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$1.21 0.00 (0.00%)
(As of 12/20/2024 05:31 PM ET)

NCNA vs. MRNS, PMCB, AWH, SLGL, WENA, IPA, IMNN, KZIA, CRVO, and KPRX

Should you be buying NuCana stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NuCana include Marinus Pharmaceuticals (MRNS), PharmaCyte Biotech (PMCB), Aspira Women's Health (AWH), Sol-Gel Technologies (SLGL), ANEW Medical (WENA), ImmunoPrecise Antibodies (IPA), Imunon (IMNN), Kazia Therapeutics (KZIA), CervoMed (CRVO), and Kiora Pharmaceuticals (KPRX). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

NuCana vs.

NuCana (NASDAQ:NCNA) and Marinus Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:MRNS) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, risk, community ranking and media sentiment.

Marinus Pharmaceuticals received 186 more outperform votes than NuCana when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.65% of users gave NuCana an outperform vote while only 67.54% of users gave Marinus Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
NuCanaOutperform Votes
251
67.65%
Underperform Votes
120
32.35%
Marinus PharmaceuticalsOutperform Votes
437
67.54%
Underperform Votes
210
32.46%

NuCana presently has a consensus price target of $25.00, indicating a potential upside of 1,966.12%. Marinus Pharmaceuticals has a consensus price target of $4.79, indicating a potential upside of 1,980.75%. Given Marinus Pharmaceuticals' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Marinus Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than NuCana.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
NuCana
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50
Marinus Pharmaceuticals
0 Sell rating(s)
8 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.36

In the previous week, Marinus Pharmaceuticals had 1 more articles in the media than NuCana. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Marinus Pharmaceuticals and 0 mentions for NuCana. NuCana's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Marinus Pharmaceuticals'average media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
NuCana Neutral
Marinus Pharmaceuticals Neutral

44.0% of NuCana shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.8% of Marinus Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. 31.2% of NuCana shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.5% of Marinus Pharmaceuticals shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

NuCana has a beta of 0.94, indicating that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Marinus Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 1.25, indicating that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.

NuCana has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Marinus Pharmaceuticals. NuCana is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Marinus Pharmaceuticals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
NuCanaN/AN/A-$34.37M-$10.48-0.12
Marinus Pharmaceuticals$30.99M0.41-$141.40M-$2.47-0.09

NuCana has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Marinus Pharmaceuticals' net margin of -446.48%. NuCana's return on equity of -314.47% beat Marinus Pharmaceuticals' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
NuCanaN/A -314.47% -112.60%
Marinus Pharmaceuticals -446.48%-7,831.35%-120.74%

Summary

Marinus Pharmaceuticals beats NuCana on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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NCNA vs. The Competition

MetricNuCanaPharmaceutical IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$3.20M$6.57B$5.14B$9.08B
Dividend YieldN/A3.00%5.09%4.23%
P/E Ratio-0.1210.5990.0517.20
Price / SalesN/A196.061,117.09117.04
Price / CashN/A57.1643.1037.85
Price / Book0.145.094.784.78
Net Income-$34.37M$151.83M$120.31M$225.60M
7 Day Performance-4.72%-2.14%-1.92%-1.23%
1 Month Performance-1.63%-4.56%13.65%0.46%
1 Year Performance-81.02%8.87%28.34%15.24%

NuCana Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
NCNA
NuCana
2.587 of 5 stars
$1.21
flat
$25.00
+1,966.1%
-83.8%$3.20MN/A-0.1230Gap Up
MRNS
Marinus Pharmaceuticals
4.3127 of 5 stars
$0.23
-11.3%
$4.79
+1,954.0%
-97.6%$12.86M$31.47M-0.10110Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
PMCB
PharmaCyte Biotech
0.4225 of 5 stars
$1.67
-2.9%
N/A-24.8%$12.83MN/A2.612Earnings Report
AWH
Aspira Women's Health
1.218 of 5 stars
$0.76
+1.4%
$4.40
+478.9%
-69.7%$12.67M$9.15M-0.62110Analyst Forecast
SLGL
Sol-Gel Technologies
2.4264 of 5 stars
$0.45
-5.9%
$5.00
+1,008.2%
-66.5%$12.57M$1.55M-1.3650
WENA
ANEW Medical
N/A$0.73
-0.5%
N/AN/A$12.51MN/A0.00N/AGap Up
IPA
ImmunoPrecise Antibodies
2.9257 of 5 stars
$0.42
+4.5%
$5.00
+1,086.0%
-69.5%$12.16M$24.07M-0.5280News Coverage
IMNN
Imunon
2.3546 of 5 stars
$0.84
-1.1%
$20.50
+2,354.8%
+9.2%$12.11M$500,000.00-0.4533Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
Gap Up
KZIA
Kazia Therapeutics
1.7318 of 5 stars
$3.58
+0.8%
$20.00
+458.7%
-21.6%$11.92M$2.31M0.0012Gap Up
CRVO
CervoMed
2.2198 of 5 stars
$1.90
flat
$42.00
+2,110.5%
-67.1%$11.72M$7.14M0.004Analyst Downgrade
Analyst Revision
High Trading Volume
KPRX
Kiora Pharmaceuticals
2.1064 of 5 stars
$3.83
+15.4%
$10.00
+161.1%
-32.5%$11.49M$16M0.0010Positive News
Gap Up

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