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Spruce Biosciences (SPRB) Competitors

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SPRB vs. CLSD, CMRX, PDSB, IMAB, EPIX, AVTE, HOWL, VTGN, ZIVO, and OVID

Should you be buying Spruce Biosciences stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Spruce Biosciences include Clearside Biomedical (CLSD), Chimerix (CMRX), PDS Biotechnology (PDSB), I-Mab (IMAB), ESSA Pharma (EPIX), Aerovate Therapeutics (AVTE), Werewolf Therapeutics (HOWL), Vistagen Therapeutics (VTGN), ZIVO Bioscience (ZIVO), and Ovid Therapeutics (OVID). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

Spruce Biosciences vs.

Spruce Biosciences (NASDAQ:SPRB) and Clearside Biomedical (NASDAQ:CLSD) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations and profitability.

Clearside Biomedical has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Spruce Biosciences. Clearside Biomedical is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Spruce Biosciences, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Spruce Biosciences$10.09M2.01-$47.92M-$0.94-0.52
Clearside Biomedical$8.23M9.68-$32.49M-$0.45-2.33

Clearside Biomedical received 329 more outperform votes than Spruce Biosciences when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.52% of users gave Clearside Biomedical an outperform vote while only 60.00% of users gave Spruce Biosciences an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Spruce BiosciencesOutperform Votes
39
60.00%
Underperform Votes
26
40.00%
Clearside BiomedicalOutperform Votes
368
67.52%
Underperform Votes
177
32.48%

Spruce Biosciences has a beta of 2.36, meaning that its share price is 136% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Clearside Biomedical has a beta of 2.33, meaning that its share price is 133% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Clearside Biomedical had 12 more articles in the media than Spruce Biosciences. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Clearside Biomedical and 0 mentions for Spruce Biosciences. Clearside Biomedical's average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat Spruce Biosciences' score of -0.07 indicating that Clearside Biomedical is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Spruce Biosciences Neutral
Clearside Biomedical Positive

Spruce Biosciences currently has a consensus target price of $4.00, indicating a potential upside of 716.33%. Clearside Biomedical has a consensus target price of $5.33, indicating a potential upside of 407.94%. Given Spruce Biosciences' higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Spruce Biosciences is more favorable than Clearside Biomedical.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Spruce Biosciences
0 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.25
Clearside Biomedical
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Clearside Biomedical has a net margin of -413.83% compared to Spruce Biosciences' net margin of -555.23%. Clearside Biomedical's return on equity of 0.00% beat Spruce Biosciences' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Spruce Biosciences-555.23% -62.10% -47.49%
Clearside Biomedical -413.83%N/A -92.90%

91.7% of Spruce Biosciences shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.8% of Clearside Biomedical shares are held by institutional investors. 9.1% of Spruce Biosciences shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.2% of Clearside Biomedical 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.

Summary

Clearside Biomedical beats Spruce Biosciences on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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SPRB vs. The Competition

MetricSpruce BiosciencesPharmaceutical IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$20.06M$6.48B$5.05B$8.87B
Dividend YieldN/A8.12%4.97%4.06%
P/E Ratio-0.525.5697.3414.18
Price / Sales2.01348.141,218.4289.42
Price / CashN/A22.1533.5132.79
Price / Book0.397.885.805.12
Net Income-$47.92M$153.61M$119.07M$225.99M
7 Day Performance-5.95%-2.00%-1.83%-1.32%
1 Month Performance-10.37%-7.47%-3.64%0.60%
1 Year Performance-64.23%31.80%31.62%26.23%

Spruce Biosciences Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SPRB
Spruce Biosciences
2.9724 of 5 stars
$0.49
flat
$4.00
+716.3%
-64.0%$20.06M$10.09M-0.5220
CLSD
Clearside Biomedical
3.0244 of 5 stars
$1.05
+1.9%
$5.33
+407.9%
+8.1%$79.63M$8.23M-2.2930Analyst Revision
CMRX
Chimerix
4.5147 of 5 stars
$0.88
flat
$8.50
+865.9%
-12.0%$79.15M$320,000.00-0.9472Analyst Forecast
PDSB
PDS Biotechnology
1.825 of 5 stars
$2.03
-3.3%
$12.33
+509.1%
-67.9%$78.37MN/A0.0020
IMAB
I-Mab
2.5456 of 5 stars
$0.98
+3.2%
$8.00
+716.3%
-37.6%$77.61M$3.89M0.0034Gap Up
EPIX
ESSA Pharma
2.7825 of 5 stars
$1.73
-0.6%
$11.67
+574.4%
-68.0%$77.20MN/A0.0050
AVTE
Aerovate Therapeutics
1.7152 of 5 stars
$2.66
-0.4%
$2.25
-15.4%
-81.7%$76.81MN/A-0.8951Positive News
HOWL
Werewolf Therapeutics
3.4178 of 5 stars
$1.64
-1.8%
$12.00
+631.7%
-33.6%$74.42M$19.94M0.0040Analyst Forecast
VTGN
Vistagen Therapeutics
3.774 of 5 stars
$2.61
-2.2%
$15.00
+474.7%
-25.4%$74.34M$1.06M0.0040Positive News
ZIVO
ZIVO Bioscience
N/A$20.96
flat
N/A+1,668.8%$74.33M$30,000.000.0010Negative News
OVID
Ovid Therapeutics
4.4194 of 5 stars
$1.04
+1.0%
$4.04
+288.5%
-68.5%$73.14M$390,000.000.0060Analyst Revision
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This page (NASDAQ:SPRB) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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