NITE vs. PRME, PLX, IKT, CVM, ZIVO, IZTC, CRTX, JATT, ALVR, and FNCH
Should you be buying Nightstar Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nightstar Therapeutics include Prime Medicine (PRME), Protalix BioTherapeutics (PLX), Inhibikase Therapeutics (IKT), CEL-SCI (CVM), ZIVO Bioscience (ZIVO), Invizyne Technologies (IZTC), Cortexyme (CRTX), JATT Acquisition (JATT), AlloVir (ALVR), and Finch Therapeutics Group (FNCH). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Nightstar Therapeutics vs. Its Competitors
Prime Medicine (NYSE:PRME) and Nightstar Therapeutics (NASDAQ:NITE) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings and risk.
Nightstar Therapeutics' return on equity of -30.89% beat Prime Medicine's return on equity.
Nightstar Therapeutics has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Prime Medicine. Nightstar Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Prime Medicine, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Prime Medicine has a beta of 2.38, suggesting that its stock price is 138% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nightstar Therapeutics has a beta of 2.84, suggesting that its stock price is 184% more volatile than the S&P 500.
70.4% of Prime Medicine shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.8% of Nightstar Therapeutics shares are owned by institutional investors. 22.7% of Prime Medicine shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Prime Medicine currently has a consensus price target of $8.92, suggesting a potential upside of 118.28%. Given Prime Medicine's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Prime Medicine is more favorable than Nightstar Therapeutics.
In the previous week, Prime Medicine had 3 more articles in the media than Nightstar Therapeutics. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Prime Medicine and 0 mentions for Nightstar Therapeutics. Prime Medicine's average media sentiment score of 0.26 beat Nightstar Therapeutics' score of 0.00 indicating that Prime Medicine is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Prime Medicine beats Nightstar Therapeutics on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:NITE) was last updated on 9/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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