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Pieris Pharmaceuticals (PIRS) Competitors

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$15.39 -0.62 (-3.87%)
(As of 11:00 AM ET)

PIRS vs. FGEN, CASI, ME, CMRX, CLSD, EPIX, IMAB, PDSB, ONCY, and FBLG

Should you be buying Pieris Pharmaceuticals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pieris Pharmaceuticals include FibroGen (FGEN), CASI Pharmaceuticals (CASI), 23andMe (ME), Chimerix (CMRX), Clearside Biomedical (CLSD), ESSA Pharma (EPIX), I-Mab (IMAB), PDS Biotechnology (PDSB), Oncolytics Biotech (ONCY), and FibroBiologics (FBLG). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.

Pieris Pharmaceuticals vs.

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

Pieris Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FibroGen has a beta of 0.72, indicating that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Pieris Pharmaceuticals has a net margin of -39.71% compared to FibroGen's net margin of -67.66%. 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% -80.93% -59.55%
FibroGen -67.66%N/A -36.17%

FibroGen received 65 more outperform votes than Pieris Pharmaceuticals when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.71% of users gave FibroGen an outperform vote while only 60.30% of users gave Pieris Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Pieris PharmaceuticalsOutperform Votes
278
60.30%
Underperform Votes
183
39.70%
FibroGenOutperform Votes
343
60.71%
Underperform Votes
222
39.29%

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$42.81M0.47-$24.54M-$12.10-1.27
FibroGen$147.75M0.25-$284.23M-$1.23-0.30

In the previous week, FibroGen had 3 more articles in the media than Pieris Pharmaceuticals. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for FibroGen and 2 mentions for Pieris Pharmaceuticals. FibroGen's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Pieris Pharmaceuticals' score of 0.21 indicating that FibroGen is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Pieris Pharmaceuticals
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
FibroGen
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

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)
0.00
FibroGen
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

40.1% of Pieris Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.7% of FibroGen shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.4% of Pieris Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of FibroGen 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.

Summary

FibroGen beats Pieris Pharmaceuticals on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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PIRS vs. The Competition

MetricPieris PharmaceuticalsPharmaceutical IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$20.32M$6.48B$5.08B$8.80B
Dividend YieldN/A8.11%5.02%4.07%
P/E Ratio-1.274.9791.2813.60
Price / Sales0.47371.451,226.2187.40
Price / CashN/A52.5939.4536.27
Price / Book1.2510.306.906.33
Net Income-$24.54M$153.61M$118.83M$225.93M
7 Day Performance-3.51%-1.73%-1.92%-0.96%
1 Month Performance-8.39%-7.26%-3.75%1.06%
1 Year Performance-11.35%31.10%31.37%26.59%

Pieris Pharmaceuticals Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PIRS
Pieris Pharmaceuticals
1.6293 of 5 stars
$15.39
-3.9%
N/A-10.4%$20.32M$42.81M-1.27140Analyst Upgrade
News Coverage
FGEN
FibroGen
2.4563 of 5 stars
$0.37
+5.3%
N/A-33.8%$37.12M$147.75M-0.28486Analyst Revision
Gap Down
CASI
CASI Pharmaceuticals
3.802 of 5 stars
$5.25
-0.2%
$6.00
+14.3%
+0.4%$81.17M$33.88M0.00180
ME
23andMe
1.237 of 5 stars
$3.30
+4.8%
$9.40
+184.8%
-82.6%$80.88M$219.64M-0.13770
CMRX
Chimerix
4.521 of 5 stars
$0.90
+2.1%
$8.50
+845.7%
-12.0%$80.84M$320,000.000.0072Analyst Forecast
CLSD
Clearside Biomedical
3.0181 of 5 stars
$1.05
flat
$5.33
+407.9%
+8.1%$79.63M$8.23M-2.3330Analyst Revision
EPIX
ESSA Pharma
2.7977 of 5 stars
$1.79
+3.5%
$11.67
+551.8%
-68.0%$79.42MN/A-2.7950
IMAB
I-Mab
2.5473 of 5 stars
$0.94
-4.0%
$8.00
+750.2%
-37.6%$76.63M$3.89M0.0034
PDSB
PDS Biotechnology
1.8427 of 5 stars
$2.04
+0.5%
$12.33
+504.6%
-67.9%$76.32MN/A0.0020
ONCY
Oncolytics Biotech
1.2173 of 5 stars
$0.99
-0.9%
$4.00
+304.0%
-37.2%$76.30MN/A0.0030Analyst Revision
FBLG
FibroBiologics
1.7478 of 5 stars
$2.20
-1.8%
$12.00
+445.5%
N/A$76.25MN/A0.0010

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This page (NASDAQ:PIRS) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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