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Pieris Pharmaceuticals (PIRS) Competitors

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$17.30
+0.05 (+0.29%)
(As of 11/1/2024 ET)

PIRS vs. FGEN, BYSI, KZIA, CUE, ALRN, PLX, CHRS, IOBT, CMRX, and PMVP

Should you be buying Pieris Pharmaceuticals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pieris Pharmaceuticals include FibroGen (FGEN), BeyondSpring (BYSI), Kazia Therapeutics (KZIA), Cue Biopharma (CUE), Aileron Therapeutics (ALRN), Protalix BioTherapeutics (PLX), Coherus BioSciences (CHRS), IO Biotech (IOBT), Chimerix (CMRX), and PMV Pharmaceuticals (PMVP). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.

Pieris Pharmaceuticals vs.

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

FibroGen received 65 more outperform votes than Pieris Pharmaceuticals when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.03% of users gave FibroGen an outperform vote while only 60.70% of users gave Pieris Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Pieris PharmaceuticalsOutperform Votes
278
60.70%
Underperform Votes
180
39.30%
FibroGenOutperform Votes
343
61.03%
Underperform Votes
219
38.97%

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Pieris Pharmaceuticals
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
N/A
FibroGen
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Pieris Pharmaceuticals$20.87M1.09-$24.54M-$18.71-0.92
FibroGen$147.75M0.22-$284.23M-$1.71-0.19

Pieris Pharmaceuticals has a net margin of -39.71% compared to FibroGen's net margin of -96.84%. FibroGen's return on equity of 0.00% beat Pieris Pharmaceuticals' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Pieris Pharmaceuticals-39.71% -101.29% -65.00%
FibroGen -96.84%N/A -40.37%

Pieris Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.67, suggesting that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FibroGen has a beta of 0.7, suggesting that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.

40.1% of Pieris Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.7% of FibroGen shares are held by institutional investors. 8.9% of Pieris Pharmaceuticals shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of FibroGen shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Pieris Pharmaceuticals and Pieris Pharmaceuticals both had 1 articles in the media. FibroGen's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Pieris Pharmaceuticals' score of -0.18 indicating that FibroGen is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Pieris Pharmaceuticals Neutral
FibroGen Neutral

Summary

FibroGen beats Pieris Pharmaceuticals on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

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PIRS vs. The Competition

MetricPieris PharmaceuticalsPharmaceutical IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$22.84M$7.02B$5.39B$8.53B
Dividend YieldN/A7.96%5.13%4.14%
P/E Ratio-0.929.47113.8115.12
Price / Sales1.09381.571,483.2593.03
Price / CashN/A47.3339.6434.05
Price / Book0.805.324.665.02
Net Income-$24.54M$153.56M$119.06M$225.46M
7 Day Performance2.14%0.12%0.79%0.37%
1 Month Performance4.53%15.23%5.65%3.57%
1 Year Performance-16.83%41.16%36.76%29.42%

Pieris Pharmaceuticals Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PIRS
Pieris Pharmaceuticals
2.3762 of 5 stars
$17.30
+0.3%
N/A-14.4%$22.84M$20.87M-0.92140
FGEN
FibroGen
2.3054 of 5 stars
$0.30
+1.0%
N/A-41.7%$30.03M$173.82M-0.18486Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↓
BYSI
BeyondSpring
N/A$2.28
+3.6%
N/A+120.4%$88.99M$1.88M0.0080Positive News
KZIA
Kazia Therapeutics
1.6853 of 5 stars
$5.41
+16.1%
$20.00
+269.7%
+35.7%$88.41M$20,000.000.0012Gap Down
CUE
Cue Biopharma
4.6549 of 5 stars
$1.81
+1.7%
$5.00
+176.2%
-24.8%$88.04M$8.30M-1.8760Positive News
Gap Up
ALRN
Aileron Therapeutics
3.8501 of 5 stars
$4.05
+0.7%
$19.00
+369.1%
+200.9%$87.54MN/A-1.259Upcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
PLX
Protalix BioTherapeutics
1.9151 of 5 stars
$1.17
+3.5%
$10.00
+754.7%
-23.1%$86.04M$65.49M-5.85200Gap Up
CHRS
Coherus BioSciences
3.8143 of 5 stars
$0.75
+3.9%
$7.13
+850.1%
-77.4%$86.03M$308.13M-1.87246Upcoming Earnings
IOBT
IO Biotech
3.3411 of 5 stars
$1.30
-2.3%
$9.33
+617.9%
+36.8%$85.65MN/A-0.9030Short Interest ↓
Positive News
Gap Up
CMRX
Chimerix
4.1022 of 5 stars
$0.95
+1.1%
$8.50
+794.7%
+3.1%$85.15M$144,000.00-1.0072Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
PMVP
PMV Pharmaceuticals
2.7396 of 5 stars
$1.65
-0.6%
$5.75
+248.5%
-17.7%$85.01MN/A-1.7050

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This page (NASDAQ:PIRS) was last updated on 11/2/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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