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PEPG vs. DERM, OGI, LYEL, SCPH, ACRS, PRQR, RAPT, GLSI, FDMT, and NKTX

Should you be buying PepGen stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PepGen include Journey Medical (DERM), Organigram (OGI), Lyell Immunopharma (LYEL), scPharmaceuticals (SCPH), Aclaris Therapeutics (ACRS), ProQR Therapeutics (PRQR), RAPT Therapeutics (RAPT), Greenwich LifeSciences (GLSI), 4D Molecular Therapeutics (FDMT), and Nkarta (NKTX). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

PepGen vs.

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

PepGen has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Journey Medical's net margin of -31.74%. PepGen's return on equity of -60.17% beat Journey Medical's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
PepGenN/A -60.17% -48.88%
Journey Medical -31.74%-132.10%-26.90%

PepGen presently has a consensus target price of $10.33, suggesting a potential upside of 676.94%. Journey Medical has a consensus target price of $9.88, suggesting a potential upside of 58.00%. Given PepGen's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe PepGen is more favorable than Journey Medical.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
PepGen
1 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.33
Journey Medical
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.20

58.0% of PepGen shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.3% of Journey Medical shares are held by institutional investors. 4.6% of PepGen shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.2% of Journey Medical shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

PepGen has a beta of 1.42, indicating that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Journey Medical has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, PepGen had 1 more articles in the media than Journey Medical. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for PepGen and 1 mentions for Journey Medical. PepGen's average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat Journey Medical's score of -1.00 indicating that PepGen is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
PepGen Positive
Journey Medical Negative

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
PepGenN/AN/A-$78.63M-$2.84-0.47
Journey Medical$56.13M2.57-$3.85M-$0.74-8.45

PepGen received 14 more outperform votes than Journey Medical when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 85.71% of users gave Journey Medical an outperform vote while only 80.00% of users gave PepGen an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
PepGenOutperform Votes
20
80.00%
Underperform Votes
5
20.00%
Journey MedicalOutperform Votes
6
85.71%
Underperform Votes
1
14.29%

Summary

PepGen and Journey Medical tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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PEPG vs. The Competition

MetricPepGenPharmaceutical IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$43.48M$6.45B$5.30B$7.34B
Dividend YieldN/A3.23%5.12%4.30%
P/E Ratio-0.456.8921.8017.78
Price / SalesN/A231.03379.9697.74
Price / CashN/A65.6738.2634.64
Price / Book0.295.916.443.97
Net Income-$78.63M$142.72M$3.21B$247.65M
7 Day Performance17.70%4.38%2.85%1.80%
1 Month Performance-38.99%-12.76%-8.64%-6.98%
1 Year Performance-88.77%-9.69%11.38%1.34%

PepGen Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PEPG
PepGen
2.6914 of 5 stars
$1.33
+8.1%
$10.33
+676.9%
-88.4%$43.48MN/A-0.4530
DERM
Journey Medical
2.213 of 5 stars
$6.21
+3.0%
$9.88
+59.0%
+61.9%$143.48M$56.13M-6.6190Short Interest ↑
OGI
Organigram
0.5627 of 5 stars
$1.04
+1.0%
N/A-41.5%$131.31M$166.12M-2.74860
LYEL
Lyell Immunopharma
3.1963 of 5 stars
$0.44
+1.4%
$1.00
+124.9%
-81.8%$131.26M$61,000.00-0.56270Analyst Forecast
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SCPH
scPharmaceuticals
3.7392 of 5 stars
$2.58
+11.2%
$14.00
+442.6%
-41.9%$129.73M$36.33M-1.3630Short Interest ↓
Gap Down
ACRS
Aclaris Therapeutics
1.8451 of 5 stars
$1.18
+2.6%
$11.67
+888.7%
-7.3%$127.34M$18.72M-2.27100Gap Down
PRQR
ProQR Therapeutics
2.375 of 5 stars
$1.18
+5.4%
$9.50
+705.1%
-40.0%$124.15M$18.91M-3.69180Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
RAPT
RAPT Therapeutics
3.6138 of 5 stars
$0.93
+7.2%
$4.00
+332.0%
-90.2%$122.24M$1.53M-0.3380Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
GLSI
Greenwich LifeSciences
1.597 of 5 stars
$9.28
-5.9%
$38.00
+309.5%
-31.4%$121.99MN/A-11.603Earnings Report
Upcoming Earnings
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
FDMT
4D Molecular Therapeutics
2.7831 of 5 stars
$2.78
+5.7%
$26.71
+860.9%
-87.9%$121.77M$37,000.00-0.98120Analyst Revision
News Coverage
NKTX
Nkarta
2.8595 of 5 stars
$1.70
+7.9%
$14.86
+773.9%
-77.0%$120.63MN/A-0.90140Short Interest ↓
Gap Down

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This page (NASDAQ:PEPG) was last updated on 4/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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