than BioXcel Therapeutics. Lantern Pharma is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BioXcel Therapeutics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Lantern Pharma had 2 more articles in the media than BioXcel Therapeutics. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Lantern Pharma and 4 mentions for BioXcel Therapeutics. BioXcel Therapeutics' average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Lantern Pharma's score of 0.69 indicating that Lantern Pharma is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Lantern Pharma beats BioXcel Therapeutics on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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